“Strangely, it appears to me that the reason I am always in a hurry is because I have a lack of trust.” If this resonates with you, this exercise may be valuable to you.
Self-Observation on why I am always in a hurry
- This is clearly some kind of unconscious block in me as even when I see that I am in a hurry, I cannot stop it.
- I just keep on being in a hurry and it is making me even more nervous.
- Actually I even want to speed it up. Because I want to finish as soon as possible to ‘escape this hard situation’.
- I speed it up and so I get even more exhausted.
- I am afraid of the situation itself.
Chain of thoughts coming when I am able to go deeper
- It appears to me that my need to hurry up comes up in situations where I have an ‘obligation’, some work that I feel I must do. I am not in a hurry where I have no ‘obligation to deliver’.
- I have a self-confidence issue. My need to speed things up is due to the fear of the ‘situation’.
- No. It is not a pure self-confidence issue.
- It is a question of trust.
- Let me approach it from another way and imagine myself with this mindset: If I had complete trust that this situation, this work to be done would work out just fine, I would have no urge to hurry it. It is not a self-confidence thing alone. It is trusting that things will work out fine; It is not just about me.
The above self-observation exercise is just one possible flow of associations. It is meant to stimulate you and by no means it is implied that it is about you.
(If you are new to the concept of self-observation or looking for some practical guidance then maybe read this article: How Self-Observation Works)
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