661 - Peace of mind is wealth

Hello, and welcome to the New Mindset Who Does Podcast. My name is Casey Kenney at Case.Kenney.i. Instagram, and this is my weekly podcast where I create short, no BS episodes dedicated to helping you become the person you're meant to be. Leave your comfort zone and live a purposeful and fulfilling life. Let's go.

All right. Welcome to Episode 661. Hello, my friend. Welcome to a fresh new episode of New Mindset, who this, as always, thank you so much for listening. Thank you for supporting me in today. The goal, our goal for the next.

365 days is to create peace of mind for ourselves, peace of mind, peace of mind. And I want to talk about what it means to have peace of mind because for one, I think it's the best feeling in the world. And two, it's not quite what we think of when we typically think of this idea.

Having peace of mind, it's the best feeling. And I realize how amazing it feels in particular, having lived in Miami for the past two years, because a lot of things, a lot of people in Miami are what I would call the opposite of peace of mind, which is a distraction or, you know, a temptation. There are lots of distractions and temptations in Miami, and not just like romantic temptations or like wandering eye temptations, but like,

So many things in Miami tempt you into thinking you need to go faster or harder or be hot or have more, more and more faster, faster. These things in these people in just the atmosphere of certain areas, they convince you to do something that isn't rooted in your soul. They rush you.

And I was thinking about how being at peace changes things. I was thinking about how at peace I've felt this past year amidst all these things, amidst things which I think in the past really like would have spiraled me. I feel like a younger version of case would have seen all the success and noise and money and people in glitz and glam in Miami or anywhere for that matter.

and without question, I would have projected that onto myself, and I would have said, I need that. I need to go faster. I need to move differently. I need to emulate. I need to copy. I would have been thrown by all the noise. I would have drowned in it. I would have listened to it, and I would have let it consume me. But that's not who I am anymore. I hear it.

But I've already made up my mind. I've already made up my mind about what's important to me, what isn't important to me, and I'm grounded in making the moves I'm making on my own schedule. And it's this that has made me realize what it means to have peace of mind.

Peace of mind isn't earned by speeding through life. It's claimed by refusing to race in the first place. Again, peace of mind isn't earned by speeding through life. It's claimed by refusing to race in the first place. And I think that's a bit different from how we think of peace of mind or like being at peace or whatever words you want to use.

We think this is a state of being that we get to finally after we do the rat race, after we suck it up and do all the things that are expected of us and now we don't have to do them over again. It's a mindset that we get after we play our role and now we can escape from that reality.

And you know, sure, in a sense, there's truth to, like, peace of mind comes after the storm, sure. But I've learned that peace of mind comes from one simple source, one simple decision. Peace of mind is about being unrushed, resolutely, stubbornly, unrushed in life, unrushed in love, unrushed in your career. Peace of mind is about being unrushed and uninterested in things, chasing things that aren't meant for you. Peace of mind is

wealth. It's the luxury of looking at the chaos, the comparison, the glitz and glam of the world and saying, well, that's cool. But I'm good over here. Peace of mind is not the absence of noise. And this is really important, which I'll talk about in a bit. It's the refusal to dance to anyone else's tune. It's showing up to your own life on your own schedule. Not someone else is not the collective society's panic fueled agenda.

not comparison, not feeling like you need to catch up just on time, on your own timeline. That is peace of mind. And certainly being unrushed in life is not laziness. It's strategy. It's understanding that hurrying through your days and more specifically being hurried through your days.

That is the fastest way to miss your life entirely. We have all been sold this idea that productivity equals worth. Be that productive with money, or going on dates, or marriage, or kids, or jobs, or followers. You name it. But peace of mind, for me at least, is knowing that being busy and being fulfilled are two very different things. Your time is currency.

It's the only currency that matters. It is wealth and spending it chasing someone else's idea of success or idea of love or idea of fulfillment. I think that is the most expensive mistake you can ever make. Peace of mind is not saying yes to everyone who demands your energy. Peace of mind isn't about being liked by everyone. It is about being free. Free from deadlines that don't matter. Free from people who drain you and free from the belief.

that your value is to hide to how much you can cram into a day, into a month, into a year. To have peace of mind, so I think we have to stop running. We have to stop running toward validation. We have to stop running from our fear. We have to stop running just because everyone else is running toward whatever it is they're running toward, some imaginary finish line. When you're unrushed, the opposite of running, you see life for what it is. It is a series of moments to savor, not some race to win.

That is power. That is freedom and that is peace. So this is our new definition of peace of mind. It's waking up and it's refusing to let the world put you on its timeline. Unrushed. We are unrushed. That is the tattoo on our soul this year.

Unrushed. It's taking life at your own pace, whether that means speeding up or slowing down. You decide. It's having confidence to live as if everything is working out in your favor because rushing through life. I guess the question is, has rushing through life ever brought anyone peace? I don't think so. I feel like it's done the opposite. It just makes you tired.

Peace of mind isn't a reward you get for doing everything right. It's pushing back against everything that's making you feel wrong, making you feel wrong. We live in a world that worships urgency and productivity. And so, yeah, I think being unrushed might feel a little bit different. It might look a little bit different.

It's saying, I will not measure my life by how fast and I can achieve something or how much I can produce. But being unrushed isn't about wasting time. As a result, it's about valuing it. It's about valuing it enough so much so that you spend it wisely.

