Why am I always in a hurry?

“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, then this self-inquiry 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 is it implied that it is about you.