Slowing down means choosing the scenic route, not the fastest shortcut. They always say it’s about the journey not the destination. So stop and take some detours, enjoy the view, go and explore. Instead of planning and thinking all the time, choose to feel and be.

Youth is wasted on the young…I recently came across this phrase in an autobiography I was reading by the journalist Dolly Alderton. Dolly was explaining how she was just about to turn 30 and thus, expectantly, was in the midst of an existential crisis. There she was – a grown-up, with commitments and places to be. How had she gotten there so quickly?