March 14, 2020

Keep is slow and simple with… a personal pie (chart)

Easy, fun, fast, and strangely enlightening—this week’s slow and simple tip is to make a personal pie chart. Start with your most recent days off. Think about all the ways you spent your time. What got the biggest slice of your time pie? It might be sleep or work or spring cleaning. Did you read or hike or play games? Or maybe you threw on an audiobook and spent hours making focaccia with roasted potatoes, a lemony herbed ricotta, and yes—pie. (OK, that was me.) 

Draw out your slices and have a look. What do you notice? Is it 30 percent sleep? A little (or a lot) more or less? What percent fun and joy? Which slices would you want to make bigger, and which would you want to shrink? Or should you channel Gloria Steinem and bake a whole new pie? 

You can make a pie chart to think through all sorts of things. Chart your trash, your music playlists, or all the ways you unwind. If you need some pie-spiration, check out these charts by Ann Friedman.