Coaching practices for Slow Living at Work
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- I end the day exhausted and feeling like I worked hard, but when I look back it was all email, admin, and little errands
- There’s a dead patch every afternoon where my brain just won’t do anything demanding
- The dull repetitive chores are where I check out completely
- The good parts of my day are happening but I’m never actually in them
- My whole day is fast, frictionless, on a screen, and my mind never actually lands anywhere
Practices that may help
- Slow Living, Made Practical
Slow living is the deliberate choice to move through life at an intentional pace — doing fewer things with more presence instead of maximizing throughput. It grew out of the Slow Food movement and is best understood mechanistically: pace is a lever on attention and savoring, not a clinically proven treatment. - Drain the shallows
Aggressively limit and batch low-value shallow work so it doesn’t crowd out deep work.
Deep Work, Made Practical - Save admin tasks for your cognitive trough
Assign low-cognition administrative tasks to the time of day when your focus is naturally lowest.
Task Batching: Grouping Similar Work to Cut Switching Costs - Re-engage boring tasks by finding a process goal
Replace “finish this boring thing” with a craft goal that makes the process worth attending to.
Mind Wandering and the Default Mode Network - Savoring everyday moments
Deliberately stretch and attend to ordinary good experiences instead of rushing past them.
Slow Living, Made Practical - Slowing down with handmade and natural materials
Spend time working with materials that resist efficiency — clay, soil, wood, tea — as a counter to the speed of optimised life.
Wabi-Sabi: Finding Beauty in Imperfection - Default to asynchronous communication
Treat real-time communication as the exception, not the default — most things do not require an immediate response.
Designing a Calm Company (Fried & Hansson) - Calibrate challenge to skill
Adjust task difficulty until it sits just above your current competence — not so easy you drift, not so hard you freeze.
Flow and Meaning: Csikszentmihalyi’s Framework - Single-tasking on purpose
Do one thing at a time, fully, instead of half-doing several.
Slow Living, Made Practical - Oscillate between effort and recovery
Pulse hard work with real recovery instead of grinding in a flat line.
The Power of Full Engagement, Made Practical
Related concerns
- How To Practice Slow Living
Slow living is the deliberate choice to move through life at an intentional pace — doing fewer things with more presence instead of maximizing throughput. It grew out of the Slow Food movement and is best understood mechanistically: pace is a lever on attention and savoring, not a clinically proven treatment.
- How To Slow Down Life
Slow living is the deliberate choice to move through life at an intentional pace — doing fewer things with more presence instead of maximizing throughput. It grew out of the Slow Food movement and is best understood mechanistically: pace is a lever on attention and savoring, not a clinically proven treatment.
- Meaning In Repetitive Work
Identify a repetitive, seemingly pointless task — and choose to inhabit it fully rather than escaping it.
Find the Sisyphus move in your own work
- Slow Living As A Caregiver
Slow living is the deliberate choice to move through life at an intentional pace — doing fewer things with more presence instead of maximizing throughput. It grew out of the Slow Food movement and is best understood mechanistically: pace is a lever on attention and savoring, not a clinically proven treatment.
- Slow Living With My Team
Slow living is the deliberate choice to move through life at an intentional pace — doing fewer things with more presence instead of maximizing throughput. It grew out of the Slow Food movement and is best understood mechanistically: pace is a lever on attention and savoring, not a clinically proven treatment.
- What Is Slow Living
Slow living is the deliberate choice to move through life at an intentional pace — doing fewer things with more presence instead of maximizing throughput. It grew out of the Slow Food movement and is best understood mechanistically: pace is a lever on attention and savoring, not a clinically proven treatment.
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