70 tips how why when to slow down to enjoy life

In this article you will learn the following

-70+ Tips on how to slow-down in your life - to be happier, more productive, more successful, to enjoy life and to have fulfilling relationships

Why to slow-down When to slow down and How to slow down - How to go faster by slowing down - how to be more productive and more accomplished and more successful by slowing down.

Want to enjoy a better quality of life and accomplish larger-bigger-exceptionally better goals - try slowing-down.

When we live in the fast-lane like a formula1 driver - we actually start living superficially - we stop connecting with others on deeper level, we lose our persona and our self-identity and we can no longer see the beauty around us.

Instead you may find your life full of stress, tension, anger, irritations and depressions etc.

Many of you have acquired the masters in the science and art of rushing - you may find yourself hurrying to get somewhere all the time - irrespective of whether or not there is some emergency.

Even while eating or flying or talking or in the loo - you are on your laptop or checking something on your mobile.

In many situations - slowing-down, putting a break in your mad-rush every day routine and letting-go - can help you make better decisions, connect with people deeper, get-insight into what you are missing, have meaningful and joyous experiences, improve your quality of life and create very powerful outcomes - to name a few benefits - besides improving your mental-emotional well-being and preventing burnout.

We need to slow down - when we are putting unnatural hours, efforts, focus and energy to satisfy the need to do more to keep up with the pace, the competition and the world.

If this is happening with you right now - please understand - you need to calibrate and readjust - in how you perceive your work, your methods, your goals and what you feel should go-about in accomplishing whatever that you are focusing-on.

When you learn and practice slowing-down correctly and with clarity of purpose as to why you are trying to slow-down- initially you may feel that you are not making any progress or that you are not putting the right-efforts.

Initially yes you may actually become slower [when you have got on the grip of the things and techniques] - but you will go further and faster in the long run on sustainable basis.

How would you know that you need to slow down? - ask yourself the following four questions

• a.Have you been struggling to fit too many projects, goals and tasks every day - and you are frantically rushing-from one urgent thing to the next - most of the time.
• b.Do you also feel - as if you are on tenterhook
• c.You are feeling-overwhelmed and are unable to enjoy the life at all
• d.Do you find your tempers and self-control becoming very fragile

Learning to slow-down is not easy - but putting into practice is even more difficult - as your body and the mind won't get the adrenalin-pumping.

The biggest obstacle and the enemy in slowing-down- is you yourself - your own mindset, your social-conditioning and your habits.

The most common and damaging perception that most of us have got drilled-conditioned-programmed into us is that - we need to be busy - even if that means creating and projecting busyness - because beingbusy is better.

70+ Tips on how to slow-down in your life - to be happier, more productive, more successful, to enjoy life and to have fulfilling relationships

