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03/06/12, 03:18 PM
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It will just happen by itself. Slowly your muscles will ache then your bones will start creaking. Your eyes will go bad and you will find yourself having to ask people to repeat what they just said. After a while you will have trouble bending over and then one day you will pee your pants. Then you will slow down because everything hurts and you are always tired.
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03/06/12, 03:57 PM
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Hi everyone
I was just thinking about this on Sunday and wondering to myself. I have been working 2 jobs (6 days a week) since 1981 and I guess I am kinda high strung kinda guy so I am always rushing rushing and rushing somemore. Basically I bought into this suburban lifestyle but I have a plan to be out in the NE Kansas area in the end of 2015 to start a more back to the earth lifestyle.
I was spreading horse poop to make my bed for my corn this season on Sunday and dont you know...I am pushing and rushing again..huffing and puffing and counting the minutes it took to load a wheel barrel etc etc etc...
So how do I slow down when I get there (the country life)??? I have this hurry and rush rush so ingrained in my nature...how so I back up and "smell the roses" as they say??
Any insight would be greatly appreciated.
MikeC
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I found that the difference was not in what I was doing or how much I had to do but rather where I was doing it. When you love your land you work from sunup to sundown and beyond and it does not seem like work. In actual fact you are probably going to work harder and longer than you ever did at a "job" but you will not have the demands of people pulling you here and there. Of course most animals are very demanding and impatient.
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03/06/12, 04:04 PM
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It isn't so much that you slow down. It is a different kind of work and a different kind of stress. Get these last tomatoes harvested, it's gonna freeze tonight. Help deliver this calf/kid/lamb before somebody dies. Get something planted before it rains. Get things secured before a thunderstorm hits. Different deadlines and pressures, but deadlines and pressures nonetheless. And a whole lot better view!
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03/06/12, 08:04 PM
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You stop and smell the roses when you bend over to pull the weeds from around them.
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03/06/12, 10:10 PM
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Originally Posted by mikec4193
Hi everyone
I was just thinking about this on Sunday and wondering to myself. I have been working 2 jobs (6 days a week) since 1981 and I guess I am kinda high strung kinda guy so I am always rushing rushing and rushing somemore. Basically I bought into this suburban lifestyle but I have a plan to be out in the NE Kansas area in the end of 2015 to start a more back to the earth lifestyle.
I was spreading horse poop to make my bed for my corn this season on Sunday and dont you know...I am pushing and rushing again..huffing and puffing and counting the minutes it took to load a wheel barrel etc etc etc...
So how do I slow down when I get there (the country life)??? I have this hurry and rush rush so ingrained in my nature...how so I back up and "smell the roses" as they say??
Any insight would be greatly appreciated.
MikeC
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................Mother Nature and Father Time will take care "IT" , so don't worry , and Should you not heed their warnings your heart will pay the price ! , fordy
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03/10/12, 12:08 AM
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Establish limits. You don't HAVE to go on growing your operation beyond what you need, and a safety buffer.
Put a lot of energy into thinking and planning, so that when you do get off your butt you can do things efficiently, with least effort and least time.
Practice meditation. Hurry up and frantically slow your breathing, deep even breaths, empty your mind, and relax.
Tai chi.
Hunting and fishing. Even bird-watching, or camera-hunting. Gets you out in the open, doing something but not much beyond just carefully moving, and watching and listening and maybe smelling carefully. There are more effective ways to get wild food, but these work, and the real idea is to involve you for a good length of time.
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03/10/12, 12:30 AM
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I was the worlds worst aggressive driver. I was AWFUL! I am actually quite ashamed at how I was. I am appalled. I drove a cab in Boston for a couple years and when I left for the country....
Just trust me, many people have wished evil things upon my head LOL!
After living in the country for a couple months I suddenly found myself avoiding the interstate. And when I did take it, I'd just stay in the right lane and take my time. It just happened. I can hardly believe I was that person, but I was.
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03/10/12, 03:20 AM
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Originally Posted by mikec4193
Hi everyone
I was just thinking about this on Sunday and wondering to myself. I have been working 2 jobs (6 days a week) since 1981 and I guess I am kinda high strung kinda guy so I am always rushing rushing and rushing somemore. Basically I bought into this suburban lifestyle but I have a plan to be out in the NE Kansas area in the end of 2015 to start a more back to the earth lifestyle.
I was spreading horse poop to make my bed for my corn this season on Sunday and dont you know...I am pushing and rushing again..huffing and puffing and counting the minutes it took to load a wheel barrel etc etc etc...
So how do I slow down when I get there (the country life)??? I have this hurry and rush rush so ingrained in my nature...how so I back up and "smell the roses" as they say??
Any insight would be greatly appreciated.
MikeC
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Just figure out what tasks you have to get done each day without killing yourself, and do it at an easy pace, or rush it and take the rest of the day off..
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03/10/12, 11:57 AM
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What is this 'slowing down' stuff? Unless your going to be a "gentleman farmer" [paying locals to do all the sweaty stuff] if you slow down, you lose... Go the self sufficient route, and you'll need to speed up, just to keep from falling behind. 
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03/11/12, 07:55 PM
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What is this 'slowing down' stuff? Unless your going to be a "gentleman farmer" [paying locals to do all the sweaty stuff] if you slow down, you lose... Go the self sufficient route, and you'll need to speed up, just to keep from falling behind. |
Hey Texican....
This is just what I am doing now...run run run...and then run somemore..I have been on this hampster wheel forever and I have learned one from my race car stuff and that is if you keep doing something over and over again and nothing is changing it is time to change something...so what I am hoping to be able to grow more of my own food...get way away from the suburban area I am currently living in...listen to nothing instead of the drone of car/truck/ airplane noises that I currently hear all the time....I am not lazy...I can work circles around most people my age....Just hoping to slow down the pace a little before I die from this lifestyle.
MikeC
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03/11/12, 08:03 PM
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Today helped a lot. It was one of those perfect Spring days. It does take an adjustment to get out of the city mode. I'm still trying to figure it all out.
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03/12/12, 08:23 AM
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I've always been a hyper person, so I can relate. Nothing wrong w/ staying busy and having full days. But when it's accompanied by stress, you're asking for trouble. Because the 'hampster wheel' mentality is so ingrained, it sounds like you'll have to intentionally make yourself slow down.....at least enough that you're actually enjoying the busy-ness and finding fulfillment in it. Keep reminding yourself...it's OK to slow down, it's OK if you don't finish every task today. Do each task with deliberateness rather than just rushing to get it finished. You'll be amazed at how much you've been missing simply because you were moving too fast to notice. 
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I was thinking about this last few days. I think part of it may be that since we are retired we think we have a lot more time to do things and start expecting way to much. And seeing as how we have nothing to gauge the timeline of our accomplishments speed like you do at work ya get to thinkin your not goin and gettin enough done.
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