How Can I Have a Slow Life AND Have Money?

I was sitting in my chair the other day, doing some work and wrapping up a few things when suddenly the question popped into my head like a small quiet neon sign. It was seemingly out of nowhere, but I know better than that.

So I asked myself… “How can I have a slow life and still have the kind of money I want to have in my life and business?”

I waited. And the answer rose up from the deep well of my being. You know those kinds of answers? The ones that feel like the absolute truth. Clear and shining, solid and firm, and yet somehow inexplicably light despite this. And the answer spoke, clear and calm and straight:

“Choose it.”

This was not my minds answer. This was my souls’ answer. Life’s answer (a word I often use in place of ‘God’ or ‘Universe’). I can tell the difference by now.

My minds answers often have a certain frequency of hustling to them, like a built-in low-lying panic and existential dread, if they had voices they’d be running around with their hair on fire screaming, “There’s no time! THERE’S NO TIME!!!”

You can feel the bigger answers in your body. You feel the peace of them, the calm. Even when it makes no f-ing sense.

My mind chimed in… “Choose it??! What about dates, times, methods, how’s, why’s…