• I.Given randomly as thinking while typing - what came to mind - and as a result jumping from a point to anther then coming back to that point again.
• II.All the tips where it sounds like preaching is given like it because all of them have detailed do it yourself simple action-plan articles among the 900+ blogs in both of my websites along with actionable tips which are self-explanatory
• 1.Create a JOMO attitude - joy of missing out
• 2.Practice problem-solving-mediation - where you meditate by sitting quietly and just going deeper and deeper into understanding the problem and exploring what possibilities exists and what you can create based on options available
• 3.Practice get in touch and understanding yourself meditation
• 4.Learn to enjoy few basic things that you might not pay any attention in your busy schedule - like relishing your tea-coffee, enjoying the sun-shine, savoring the taste, getting relaxed through aromas, watching the sun-rise in the morning etc.
• 5.Start appreciating the beauty all-around you
• 6.Wake up earlier - to have enough time plus some more - to go through your day smoothly
• 7.Postpone taking decision on crucial matters - then create SWOT and pros-cons
• 8.Take longer to think-through the advantages and disadvantages
• 9.Learn to prioritize - by identifying what are the most important basic things that you need - like happiness, health, relationships, and the goals you are passionate about accomplishing
• 10. Identify all those activities which don't add value to your life or simply don't need to be
• 11. Stop going through the motion simply for the sake of doing it
• 12. Stop doing the low-payoff activities and start spending your 90%+ time - on taking action on your highest of high payoff goals
• 13. Create a silence-zone as well as silence-time - turn-off your TV, music and or any noise
• 14. Start paying attention-to and listen-actively when you are with someone
• 15. Listen to understand and not to respond
• 16. Use more writing-pad and pen - to doodle and make list and write in long-hand
• 17. Schedule time to do nothing on purpose
• 18. Change your environment - go and meet new people - experience new cultures - taste new cuisine - travel to untraveled paths
• 19. Create space in your house by giving-away things that you don't use but can be very useful to others
• 20. Create a schedule to fit-in your to-do list - with enough buffers and no-activity time-periods
• 21. Start becoming assertive
• 22. Start practicing NO to all time-wasters as well as mood-stealers
• 23. Start spending more time with the people you love
• 24. Get rid of all the toxic and negative people from your life
• 25. Add value to others by becoming valuable yourself
• 26. Start using your 5 senses and develop your 6th one - become a great observer
• 27. Stop multi-tasking - start doing one thing at a time
• 28. Manage your finances well -save more - spend less
• 29. Buy only from your savings - stop going for credit-purchase
• 30. Create your no-compromise list - where you will never reduce your standards, your benchmarks, your quality and your output
• 31. Keep your focus, needs and wants - simple and clear
• 32. Know why you want something - this why is very important
• 33. Focus on working-on, using, applying, practicing and strengthening the basics of success, happiness and relationships
• 34. Learn to stop trying to do everything on your to-do-list all at once
• 35. Start small - taking one small action and then going for another
• 36. Always break huge-overwhelming goals - into small-small daily action-steps
• 37. Avoid trying to accomplish too-many things all at once
• 38. Focus on quality and excellence rather than wasting time on perfecting one thing and missing most other
• 39. Don't accept additional projects if your schedule is already tight
• 40. Manage your energies as well as time
• 41. Spend time outside in nature
• 42. Take breaks-vacations-holidays - with family and loved ones
• 43. Time to time - make yourself comfortable by - disconnecting all the gadgets for few hours to few days
• 44. Create absolutely-no-social-media week or at least days
• 45. Become unreachable to the world - be available only yourself and your loved ones - once in a while
• 46. Use the technology - to enjoy then freedom and the ease it gives you - but create strict boundaries to ensure it only adds value - and does not start running and ruining your life
• 47. Let someone else go first through the check-out counter and at the security-check etc.
• 48. Boost your creativity by choosing to become bored
• 49. Help others by practicing random acts of kindness
• 50. If you have already build a secured financial and other important basic-nest - the go-out and enjoy
• 51. Engage in activities that forces you to participate at a slower pace - like chess and Sudoku
• 52. Play physical team-games
• 53. Create opportunities to have fun while you work
• 54. Create new experiences - try new things - experiments
• 55. Break your routine - time to time
• 56. Take challenging tasks that makes you learn a new skill
• 57. Make learning a fun-creating and relaxing habit - enjoy learning new things
• 58. Ensure that you pay attention to only what is meaningful
• 59. Stop comparing with others
• 60. Do not compete - when there is no competition
• 61. Operate out of your area of influence and control - stop creating tension for yourself by bothering about what is beyond your control at present
• 62. Start enjoying the moment
• 63. Feel your pain and negative emotions fully
• 64. Create and set healthy emotional boundaries
• 65. Learn to manage your stress if you can't reduce it
• 66. Stop impressing others - start impressing yourself
• 67. Be happy in other's happiness and success
• 68. Find a hobby -try something new - which excites you and taps into your creativity and forces you to stretch you beyond your capabilities and endurance levels
• 69. Practice progressive muscle relaxation from head to toes while paying attention to your breath
• 70. Listen to music which makes you feel good
• 71. Move your body - dance to a tune
• 72. Read a book that makes you visualize and captures your attention

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