100 Ways To Live Slow.
1. Read and respond to email only twice a day, if anything is urgent they’ll phone you
2. Have a garden, even if it’s only an herb garden on the window sill
3. Drive less; walk more
4. Slow down, and really enjoy your food
5. Read before bed
6. Ban fast food, and learn about slow food instead
7. Don’t try to fill up every moment of silence
8. Do one thing at a time, and do it well
9. Set aside time to do nothing at all
10. Give up the notion that being busy equals being important
11. Enroll your children in only one activity at a time
12. Vacation at home, and give the stress of traveling a miss
13. Give up on having it all, and doing it all
14. Forget the past and the future, and live in the right now
15. Have more in-person conversations, and fewer via text or email
16. Own less, so that you’ll have less to maintain
17. Live within your means
18. Have a home you can afford
19. Have a lifestyle you can sustain
20. Learn how to just be
21. Give up on trying to impress others
22. Identify your time wasters, and banish them
23. Identify the things that matter to you, and take care of them before you expend your energy on less important matters
24. Be prepared to live on less
25. Change your thinking about how much you need
26. Go on holidays that rejuvenate you, rather than those that exhaust you
27. Don’t confuse being busy with being productive at work
28. Stay grounded, even if you gain the above
29. Buy less, and reward old fashioned craftsmanship
30. Cultivate hobbies that restore your creativity
31. Redefine a successful life, outside of how the world defines it
32. Don’t be distracted by the latest trends in fashion, gadgets, or technology
33. Don’t be a slave to anything
34. Don’t be embarrassed to say that you’re satisfied with less
35. Learn to create peace within yourself, so that you aren’t swayed by outside chaos
Read more here: http://livethecharmedlife.com/2011/04/100-ways-to-live-slow/.
One Response to “100 Ways To Live Slow.”
June 9th, 2011 at 7:17 pm
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