Slow Growth Podcast: Recent Episodes
Dave Wolovsky
Listen to the Slow Growth Podcast for ideas on how to increase aliveness. More aliveness means better relationships with others, with yourself, and with your goals.
New episode every 2 weeks.
Music by Dave Wolovsky AKA Wo.Love (https://soundcloud.com/wo-love-sky)
This episode describes how to live a healthy life.
Hint: it's good to take your own advice.
Here are the steps laid out in the track on how to make a mini habit.
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State the goal using one of the following verbs. Get, build, create, or become. For example, get a hot tub, build a business, create a new method for tying your shoes, become a pop star.
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Pull up the image of your life goal in your mind. Get a clear view of what it looks like, what you look like with it achieved. Force yourself to visualize the details for a few minutes. Steep yourself in it.
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Answer this question: What do you love about this goal? What are the most important features of it, necessary to consider it achieved? Like if you didn't have these pieces, it would not be complete.
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Rewrite the 3 most essential of those essential features, as concisely as possible, in 1-3 words each. Get these right for yourself. They are the essences you want to bring into your life right away and keep in your life every day from today on. If you do, you'll achieve your goal, or even better ones.
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Think of a big habit that, if you did it every day, those goal essences would be fully integrated into your life. Remember, if they are in your life every day, you'll achieve your goals. What habit would bring one or more of them fully into your life? Write that habit down.
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Take the habit and shrink it down so that it's so small it sounds like barely doing anything at all, a mere shadow of the big habit. Consider yourself on your very worst day, in which you feel like you have no energy, no patience, no friends, no Aliveness. On that day, you should still be able to do the mini habit. Write down your mini habit.
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Commit to doing the habit every day. On days when you happen to have energy, having done this tiny habit, you'll do more of it easily. On your worst days, you'll be grateful that you just have to do the mini version. Doing it every day will slowly but definitely begin to change the fabric of your life. You will be moving inexorably toward your big life goals and it won't be difficult.
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Choose a tracking system for your mini habit. Make sure you do it every day. Use a calendar app of some kind that reminds you every day, and you can check it off as done, or use a physical calendar and Mark each day with an X at the end of the day if you've completed your mini habit.
How well you do at something today means nothing compared to how likely you are to continue doing it tomorrow, and all the days after that.
Selfishness and Selflessness are more similar than you may have thought.
Since everything in life is a relationship, sustainability is the highest goal. Balance is the highest virtue.
To get healthier and happier, we need to pursue balance. Understanding how and why things are out of balance is key to getting there.
This episode is about how mental chaos leads to tension and dysfunction in the body, which creates a vicious circle because physical stress causes more mental stress.
There is a simple way to separate them, to quarantine mental stress in the mind, while protecting and body, and allowing for the mind to solve its problems more effectively.
Listen to learn the equation of sustainable growth. Mastering the equation allows you to master growth of all kinds.
Let's get deep, to the heart of the issue. What is the most worthwhile pursuit in life?
This episode is about how to turn good habits into newer, even more growthful ones, with ease.
The brain is constantly working. Any rest we can give it leads to more sustainable growth.
Pausing and breathing, finding presence, is a simple, effective way to increase sustainable growth for your brain and mind.
There are challenges though, as finding presence always means doing something completely new.
This episode gets to the heart of Slow Growth. It is based on the idea of treating ourselves and others as "living processes." Once we understand what it means to be a living process, we can approach growth more easily.
It also goes into the 3 principles that build the foundation for Slow Growth as a method of personal growth.
This episode describes what presence is and how it is crucial to finding peace. Finding peace in the present moment is what enables us to move through life with more ease and joy, while growing and pursuing our goals without suffering.
This is our first example of how a slow growth mindset might be used to create peaceful, joyful, sustainable growth in your life.