This is the story of when I accidentally flushed down my phone in the toilet and felt incredibly relieved!

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I used to be addicted to being busy. The more I stuffed in, the better I felt. Until it all became too much and I felt suffocated instead.

I remember one day when I was studying at Uppsala University, I was 24. At the time I was vice president of the student union, so on top of all the studies and parties, I had a huge amount of meetings and other commitments.

And one day, I accidentally dropped my phone in the toilet and flushed!

Pooff, and it was gone!

Probably from doing so much multi-tasking and being so busy. And tired!

But the crazy thing was that instead of panicking that my life-line was gone, I started laughing hysterically.

I was so relieved that I couldn’t be reached for at least a few days, until I managed to get a new phone.

That constant feeling of being haunted, where I wasn’t in control of my own schedule, and not seeing the end and a break, made me go bananas.

And so many of those things I loved, and had chosen myself! And still, it made me totally exhausted.

This was the time leading up to my first mini-burnout, and a few years later, I crashed for real.

In hindsight, I can see all the things that led to that, but not at the time. I had no idea how to slow down and take care of myself.

Today, we're diving deep into a topic that's close to my heart – the art of slowing down to speed up.

That is; how to find space & rest in a busy schedule, to own your time, so you can continue performing at a high level, and maybe even higher?

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