I'm Ben McAllery and welcome to episode 218, where we're going to discuss slow by name and slow by

nature. Yeah, so this has come about partly as a result of last week's hostful, where we did the

live hostful, which was very fun. It was fun on Facebook. Yeah. I really like doing the Facebook live video.

And also as a result of the retreat, the Live Life Simply retreat, which has just wrapped up,

this has been one of the big realizations that I'm seeing a lot of people making.

And I think that it's, it's an important thing that maybe we don't talk about all that

often that the idea of slow living is often kind of packaged up in this really pretty

idealistic kind of package that is sold as a solution to all of our problems and issues and stresses in this

modern, hectic, full, busy life. And the realization that I'm seeing people come to, which

makes me really happy because it's been something that I have worked to unpack and, you know, accept myself is that living a

slower life and walking the path of living a slower life is a slow process. There is,

I see so many people rushing to get to slow as quickly as possible that they are tying themselves up in knots when

that doesn't happen.

So that's really what we want to talk about today.

Absolutely.

Let's get into it.

Thank you. So you've hit the nail on the head.

What we're talking about is the journey rather than the destination because you think that,

and I'm totally guilty of this, and I think you are as well, as you see the end game and you are constantly trying to work towards that end game, that you don't actually

see life for what it is and you don't take the time to process through things which can then

stop you really or prevent you from reaching that end game. It's like it's the I'll be happy

whens. I'll be happy when we have less stuff in the house. I'll be happy when we've paid off the credit card.

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