Right? It's a rejection of the idea that faster is better. If you're not first, you're last, right? That success is a sprint or that meaning is found and how quickly you could check things off a list and know now you can relax because you checked all the boxes. To be unrushed is to embrace the idea that fulfillment is found in the steps you take in your life. Not a finish line.

And philosophically, I was thinking about just how we think about time. Being unrushed is about shifting from a linear mindset to a more cyclical one. Life is not a straight line from when you're born to when you die. It is a series of moments that bend and evolve and unfold at their own pace.

When you stop rushing, I think you start noticing the beauty in these patterns, the way that seasons change, the way that conversations have depth, the way that everything has its own time to bloom and grow and evolve. To be unrushed is to accept that life has a natural rhythm to it, and your job is never to force it. Your job is to flow with it. So this is realizing that the moments we rush through, these sometimes are the ones that have the most meaning, but we never realize it.

So being unrushed then is about trust. Trusting yourself, trusting the process. It's a cliche, but trusting the process. Trusting that what is meant for you won't arrive too late or too soon, right? It's never too late. You're never too early. It's understanding that urgency comes from fear, fear of missing out, fear of failure, fear of not being enough, whatever it is. To be unrushed is to let go of that fear.

To be unrest is to embrace the belief that everything happens in its own time. You're putting in the work, right? Of course, we're putting in the work. We're not just sitting back. This is trust in yourself, trust in yourself, trust in the universe, trust in timing. This is having the courage to let life unfold rather than trying to control every detail because you know that what you're meant to experience will find its way to you when you're ready to receive it. And I think to trust yourself in this sense, well, that feels good, doesn't it? And that is peace of mind.

Ultimately, I would say being unrushed is a source of freedom. It's a form of freedom. It's freedom from the weight of should and must. Freedom from pressure to keep up with everyone else. Freedom from a need to prove your worth by how fast you can go. This is living with awareness that life isn't about how quickly you can move through it, but about how deeply you can experience it. Now, you can look back and reflect on that depth rather than just seeing a blur.

To be unrushed is to live fully awake and fully present. And I think back to the larger goal here, peace of mind. Peace of mind is a natural byproduct of being unrushed. How could it not be, right? When you stop tying your value to how quickly you can achieve something or how much you can produce or, you know, practically, how quickly you can get married or how quickly you can earn $100,000. When you set that aside and you just let life be life, you create space to breathe.

Peace of mind comes from that space. It comes from that space. It comes from knowing that life is in a race. It is a series of moments to be savored where you can take deep breaths and feel the life around you. It's understanding that worth your worth, my worth, our worth, isn't measured by output.

I mean, sure, in certain contexts, it is, right? I don't live in a lava land in your job. Yes, sure. But humanity, the reason you're alive, the reason your heart beats, right? It's not about worth tied to output. It's about your ability to live in alignment with what matters to you. And when you realize this, when you're unrushed, you stop chasing timelines that aren't yours.

And as a result, you have stillness. And that is where clarity lives. So again, peace of mind isn't the absence of chaos. It's the refusal to let chaos dictate your pace. And that's why I love this idea because so often we're fed this line that, you know, to find peace in life, we have to remove ourselves from life. You have to find a way to step back from reality.

I hate that. I really don't like that idea that to be at peace we have to remove ourselves from temptation. We have to tune out all the noise. We have to inherently slow down. I don't think that's true. To have peace of mind to be unrushed, I think you need to throw yourself even more fully into life and you make sense of it. And then you speed up or you slow down because you decide you want to.

No one else does it for you. You decide. And you make the most out of the days you're given either by accelerating or by savoring, accelerating or savoring or a balance. You decide. That is agency of yourself. It is trust in yourself. It is freedom. And those are the elements that give you peace of mind.

So that's the idea of this episode. When you allow yourself to live unrushed, you allow yourself to trust in the timing of your life. This is trust that strips away the anxiety that comes with always needing to be somewhere or to be a version of yourself that you're not. A peace of mind is knowing that you're exactly where you need to be.

and everything that's meant for you is unfolding at the right pace. This is the realization that you don't have to control everything to feel at ease. You don't have to have accomplished everything to feel at ease. You simply have to stop fighting the flow. This is about creating an unrushed rhythm of life within which you find freedom. Freedom to let go. Freedom to focus on what fills you up. Freedom to live without fear of falling behind. Feels pretty good, doesn't it? Sounds pretty good, right? This isn't about escaping life.

It's about being present in it. It's not a retreat. It's a renaissance. It's standing in the middle of everything, whether that's noise or distraction or temptation. It's knowing you are unshaken because you're unrushed. This is quiet confidence. This is the quiet confidence of someone who doesn't need external pressure to take up space, to move at their own pace, or to exist exactly as they are.

Peace of mind is knowing that you don't need to outpace anyone because the only race worth running is the one that gets you closer to yourself. It's the one that says, I'm exactly where I'm supposed to be. So that's it on right here. I hope this gave you something to think about. If it did, I'd be so grateful if you share the episode with a friend just to send in the link to Apple podcast or the Spotify. Thank you so much for doing that. And as always, thank you so much for listening. Thank you for supporting me. And until next episode, I'm out.