“Slow down. It’s not a race.”

This is a phrase parents sometimes say to children when a task is being completed hastily, or there’s unnecessary rushing.

From time to time, it’s good, too, to ask ourselves: Where are the areas we race ... when it’s not a race? Where we compete ... when it’s not a competition?

And in those places, how can we remind ourselves to slow down and to dial it back?

After all ... not everything is a race.