Radical Simple Living

Progress has become an empty word. It is used by people who want to sell us something, people who want us to join something, or people who want us to vote for something. What is progress, and what happens if you don't want it? RadicalSimpleLiving@gmail.com

What the future really holds in terms of the economy, stability, the environment, and our personal wealth. All this plus something I've been meaning to chat with you about, lagom!

A house is not a home. You can buy, or rent a house, but you need to make a home. how can your home be a place of simplicity and joy? https://radicalsimpleliving.blogspot.com Contact me at RadicalSimpleLiving@gmail.com 

Simple speech is an important way of communicating what you mean, but it is also a way in which your simple life is displayed to others. Good language, bad language, and hiding behind words. RadicalSimpleLiving@gmail.com

Changes to your lifestyle can make all the difference. In this episode I discuss big changes, and little changes, to move towards towards simpler living. How far do you want to go? How fast do you want go? radicalsimpleliving@gmail.com

The end of Season One - summing up what's been said, what needs to be done, and how to make progress towards radical simplicity!

A major factor in a radical simple lifestyle is looking after what you have. Look after your things, look after your plants, your animals, your family, and yourself. listen to find out more.

Summertime in Småland, southern Sweden. Simple living here is always good, but summer is always the busiest time of the year, here's why....... 

Sometimes things go wrong. Some of these are big things that wreck, or take lives, and many are little things that we need to cope with. How can we do this?

We all have to work. Paid or unpaid, job or career, hate it or love it, alone or part of a team. Our attitude to work determines our success in simple living just like everything else!

You can make the decision to make you lifestyle more simple, but if you have children, or grandchildren, can you motivate them to join you, or do you end up dragging them, unwillingly, along?

Without a doubt, the hardest part of simple living is being part of, or forming, a community.

Many people recognise the importance of rewilding, but most of us leave it to someone else to do. The truth is that you can play a part even if your garden is small, or you have no garden at all!

When we are young we are all idealists, we want to change the world, as we get older we let go of these ideals, or put them on a high shelf, out of reach. Is it possible to live a life where ideals are important, but everyday living is still your priority? The simple answer is yes! The email for questions, to be answered on a future podcast, can be delivered on social media or to radicalsimplelivi...

We all use household appliances, but can we do without them, use them less, or use them more efficiently? If we can do any of these things we can save time, money and help save the planet! 

Living simply involves developing new ways of doing things. Selectively stealing, and modifying older ideas is the way forward. Why reinvent the wheel? Remember, you need to be very selective and search in many places.

The words "plain" and "simple" mean something on their own, but capitalize them and put them together, they mean something quite specific - Plain and Simple. Listen to find out more. https://radicalsimpleliving.blogspot.com/2022/09/plain-dressing.html

We all have changes in our lives, some are natural changes, some are the things we change ourselves, and some are the changes  thrust upon us! How we cope with these changes is perhaps the biggest challenge we have.

Part 2 of 2 about simple ways to look after your health, and how to keep those doctors away. Advice on what to do when things go wrong! https://radicalsimpleliving.blogspot.com/2022/10/radical-simple-health.html

Health is so important for every aspect of our lives. Simple living means putting ourselves in charge of our own health. (Part 1 of 2)

We all wear clothes for a variety of reasons. Simplicity in our clothing is important to us, and important for the planet!

Attitudes are important to simple living, or any living for that matter! Here are four attitudes to work on, and four to work on eliminating! https://radicalsimpleliving.blogspot.com/

Happiness can be so hard to pin down, but we should all be trying to do just that. What can simple living do to help you towards contentedness, joy, and that illusive happiness itself!

Nowhere in your home is simplicity more important than the kitchen. Cooking to produce good, nutritious, healthy, meals is at the very center of simple living!

One criticism of those who aim for a simple life is that they are really trying to live in a mythical golden age. In this podcast I argue that we all live in the past, and that's no problem, we just need to be very selective "cherry pickers". https://www.fulltable.com/vts/aoi/b/badmin/n03.jpg