We're in Newquay, Cornwall this week on holiday; we try to get down this way at least once per year.
I find it
helps calm my brain being by the sea and watching the waves.
Everything is more relaxed here too, unfortunately that includes the phone signal and internet speed.
The apartment we are staying in is beautiful but the 'wifi' is actually only dial up, can you remember the days when you had to wait for a video to load?
I wanted to catch up on some work while we were here.
Not proper
work, just watching some videos and some reading from a course I'm on. The internet speed is that slow at the apartment that I can't even load one of the websites I wanted to view before it times out.
I'm writing this in a
cafe in the centre of Newquay as the web access is better.
At first I was a little wound up by it, I was frustrated to have my plans disrupted.
Then I got a grip.
My plans changed, so what.
I'm on holiday, if I can't watch a few videos it doesn't really matter. It's not the end of the world.
Instead, I've read my fiction book, I've played a game on my phone, I've rocked it on my step goal.
It's reminded me to actually take some time out for myself. Allow education time in to my working week so I don't have to 'catch up' on holiday.
I'd fallen back in to the routine of living at a thousand miles per hour and not having any down time.
It
took dial-up internet from the nineties to remind me of that.
Use that as a reminder for you to take a bit of time out for yourself.
Slow life down and you can actually enjoy it more and achieve more as a result.
We're meant to thrive not survive life, what can you get rid of today that would make life calmer?
Darren 'spectrum' Checkley