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The Tortoise with Brooke McAlary

Slow December #3

The Tortoise with Brooke McAlary

Brooke McAlary

Education, Personal Journals, Society & Culture, Self-improvement

4.6525 Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2016

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

In the final Slow Home Experiment episode of 2016, Brooke and Ben talk about their efforts in making December as slow as possible. (Is it possible?)

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to the Slow Home podcast.

0:04.0

This is episode number 129.

0:08.8

Feeling fine with 129.

0:11.9

And yes, I will do this to every single pog past that we've got.

0:16.3

Okay.

0:17.2

I look forward to it.

0:18.3

Feeling dirty with 130.

0:50.8

Okay. I look forward to it. Feeling dirty with one third. Ha ha ha ha ha. So here we are sitting down recording episode 1-29 all about slowing down for the month of December.

0:53.7

And how are you going? Good, actually. I think, you know, the first week was

0:58.6

I probably needed a reminder to slow down. So this experiment has come at a good time,

1:05.2

which is why we chose to do it. But it's been, it's been good. Actually, I think just having it,

1:09.9

like most of our experiments this year, having it at top

1:12.8

of mind has made a difference to the choices that I've been making on a day-to-day basis.

1:17.6

And really, that's what I've realized this year is that making a change or adopting something into our life doesn't look necessarily like this big thing.

1:29.7

Like it's not a big shiny thing.

1:30.8

Trumpets don't blare every time you do it.

1:32.5

It's just the daily doing and the daily remembering.

1:36.5

Yeah.

1:36.9

It's not, it doesn't have to be a big deal.

1:38.7

And I think the ones that stick and the ones that kind of slot nicely into your life don't necessarily

1:45.9

need to be that that kind of big trumpet-blairing deal so it's been it's been really great

1:51.7

look it's almost position is everything every experiment that we've done this year has all

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