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 »
The 3 Keys to a Slow and Happy Life
One of the reasons I stopped blogging so regularly was because, well, I was running out of things to say. You see, the Slow life is the simple life is the easy life. And, so in my quest to become slower, unflustered, uncomplicated and uncluttered, I often found that I was practicing the same things [...] 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 »
Welcome to the Slow Life LIVE FROM CARDIFF
As promised to all of those that wanted to attend my talk last Saturday (31st October) at the Vision for Living Festival in Cardiff, but couldn’t make it (and for those that attended and want to hear it again!), the audio is now available as a SlowCast. This is the first podcast for a long [...] 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 »
Gone Away…
I am away until the 8th September, normal service will resume then! Matt Read more »
Saint Monday
I am celebrating Saint Monday and will be back tomorrow. Matt PS, I am finally getting round to (a long awaited) update of the static pages on the site. Hopefully be finished in the next few weeks and will keep you informed of my progress in the blog. Read more »
10 Ways You Can Slow Down This Weekend
1. Stop and look around. Just take 5 minutes to stop and “smell the roses”, look around, stare out of the window, just remind yourself this is your life and it is happening NOW! 2. Relax! Because that is what is all about isn’t it? The more relaxed you are the more energy you will [...] Read more »
Getting Rid of Want 4: What Wouldn’t You Change?
In this final part of “getting rid of want” I just want to discuss one final idea to help you deal with cravings. To be honest, I really should have talked about this in the first blog entry of this series when I was discussing Gratitude, but I forgot all about it! So, it is [...] Read more »
Your Slow Hour
The one key thing to remember about Slowing Down is to not do it too fast! You need to slow down slowly… If you try and do too much all at once (as we have a tendency and conditioning to do in our hare-brained society) you will just become overwhelmed and end up giving up [...] Read more »