Three Journal Prompts for when things are moving too slow:

What happens when you accept yourself where you are and the pace you are moving in?

… And, at the same time, accept the dreams you have for where you wish you were? 

What happens when you try to hold all of it together?

I know. I hate these questions. AND. They are the absolute best journal prompts for when things are moving too slow.

There are things I want to be doing.

I HAD started making good process on creative projects and was feeling amazing.

Now, everything is moving at a snail's pace and it is PISSING ME OFF!

So I am trying to gather up the patience to sit with the stucks. (Using the Un-Sticking Station practice from the membership)

And I am working through the stucks much more slowly than I ever have.

Maybe it’s the state of the world, or that I am in the final stages of getting a divorce or maybe I'm just 51 and this is what happens.... or something else.

And I think I tend move through the stucks slower so I can really notice what’s happening, understand it more deeply, and be able to share what I learn there to help guide others through their stucks. That's a part of my work, and something that just happens naturally, I am not TRYING to slow down and really notice every shitty thing about being stuck!

Accepting that I am stuck is NOT easy.

It’s more natural to be frustrated with the stuck.

But I do know that being frustrated doesn’t tend to solve anything so I am practicing acceptance.

And in the times when I can accept it, new possibilities spring up around… there may be entirely different ways to DO THE THING than what I can see when I am moving more quickly or lost in frustration about not being able to move quickly.

Slowing down may actually help me get there faster which I know is not uncommon when it comes to our creative dreams AND I have a hard time trusting it.

When things are moving too slow, trying to find the way to speed them up as fast as possible will generally make everything worse.

There's the solution you can see out of frustration and resistance to slowing down....

And then there's the solution you can see when you are still and quiet and really listening to yourself.

It's worth the time it takes to find that second one.

You need to stop judging things for being "too slow" before you can speed them up.

 

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