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🌸 A Soft Start
You were born with rhythm.
Your heartbeat, your breath, your blinking eyes—all keeping time before you ever kept a calendar.
But somewhere along the way, you traded rhythm for rigor.
Routine replaced flow.
Schedules replaced seasons.
And something inside you has been quietly aching for a softer beat ever since.
This lesson isn’t about rejecting structure.
It’s about rediscovering your own internal time signature.
🌀 A Gentle Truth
Productivity culture teaches consistency as sameness.
But nature doesn’t move in straight lines.
It cycles, it spirals, it rests and returns.
And so do you.
You don’t need to force a rhythm.
You just need to listen for the one already trying to come through you.
💡 Try This
Choose one part of your day—just one.
And instead of doing it how you “should,” do it how your body asks.
Move slower. Or softer. Or stretch it longer. Or simplify it.
Then notice:
- Did this feel like a fight or a flow?
- What shifted in your energy afterward?
- What would it look like to give this kind of rhythm to more of your life?
💭 Parting Thought
You don’t need to wrestle rhythm back into your life.
You just need to stop drowning it out.
The rhythm remembers you.
Let it lead.
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The Systems Cowboy Guide to Living Softly in a Hard World
