Yes I had that too working in healthcare innovation, loved the buzz, but the impact on your health is real! 5 years on slow living & creativity works better.
Enjoyed the read. Thank you. I too seem to always want to rush around even when those extra few minutes wont mean much in the end. Living in a country which doesnt believe in rushing around and is doing very well without that sense of urgency always for every task is helping me try n reign in the beast.
The rush addiction is real! I often feel like I need to make work - to write, to finish a project - quickly. Get it done, get it done now. But then I’ll be done and surely the point in the first place is the doing of it…..
I’m SO happy to be well in the other side of all this rushing & doing. At 65 I’m learning, practicing, feeling my way into BEING. It’s ridiculously challenging ! Enjoy Art College, I went to Bristol, a third of a life ago, and have been contemplating signing up to a local textile course. I love your writing, it’s quite inspirational.
I’m almost a year into freelancing after 20 years of working as a journalist for regional news sites/newspapers and I’m still finding it hard not to want to get every idea I think of done immediately.
It sounds like you are a little older, perhaps a little wiser. You may find that what you were so desperately chasing, like a cat after a red dot, is not really what you thought it would be. I'm 71 and you have a lot of good/hard lessons to learn. I perceive a glimmer of eyes being opened.
Yes I had that too working in healthcare innovation, loved the buzz, but the impact on your health is real! 5 years on slow living & creativity works better.
Enjoyed the read. Thank you. I too seem to always want to rush around even when those extra few minutes wont mean much in the end. Living in a country which doesnt believe in rushing around and is doing very well without that sense of urgency always for every task is helping me try n reign in the beast.
The rush addiction is real! I often feel like I need to make work - to write, to finish a project - quickly. Get it done, get it done now. But then I’ll be done and surely the point in the first place is the doing of it…..
I’m SO happy to be well in the other side of all this rushing & doing. At 65 I’m learning, practicing, feeling my way into BEING. It’s ridiculously challenging ! Enjoy Art College, I went to Bristol, a third of a life ago, and have been contemplating signing up to a local textile course. I love your writing, it’s quite inspirational.
Thanks Lee, for reading, understanding and leaving such a lovely comment. I hope you can sign up to that course x
R.I.P our city-people blood pressure.
I’m almost a year into freelancing after 20 years of working as a journalist for regional news sites/newspapers and I’m still finding it hard not to want to get every idea I think of done immediately.
It sounds like you are a little older, perhaps a little wiser. You may find that what you were so desperately chasing, like a cat after a red dot, is not really what you thought it would be. I'm 71 and you have a lot of good/hard lessons to learn. I perceive a glimmer of eyes being opened.