🧠 The key to creating your own luck in life

To be unrushed is to give yourself permission to pause, breathe deeply, and truly inhabit each moment as you’re in it - not as a precursor to something better, but as the best moment yet.

Here are three mindsets to help you find joy in the present

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- Case Kenny (@case.kenny)

1. Luck comes from being present

Listen to today’s podcast to learn about how luck and being present are intrinsically related. I talk about the science of luck and how being “unrushed” is the key to creating your own luck.

• Being unrushed = creating your own luck

• Are you “lucky” or “unlucky?”

• What is the "Unrushed Philosophy?”

Listen here.

2. Calm and at peace.

You know what gives me hope?

The fact that there are people who have healed their pain instead of spreading it. Instead of tearing others down. Instead of creating drama.

You can sense it in their presence. The energy is different. People who are at peace with themselves have a sense of calm warmth that they refuse to let anyone take from them.

I love these kinds of people. Not loud, not flashy. Just full of warmth. Their kindness is real and genuine, it’s never a tactic or a strategy.

We can all be those people. People who bring peace wherever we go. That is what gives me hope.

3. You’re NOT falling behind

I podcast and write for a living and a big part of that is talking to other people, listening to their life experience, and learning from them. I love talking to older generations and asking them questions like what do you regret in your life? What’s your best piece of life wisdom?

One of the most helpful responses I’ve heard came from someone in their 70s and is as follows:

What seems like a big deal now, isn’t–no matter your age. When you’re 33, you’re not gonna care about your unrequited crush, though your 15-year-old mind can’t fathom it. 

When you’re 50, you won’t stress about costing your company an important client, though your 33-year-old mind thinks you’ve permanently destroyed your career. 

When you’re 70, it won’t matter that the house you bought at 50 wasn’t the good investment you’d hoped.

Don’t stress yourself out, because most of today’s earth-shattering events are tomorrow’s inconsequential BS.

I don’t have all the answers, and yes some life events are permanent but we’ll never know in the present. We won’t. We’re always rushing in life - both literally in thinking we’re out of time and figuratively with the negative assumptions we make. That worrying, that rushing makes you suffer twice or as Seneca says: we suffer more in imagination than we do in reality.

I talk to people in their 20s and they feel like they’re falling behind, they’re out of time and I talk to people in their 60s and they say they're just getting started.

The difference is perspective and trust.

All we can do is move forward with a mentality that says… as the saying goes: you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. 

We have to trust that the dots will connect in the future and in the meanwhile we make the most of the time we’ve been given.

My name is Case. I believe in the power of perspective.

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