Mindmap around Early Retirement Extreme

Posted on 2020-07-29 19:52:00+02:00 in contemplation • Written by Arno Peters • Tagged with permaculture, forms of capital, early retirement extreme, saving rate, burn rate, safe withdrawal rate

Mindmap of ERE

  • why is it important to me?
    • freedom to persue my interests
    • takes money out of the decision making process
    • gets me out of the rat race
  • resources
  • insights
    • having no expenses means you don't need an income and you can immediately …

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Contemplation on global economy and society

Posted on 2020-07-26 19:42:00+02:00 in contemplation • Written by Arno Peters • Tagged with contemplation, global economy

Contemplate on the notion that our global economy is alive and can be likened to an animal.

Key insights:

  • alive:
    • requires at least a constant flow of energy to sustain itself
    • emergent behaviour from a large number of smaller elements
    • arises, persists over a period of time, fades away / dies …

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PASTE survey food forest Weverkeshof (2020)

Posted on 2020-07-06 14:39:00+02:00 in surveys • Written by Arno Peters • Tagged with permaculture, food forest design, Nuenen, PASTE, season: summer

This is part of the design for a food forest in Nuenen.

This year we did a new PASTE survey. The data was gathered on 2020-07-06. See also the previous PASTE survey.

In this section we list the available plants, animals, structures, tools and events we have observed directly or …


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PASTE survey allotment garden (2020)

Posted on 2020-06-22 21:00:00+02:00 in surveys • Written by Arno Peters • Tagged with permaculture, survey, PASTE, garden design, Eindhoven, season: summer

Starting from 2018-09-01, Ina and I have rented an allotment at an association nearby. This survey lists the different species discovered in June 2020. For comparison, at two years ago I did the same thing.

This list is part of the ongoing design for the allotment garden.

Plants

  • Aegopodium podagraria …

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Feedback on Workshop Design Your Life

Posted on 2020-05-30 14:35:00+02:00 in workshop • Written by Arno Peters • Tagged with workshop, life design, feedback

The feedback on this page talks about the workshop Design Your Life.

Gábor says

First of all, thank you again for offering the life design workshop. It was well facilitated, well organised, a valueable workshop. I wish you will have more opportunities in the future as an elder in your …


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Contemplation from thought to destiny

Posted on 2020-05-08 20:00:00+02:00 in contemplation • Written by Arno Peters • Tagged with contemplation, meditation

Contemplate the following saying by Lao Tzu:

Sow a thought, reap a word;
Sow a word, reap an action;
Sow an action, reap a habit;
Sow a habit, reap a character;
Sow a character, reap a destiny.

Key insights:

Circle from thought to destiny
  • thoughts and words are predictions (mental formations about the future)
  • habits …

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Workshop Design Your Life

Posted on 2020-02-19 13:53:00+01:00 in workshop • Modified on 2020-11-09 11:13:00+01:00 • Written by Arno Peters • Tagged with workshop, permaculture, 9 ways of observing, forms of capital, bullet journaling, dragon dreaming, dreaming circle, community, life design, social design, 4 questions, vision, mental inventory

This workshop is in response to a question from Ana and Gábor for help with finding direction in their lives. The outline below is based on the process I followed for the design of my own life with additional resources from books, websites and blog posts I have read and …


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Learning Journey

Posted on 2019-11-28 12:13:00+01:00 in tools • Written by Arno Peters

This learning journey or guided journaling is sourced from precencing institute. See their guided journaling description for more details.

1. Challenges:

Look at yourself from outside as if you were another person: What are the 3 or 4 most important challenges or tasks that your life (work and non-work) currently …


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Lessons learned baking bread

Posted on 2019-11-26 09:13:00+01:00 in blog • Written by Arno Peters • Tagged with experiment

I have been making bread regularly since 2017. As I look through the photo's I have made over the years I notice quite a shift in how I do things now versus how I did them when I started out.

Notable changes:

  • I started using more water in my dough …

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Survey of Arno's house (2019)

Posted on 2019-09-21 21:15:00+02:00 in surveys • Written by Arno Peters • Tagged with permaculture, survey, site information, urban design, mapping, building design

Background

Ina and I live in a house in a bloc constructed in 1957. Our house is a terraced house; we share two side walls with our neighbors. The house has three floors: the ground floor, the first floor and the attic.

Over the last years, Ina and I have …


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