Walk the Pod: 10 minute walking

Walking around the park behind the hospital this lunchtime and considering whether there is something unique about gifts. Do they carry within them a responsibility to pass them on, could they, as some peoples believe, have a soul?

Walking around the park behind the hospital this lunchtime and recalling a folk tale from my childhood reimagined as an allegory about gifts and what we need to do to realise them.

A trailer for Series 50 of Walk the Pod on ‘Gifts’ which starts tomorrow, Monday 16 September. Each 10 minute episode tempts you away from your desk to walk in nature for just 10 minutes. I look forward to kicking off the new series tomorrow lunchtime and thank you for walking with me. https://walkthepod.com

A walking report from Whitstable! Series 49 will be for susbscribers to the Walk the Pod walking club and starts on Monday 19 August. A full series for everyone will follow in September.

Wrapping up the series with a big thank you to members of the Walk the Pod lunchtime walk club. We’ll be walking again on Monday 19 August with a subscriber only mini series. Join the club via https://www.walkthepod.com

Walking my local streets in blazing sunshine this lunchtime and wrapping up our second week of creativity episodes. Want more from Walk the Pod? Join the club: https://patron.podbean.com/walkthepod

Walking my local streets exploring something Keats once said about ‘negative capability.’

In today’s daily walking episode, Rob’s voicenote references Hugh McLeod and the Blue Microsoft Monster, ‘Change the world or go home.’ Temple Grandin’s brain is creatively worlds apart from my own - how does yours work?

Walking around the park behind the hospital demystifying creativity. Could creativity just be connecting things? Could our limitations be our creative strengths?

Walking around the park behind the hospital, rounding up our first week of creativity episodes with voicenotes from Mum and Robin in New Zealand.

Walking my local streets thinking about creativity and mastery this lunchtime. Is subversiveness required for creative genius?

Walking around the park behind the hospital considering creativity and imitation this lunchtime.

Some more thoughts on creativity and perfectionism. Perhaps some perfectionism is ok. Walking around the park behind the hospital in the rain this GratiTuesday.

Walking around the park behind the hospital arguing that perfectionism is the enemy of creativity. With your host, Rachel Wheeley

Walking my local streets thanking you and members of the Walk the Pod lunchtime walk club for walking with me this month. Series 48 will start on Monday 8 July. Take care of your beautiful mind and I’ll speak to you soon.

Walking around the park behind the hospital rounding up our series on curiosity. Plus a walking report from Mighty Marcel in Barcelona.

Walking around my local streets this lunchtime thinking about curiosity and how it requires rigor for creativity. Plus a voicenote from Dad in rural Norfolk.

Walking around the park behind the hospital in the rain this lunchtime considering whether curiosity might be all we have as knowledge workers and artists as technology increasingly does all the work for us.

Walking around the park sharing a voicenote from Kiwi Rob on the subject of inter generational curiosity gaps, the right to tinker, and whether curiosity could be the antidote to loneliness.

A summary of topics covered in week 1 of Series 47 of Walk the Pod, recorded at the Paddock allotments in South West London.

Walking around the park behind the hospital this lunchtime and thinking about curiosity and the extent to which we should follow it. Absolutely, say artists like Abigail Thorn.

Walking around my local streets with tales of the curious life of Anne Lister, quero, scholar, and mountaineer.

Exploring the curiosity or knowledge gap, a concept coined by Chip and Dan Heath and backed up by science. Curiosity might be the key to effective learning. Your daily walking podcast with Rachel Wheeley.

Walking around the park behind the hospital this lunchtime considering whether curiosity is a good or a bad thing to kick off the new series.

Walking around the park behind the hospital this lunchtime and thinking about stopping in order to return. The final episode of this series of Walk the Pod.

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