speeding never got me anywhere
〰️ come stroll with me
I’m writing to you after delicately smiling at what (from the very logical and youtubey entrepreneur) would see as a year of a business failure.
A year of damage control and multiple fires being burned.
A year of navigating change in the most audacious aquarius ways.
The numbers coming and going.
The analytics having high moments and pauses of crickets.
A year of brushing against road bumps and doing my darndest not to get pulled over when speeding on my online service provider highway.
The entrepreneur money mama matrices should have given me a speeding ticket from the get-go.
There’s something about the sensation of summer that anchors me into a past reflection. For me, I don’t look at the past year in January, I’m in a cycle of my own and do the subtle auditing this month.
Happy July, coming from a woman who decided to finally drive in her slowness.
I stopped policing myself and quietly entered the lane farthest to the right.
Speeding never got me anywhere, but slowness did.
I recently did an internal inventory of my speed and how I dictated said speed based on the once-believed truth that I was not where I wanted to be.
I did something completely outrageous and far from my preferences…
I accepted where I was. I said, you are not your speedometer nor your finish line.
You are the vehicle of creation.
You are the transportation of an energy that wants to experience the pit stops.
You appreciate the breaks and enjoy peeing on the side of the road by a rose bush.
The audacity!
To enjoy a slow life- a life that’s worth seeing the weird knit museum 80 miles north.
To love slowly - a love for the wind in your hair when you choose to go past the limit and a simultaneous love for when the car breaks down and you’re forced to meditate with it.
I realize that all of the niches and bubbles I tried in the past year were all rooted in a similar frequency- it was how I expressed them all in slowness.
I said words that made you stop.
I created programs and offerings that allowed you to take your time.
My “niche” all along was never the niche thing, it was the energy with which I presented. It’s how I showed up. It was my operation of it all.
Living slowly used to be the death of me.
I never used to try new things unless there was a guarantee of advancement or some pre-destined exchange of scaling instantaneously.
I was the queen of instant gratification.
I guess that’s what makes me the perfect candidate for learning to live slowly.
This is the season to remember that you are creating a more extravagant distance to your visions when you decide that you are not exactly where you need to be.
Please read that again, for me.
Let’s laugh together at the fact that a year after doing this subliminal shift thing, I started to grow when I embodied the slow.
My ego took a swirl!
So here I am, at a magnificent pit stop in my life without a fuss. Without the thought of “should I quit?”
Thank you for spending the past year with me or maybe this is the first piece of my writing that you’ve received. I bask in delight no matter the length.
Either way, it was brought to you not from a place of hungry fastening or a need to be something that I’m not yet. It came from me. A current Sierra who is *still* learning, excavating, and humaning.
She’s living slowly and is growing more than she ever thought imaginable.
Maybe your evolution is not in the hard-core growing, but in the way you grow in your devotion. The way you say one less critical thing about yourself. The way you pause when you think you need to be farther down the road.
I’m celebrating your slowness and all the honking that comes alongside it.
Thank you for taking the coast with me.
I love your velocity at any rate.
xo
Sierra ~
the awaited bossa nova girlie playlist, from my personal collection to yours! play it when you are cooking a long meal, driving nowhere, eating a pastry, or dancing at sunset. this is the playlist that reminds me of how I create time.
you may be a part of the living libations cult, but have you ever used the best skin ever on your vulva? try it with my favorite skincare product this season.
the best moisturizer ever
I partake in smoking one of these boys as the day unwinds every now & then
a tin fish candle !!!! need I say more? I picked this up recently and felt cellular vibrations
the raw carrot salad- liver support, happy periods, and more. I’ve made a return!
craving this hat / currently sitting pretty in my cart
big lover of the sun and the healing powers of light, but when I’m out in long hours between 10am-2pm or in different altitudes, this is my favorite non-nano zinc to use
this Swedish dog puzzle has been SO good for Juno’s mental stimulation (especially mid-day when it gets too hot for his double coat)
this flower essence for the 4th…he’s a timid, sensitive fellow so we’ve seen this work magic in 10 minutes for any emergency or loud event
we put frozen raw goat milk or frozen bone broth in this pupsicle and it’s so refreshing for him post-walks
he’s an aggro chewer lol so this toy has been supporting his evenings before bed
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You’re my therapy.
You're right. Absolutely right, actually. It was never the niche. It was you.