coach, writer, educator downshifting, sustainable living, sustainable business
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I couldn’t help noticing it’s lift share week on 4th -8th October and this reminds me that I still haven’t managed to actually do a lift share by advertising my willingness to participate online. This is partly because no-one has ever responded to a lift offer or request that I’ve posted, but also, if I’m [...]
“Life, rather than money, is the appropriate standard for evaluating economic choices and performance.” David Korten (www.davidkorten.org) As a parent, a small business owner and a coach, the theme of competition features regularly as an antagonism. When my children compare themselves unfavourably to others, I want to remind them of their strengths and beautiful uniqueness. [...]
This time of year is traditionally a peak season in the harvesting of grains, fruit and vegetables that grow relatively easily in our British climate. Over the bank holiday weekend, I picked crab apples from our garden and boiled them up to make crab apple jelly. I love the colours and textures of the ripe [...]
Michael sounded perplexed when I asked him what first steps he wanted to take to get his sustainable small business started. “Well, ideally, I’d like to do a,b, and c” he said “…and that’s all very well, but there’s a problem with this plan.” “What’s that?” I asked. “Well, I never do what I say [...]
“To attain knowledge, add things every day. To attain wisdom, remove things every day.” Lao Tzu You know you’d like to reduce your spending, review your cost of living and make do with less, but however much you think about it, nothing seems to spur you into action. What’s stopping you? Being “frugal” – sparing, [...]
“There is more to life than increasing its speed” Gandhi Why have we bought in to convenience? In theory, convenience is supposed to offer us less effort, less responsibility, less time and personal energy used and feelings of being in control. Convenience, or rather the efficiency and ease that we believe it gives us, has [...]
What is sustainable change? I believe it’s when we are able to cultivate a new habit, a novel way of being or doing, and maintain that long term. We might find this very easy to do for some habits, for example finding an alternative route to work and sticking to it, or deciding to wake [...]
This site seeks to explore the heart and soul of downshifting to a more sustainable, ethical and holistic way of living and working, in keeping with the needs of the planet, humanity as a whole and ourselves as individuals. (read more)
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