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 »
The Eye of the Storm: Remaining Calm in a Hectic Environment
The Christmas festive period is upon us, which means that suddenly people appear from everywhere and clutter the shops, roads malls and town centres, making even a simple errand 10 times more difficult and time consuming. It is easy being “tortoise-minded” and embrace the slow philosophy, psychology and lifestyle if you stay out of the [...] Read more »
Slow Blogging Revisited
I seem to do everything wrong. According to the top bloggers out there at least. I don’t post often or regularly, I write long(ish) meandering posts, they take awhile to get to the point (if there actually is a point) and I often digress (often in long brackets). I make a few grammatical and spelling [...] Read more »
4 Physical Ways to Slow Down
I talk a lot about cultivating your “tortoise mind”, in fact, one could say it is the raison d’être of this blog. However, really, talking just about the “tortoise mind” is somewhat of a red herring, as our mind and body are intrinsically linked and one affects the other. One of the fastest ways to [...] Read more »
The Deck Chair Diaries Part 2
It has been a while hasn’t it? I am all of a muddle, having had a busy month or so and have been neglecting all my online duties. Back in the middle of June (the 16th to be exact), my main website, mattcaulfield.com where I promote all my courses, products and coaching keeled over, catastrophically. [...] Read more »
The Deckchair Diaries Part 1
Originally inspired by Tom Hodgkinson’s Country Diary and the excellent Orwell Diaries, this blog, when it was over at wordpress.com was entitled the “Deckchair Diaries” and was a more personal journal of my journey on the path to slowing down. Some readers have requested a bit more of a personal touch on this site, with [...] Read more »
Vision For Living
Just a quick post to let you know that I am doing a talk entitled “Welcome to the Slow Life” at the Vision For Living Exhibition in Cardiff on the 31st October at 5:00pm. The talk itself is free and the entry to the exhibition is only £4.95 for the day. You can learn more [...] Read more »
It Happens When It Happens
Well, I am sorry for not blogging for over 2 weeks, I have been on holiday and on my return had a lot of little bits to sort out. I spent a lovely week in Crete, nice food, nice wine, just sunbathing and catching up on a pile of books I wanted to read. Whilst [...] Read more »
A Bit of News…
There are going to be a few changes around here. Number 1 is that I am stopping using “The Slow Coach” title (for a variety of reasons), so you will start to see changes reflecting that. Also, I have a new coaching venue, which will cause me to stop celebrating Saint Monday, which is a [...] Read more »
Idlers Accessories: The Walking Stick
I lament the passing of the days when a gentleman wouldn’t leave the house without a walking stick. You see, I have a bit of a “gammy” knee, nothing too serious, I can still do Tai Chi, squat heavy weights, and walk without a limp, but I can’t run and occasionally when walking down hill, [...] Read more »