When Slowing Down Is Challenging

Cap Kotz
3 min readSep 29, 2021

When a road sign tells me to slow down, I do, though I’m often irritated and impatient to get where I’m going. So, essentially, I’m not slowing down. Instead, I pretend to while inwardly I’m brewing a hyper stew.

It’s challenging to slow down when I’m in a hurry, want to get somewhere fast, work harder for success, or master my to-do list. I experimented with emptying my thoughts and settled on a basic catch & empty, using two coffee pots. The Mr. Coffee pots with the lids removed. The next time I was told to slow down for a School Zone, I slowed down and practiced my catch…

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Cap Kotz

Writer and Story Mapping Guide, I follow the life path no matter how challenging.