When it comes to living life at our own pace, work is a major issue. Most of us will spend half of our waking hours working, and often enough, we won’t really enjoy it. And while it is inevitable to deal with some unpleasant tasks to survive, we often tend to exaggerate. In a perfectionist […]
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How to Live Life at Your Own Pace (Part 2): Communication and Media
Just when you thought that the Tempo Giusto series was dead, here we go again. :) For many of us internet people, finding a comfortable level of communication and media consumption is one of the major challenges on the way of reaching our personal tempo giusto lifestyle. While we enjoy the advantages and luxuries of […]
How to Live Life at Your Own Pace (Part 1): Your Speed of Mind
The first thing to do when converting yourself into a master of your time and live life at your own pace, is to check how your mind feels about that idea. Chances are, not so good. Most of us were raised in a world shockingly similar to what the great German author Michael Ende describes […]
How to Live Life at Your Own Pace: An Introduction
Although the philosophy of Slow was popularized to some extent through the Slow Food Movement and later through Carl Honoré’s best-selling book “In Praise of Slow“, many of us are unsure about how to really implement changes of pace into our 21st century high-speed lifestyle. Sometimes it seems as if Italian futurist visions from over […]
Blogging in Tempo Giusto
Since the beginning of the year, I’m on an information diet. I have dramatically reduced the amount of information I consume on a daily basis by limiting e-mail, prioritizing RSS feeds, scheduling Twitter and news site visits. This diet was boosted involuntarily during the last few days due to a broken internet connection – and […]