10 Things I Quit To Slow Down My Life

Hi there! I’m Hunter. I’m a mother of a two-year-old daughter, married to my British husband, and we live in Northwest Florida along the beautiful white, sandy beaches. I share about sacred & slow living as well as my own personal journey in being a mother and a creative. Make sure to subscribe to have my posts delivered directly to your inbox. I’m so glad you’re here.

You know when you were a kid, and it’s summer, and you’re having the absolute best day? You’re playing outside with your friends, hopscotching or running through sprinklers, and it feels like the sun is never going to set. Time feels infinite because life feels so good.

Time is such a fascinating concept to me because I think so much of it is about our perception and relationship to it. I noticed that when I began to implement slow living and literally slow down in my days, those moments that I wanted to last forever started to feel like they went on longer, and I could enjoy them more fully. We can get so caught up in the hustle of life that we forget about the beauty of a mundane day. We forget about the magic we’ve experienced in childhood, or we completely forget that kind of joy & presence is even possible for us anymore. We want so bad to get to the next thing that we miss out on the happiness of what is happening right in front of us.

Society & culture tell us we need more to be happy, we need more to get to where we want to be, and we forget to be in the now. I found that when I slowed down, I began to notice all these unnecessary habits or things I had filled my life with that were no longer serving me, and never really felt good from the beginning. I learned that when I started saying no to certain things, I could make room for all the big yeses in my life that truly mattered. And that’s the beginning of making these little tiny micro-movements towards living the life we actually want to be living in the here and now, and not as some “if, then” world. We stop trying to let life pass us by and not even notice the beauty in the everyday. We can bend and shape time to support us in making our days magical and find contentment in the process of living.

So, here are ten things I naturally quit when I started to embrace slow living, and how they supported me to create the life I dreamed of versus what I thought the world wanted from me. I found that when I stopped giving time to these things, I learned about time as the valuable currency that it’s truly meant to be.