Slow Living Blog for the Good Life

Our monthly Slow Living Blog explores the benefits of Slow Living and offers practical tips for creating the good life. You will find a link to this month's essay below as well as archives of past essays. For more on these topics visit Slow Movement and Slow Living. Also see all our Slow updates and news.

This Month

May 2012 - Welcome to Open Space - This month's essay describes the fertile territory where 'new' happens: open space.

Archives

Here's a complete list of Slow Living essays arranged by topic, followed by a chronological archive of slow living blog posts.

           General                    Money & Resources
           Awareness              Happiness & Well Being
           Design                      Creativity & Learning
           Practice                   Less is More
           Time                         Green Home Remodeling

General
What is the Good Life? - Key elements of the good life and the Good Life Assessment Flower.
Dancing with Awareness, Design and Practice - A design approach for creating a slower life.
Embracing Your Inner Slow Life Designer - Slow Design and how we design our own lives.
Finding Balance on the Cutting Edge - Ways to bring your life into balance.
Busy Being Happy? - Focusing your busy-ness where it counts.
Enough! - Finding the joy in enough.

Awareness
Know Thy Self - Increasing self-awareness is key to creating the good life.
What's Your Story? - The values and pitfalls of the stories we tell ourselves.
Dancing with Awareness, Design and Practice - A design approach for creating a slower life.
Tracking Your Personal Happiness - Getting specific about what makes you happy.
Busy Being Happy? - Focusing your busy-ness where it counts.
Becoming a Pattern Detective - Discover how patterns can and do shape your life.

Design
Welcome to Open Space - The fertile territory where 'new' happens.
Life On The Edge - How the concept of Edge can help simplify our lives.
A Simple Plan - How to create a plan for making changes in your life.
New and Improved: Your Creative Life - Becoming more creative in your daily life.
Dancing with Awareness, Design and Practice - A design approach for creating a slower life.
Embracing Your Inner Slow Life Designer - Slow Design and how we design our own lives.
Becoming a Pattern Detective - Discover how patterns can and do shape your life.

Practice
Busy Being Happy? - Focusing your busy-ness where it counts.
The Giving and Receiving Spiral - What it takes to create an upward spiral.
In Praise of Maintenance - Appreciating the value of maintenance.
Life On The Edge - How the concept of Edge can help simplify our lives.
Finding Balance on the Cutting Edge - Ways to bring your life into balance.
Flex Your Improv Muscle - Honing improv skills for healthy, flexible responses to life.
Slow Tech - Just Say "Not Now" - Balancing our technology with face–to–face connections.
From Friending to Friendships - Valuing and nurturing friendships in your life.
Ch-ch-ch-ch-Changes! - Strategies for more successful change.
Being Current and Feeling Groovy - How to create better flow in your life.
Lessons from Staycations and Secular Sabbaths - Bring the feel of vacations into daily life.
Wishing you a Slow (Holiday) Season! - Using the season to practice Slow Living.

Time
It's About Time - Your time profile and ways to manage time.
Making Time for The Good Life - Prioritizing to create time to focus on the good things in life.
Lessons from Staycations and Secular Sabbaths - Bring the feel of vacations into daily life.

Money & Resources
Enough! - Finding the joy in enough.
The Relationship Economy - An economy of trading, sharing, gifting, and money.
The Giving and Receiving Spiral - What it takes to create upward spiral.
Be Resourceful - Ways we can be more resourceful in our daily lives.
Making Sense of Dollars - Ways to get your personal finances under control.
The Sharing Solution - The many ways sharing can enhance your life.

Happiness & Well Being
What is the Good Life? - Key elements of the good life and the Good Life Assessment Flower.
Cheap Thrills: The Art and Science of Savoring - Simple ways to savor life more.
How to Have a Happier New Year - Twelve ways to be happier in the New Year.
Tracking Your Personal Happiness - Getting specific about what makes you happy.
Busy Being Happy? - Focusing your busy-ness where it counts.

Creativity & Learning
Welcome to Open Space - The fertile territory where 'new' happens.
New and Improved: Your Creative Life - Becoming more creative in your daily life.
Flex Your Improv Muscle - Honing improv skills for healthy, flexible responses to life.
The Thrill of Learning - Rediscovering your innate joy of learning.

Less is More
Enough! - Finding the joy in enough.
Life On The Edge - How the concept of Edge can help simplify our lives.
Be Resourceful - Ways we can be more resourceful in our daily lives.
The High Cost of More - Why more isn't so good anymore and less really is better.
Elegant Sufficiency: Finding Enough in a World of Too Much - The relationship between house size and having enough. It includes suggestions for right sized rooms and homes.

Green Home Remodeling
Why Remodeling May Not Make You As Happy As You Think - The psychological dimensions of our impulse to remodel and strategies for better decision making.
When A Green Remodel May Not Be So Green - Why we desire more space in our homes and low impact ways to find and create that space.

Chronological Archive

2012
May - Welcome to Open Space - The fertile territory where 'new' happens.
April - Enough! - Finding the joy in enough.
March - The Relationship Economy - An economy of trading, sharing, gifting, and money.
February - Becoming a Pattern Detective - How patterns can and do shape your life.
January - Busy Being Happy? - Focusing your busy-ness where it counts.

2011
December - The Giving and Receiving Spiral - What it takes to create an upward spiral.
November - Life On The Edge - Appreciating the value of maintenance.
October - Life On The Edge - How the concept of Edge can help simplify our lives.
September - The Thrill of Learning - Rediscovering your innate joy of learning.
August - Tracking Your Personal Happiness - Getting specific about what makes you happy.
July - Finding Balance on the Cutting Edge - Ways to bring your life into balance.
June - Flex Your Improv Muscle - Honing improv skills for healthy, flexible responses to life.
May - Be Resourceful - Ways we can be more resourceful in our daily lives.
April - Slow Tech - Just Say "Not Now" - Balancing technology & face–to–face connections.
March - Making Time for The Good Life - Strategies for prioritizing and managing your time.
February - From Friending to Friendships - Valuing and nurturing friendships in your life.
January - How to Have a Happier New Year - Twelve ways to be happier in the New Year.

2010
December - Wishing you a Slow (Holiday) Season! - Using the season to practice
             Slow Living to savor life, find meaning, and connect more.
November - What's Your Story? - The values and pitfalls of the stories we tell ourselves.
October - Know Thy Self - Increasing self-awareness is key to creating the good life.
September - New and Improved: Your Creative Life - Becoming more creative.
August - Lessons from Staycations and Secular Sabbaths - Bring the feel of vacations into
             your daily life.
July - Dancing with Awareness, Design and Practice - A design approach for life.
June - Being Current and Feeling Groovy - How to create better flow in your life.
May - The Sharing Solution - The many ways sharing can enhance your life.
April - Cheap Thrills: The Art and Science of Savoring - Simple ways to savor life more.
March - Making Sense of Dollars - Ways to get your personal finances under control.
February - The High Cost of More - Why less really is more and more is not always better.
January - Ch-ch-ch-ch-Changes! - Strategies for more successful change.

2009
December - It's About Time - Your time profile and ways to manage time.
November - A Simple Plan - How to create a plan for change.
October - What is the Good Life? - Key elements and assessment flower.