It can feel like the world is going faster than ever. Breaking news alerts. Work that used to end at the office now bleeds over to our time at home. Email. A phone that never stops buzzing. Everything seems more competitive, from college admissions to the real estate market. And now a pandemic, civil unrest, and systems and leaders that seem to be failing us completely. How much of this is really new and how much of it is an illusion is not really clear, but in the end, it doesn’t really matter. We feel overwhelmed. We feel overworked. We feel like we’re losing our grip...and we may well be. There’s a band called The Head and the Heart, which is an excellent name considering the lyrics to one of their best songs, “Let’s Be Still.” It’s all about using those two things to do something really important: The world's just spinning A little too fast If things don't slow down soon we might not last So just for the moment, let's be still Marcus Aurelius talks about the bustle a