“Festina Lente” // “Make Haste Slowly”
An old Latin phrase I heard on a podcast at some point last year* - it keeps coming back to me.
Part is that, it’s good to remember that the end is not as far off as it may seem. Part is that, good things take time, they happen bit by bit, there’s a cumulative effect. Some things that count cannot be done in a ‘sitting’, or even a decade. If you do not string together, you’ll not have accomplished anything of length.
And so there’s an immediacy, a pressure to do something now. While there’s also a patience and a plodding, one step, then the next. But most of all, there’s a need to be moving in the same direction, lest, after countless steps, one has not yet left the room.
(*”OptimalWork” podcast)