In continuation from my last entry, I wanted to go into a bit more detail about how to organise your tasks and time in a way that will fend off the Short Time Mob. I have dubbed this the “Mynah Method” after the mynah birds in Aldous Huxley’s novel Island. I once had a client [...] Read more »
The Deck Chair Diaries Part 5
A day in the life… A lot of people ask me what I get up to on a day to day basis, so I thought I would give you a timetable of my “ideal idle day”. I admit, things don’t always work out this well, but I try and use for this template. You may [...] Read more »
SlowCast From the Vault 1: Creating Space to be Slow
The biggest excuse (and it is just that – an excuse) I get from people who want to slow down is that they “don’t have the time”. So in the first of an intermittent series of “from the vaults”, I have given a simple process to de-clutter your mind and your life to create space [...] Read more »
Your Own “NOT to Do” List
The slow life is the simple life is the easy life. Yet we often find we clutter up our lives with things we don’t want or need to do. A way of releasing yourself from these habits is to do a “NOT to Do” list. I wrote about what it is and how you can [...] Read more »
The Overflowing Teacup
“Once, a university professor went to visit a Zen master. While the master quietly served tea, the professor talked continuously about Zen, his thoughts, his ideas, his understands and his questions… As he spoke the master poured the visitor’s cup to the brim, but then kept pouring. The professor watched the overflowing cup until he [...] Read more »
The Slow Coach is Off to See Banksy
Sorry for no post again today, not been great recently. Been busy, busy, busy (and as I said in this post, “busy” rarely means “productive”!). Still, remember the 1st rule of slow blogging – “it happens when it happens”! I am off to see the Banksy exhibition at Bristol museum. Will be back tomorrow, SC Read more »
Is Slow Anti-Work?
I am just reading “Useful Work Vs Useless Toil” by William Morris (one of the excellent Great Idea’s Series by Penguin) and I was thinking about a question I wanted to talk about for some time, which is “Is Slow anti-work?”. I am going to give a brief answer here and hopefully expand the idea [...] Read more »
The Best of Tortoise Knows Best So Far…(Part 2: The WordPress.com Days)
Continuing the best of theme. Here is the “best of” the WordPress.com days (running from October ’08 – January ’09): The Little Things Where I muse on how it is often the little things that we don’t really pay attention too that makes us the happiest in life, not the big bucks stuff we would [...] Read more »
De-clutter your mind to give you space to slow down. Part 6: Shoulds
Right, we are onto the last step of de-cluttering your mind. Tomorrow I will post a short review of the steps. The final step is to deal with those annoying “shoulds”, you know the things on the list you found it very difficult to get rid of or cross off because they seemed very important [...] Read more »
De-clutter your mind to give you space to slow down. Part 5: Needs
Well, so far we have got you to capture all the stuff rushing round in your head, so it is out and written down. That probably made you feel much better already! I often carry a notepad with me, so that I can scribble stuff down as I think of them. Makes me feel better. [...] Read more »