There is an irony at this time of year. Everyone talks about the “season of goodwill” but other than making a few (forced) false platitudes, sending Christmas cards and gifts (often because they think they should, or because of some selfish reason to be seen to be being generous) most people become (much more) self [...] Read more »
Simple Ways to Slow Down Daily
Slowing down shouldn’t be a chore, it should be simple, easy, fun and rewarding. If it is a hassle, you are doing it wrong. If it is a hassle, you won’t stick to it. So here are a few simple ways that you can slow down in a day. You don’t need to do all [...] Read more »
Compassion: The Second Keystone of a Tortoise Mind
Compassion is not very fashionable nowadays. Our hare-brained society rewards and favours (and even deifies on some occasions) the rude, the aggressive and the self centred. Hare-brained people hide behind terms like “assertiveness” or “honesty” or “just telling it how it is”, when they are simply being rude, judgemental and self centred. They mock people [...] Read more »
How to Develop Slow Speech
Here are just a few ways you can practice slow speech, become less critical and more positive in what you say. This will have an affect that more people will like you and want to hang out with you. Which is nice… Be grateful – the happier you are with your life the less likely [...] Read more »
Slow Speech
This post comes to you as part confession. I am a whining, moaning, angry bitch. Everything that comes out of my mouth is either a moan, a complaint, a rant or a criticism. OK I may be exaggerating slightly for effect, but I have becoming frighteningly aware recently that I have become more critical and [...] Read more »
Nice Guys Finish Last? BBC Radio Five Live
(Firstly, my apologies for not posting for a few days, things have been conspiring against me!) On Monday night, I appeared on the Richard Bacon Show on BBC Radio Five Live discussing a new piece of research that nice people, on average, earn £1500 less a year. You can read the rather dubious news story [...] Read more »
Slow Cast Episode 8: Manners Maketh the Idler RE-UPLOADED
Oops! My apologies for the SlowCast uploaded last Thursday, it didn’t seem to get past the 2 minute mark! Many thanks to the people who have sent emails and comments letting me know. I have reuploaded the SlowCast, and it should hopefully work OK now. You can listen to the full podcast here: http://slowcoach.podbean.com/2009/06/29/slow-cast-episode-8-manners-maketh-the-idler-re-uploaded/ SC Read more »