{"id":18583,"date":"2025-08-27T11:28:32","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T18:28:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/?p=18583"},"modified":"2025-08-27T11:28:34","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T18:28:34","slug":"slow-down-and-integrate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/slow-down-and-integrate\/","title":{"rendered":"Slow down and integrate"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>A propos of yesterday&#8217;s post on strategic planning<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/censemaking.com\/2025\/08\/27\/strategic-design-and-consultants\/\">Cameron Norman has a nice post today<\/a> on working with organizations as a consultant engaging in strategic design and helping contracted work land and be integrated within client organizations.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>My buddy Tenneson is inviting a little weekly practice<\/strong> with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennesonwoolf.com\/wander-wednesday\/\">his Wander Wednesday series<\/a>. Today he asks <em>What is a gift of slowing down for you? <\/em>I&#8217;m about to join him on a call with a client in the next hour, so this little space here, a chance to read inspiring bits from my blogroll and take a moment to reflect on them without just scrolling by, that is the gift. In face since I&#8217;ve been blogging nearly daily again since June, I find that this practice has slowed down how I consume the great ideas that surround me and invited me to reflect on them. I&#8217;m not really writing for anyone other than me (but I hope if you drop in here you also find stuff that resonates with you). The gift of slowing down is the chance to try things on. Like I&#8217;m looking at some really nice shirts on the rack at the store, but unless I can see how they look on me I may never remember that I saw them. 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