Walk the Pod: 10 minute walking

You can just hear an air ambulance taking off from the helipad at St George’s hospital at the end of this episode. A voicenote from Dad reminds us to prioritise tasks or achieve little!

Walking around my local streets grumbling about the weather. It’s the Walk the Pod way! Plus an exploration of how much time we spend seeking validation from others.

Never minding what happens could be the secret to contentment and calm. A 10 minute walk around the park behind the hospital considering slow productivity.

What if all procrastination is just ideas marinading? What if we were to trust that if we’re not doing something, it is because the time is not quite right? This 10 minute lunchtime walk features these and other thoughts from your host, Rachel Wheeley, Mighty Marcel in the Netherlands and Kiwi Rob in New Zealand.

We expect to work from home now unless our job makes that impossible. This 10 minute walking episode considers: whether that lends itself to slow productivity.

Austin Kleon’s wonderful book ’Show Your Work’ is the focus of today’s daily walking episode of Walk the Pod. Get away from your desk for just 10 minutes and work out how to have every piece of work you do contribute to the others.

Three messages from Cal Newport on slow productivity.

This 10 minute walking episode considers Jim Collins’ flywheel, a terrific slow productivty tool.

This 10 minute lunchtime walk considers: What does slow productivity mean to you? Is it achievable in our increasingly busy world? A stroll around the park behind the hospital in surprisingly high winds.

Series 46 is on the way! Join me from Monday 15 April for the first of ten daily walking episodes to make your daily walk that little bit easier. We’ll be discussing ‘slow productivity’, what is it and why might it be important?

Walking my local streets and thanking you for listening from the bottom of my heart. I’ll be back in April with Series 46. Join the Walk the Pod Lunchtime Walk Club: https://www.patreon.com/rachelwheeley

Walking around my local streets asking whether positively attacking uncertainty with plans is just as much an inability to cope with it as being scared and trying to get away, or hoping the uncertainty itself will go away.

A walk around my local streets this lunchtime and a chance encounter with a black and white cat.

Walking my local streets thinking about radical self-trust this lunchtime. Is uncertainty a consequence of doubt?

Walking around the park behind the hospital this lunchtime and thinking about whether uncertainty is always a negative thing, thanks to a prompt from Sam.

I very much enjoyed Heather Havrilesky’s latest ‘Ask Polly’ column about remaining in uncertainty, and recommend it whole-heartedly to you. I’ve published it in the Walk the Pod lunchtime walk club Discord this lunchtime. Access the post via walkthepod.com

Considering whether uncertainty might be a necessary precondition for joy as I walk round the park behind the hospital in South West London this lunchtime.

Pounding my local streets thinking about navigating a decade of ‘getting good’ at our craft.

Walking around the park behind the hospital and considering the yhoughts of Warren Buffet who said that uncertainty is everywhere.

Walking around the park behind the hospital, thinking about uncertainty and leadership this lunchtime. Welcome to Series 45.

Making commitments and re-committing regularly to them can be incredibly powerful and give us extra headspace to think beyond how to get from one end of the day to another. A little potter around the park.

How can we enjoy the same walk over and over again, particularly when it’s grey, mis and raining? Some thoughts on constancy in difficult circumstances.

People can be tricky to know, love and work with. On today’s episode, as I walk around my local streets, I consider whether one of the challenges to constancy is other people, and how to turn up day after day for them with unconditional positive regard, love and kindness.

To do the things we want to do, we must work out what our priorities are and carve out space for our most important work. Not just once, but repeatedly. Today, constancy and proactivity.

Walking around the park behind the hospital and thinking about constancy and iteration