Slowly Better
Intentional choices for a quieter, richer life. For people who are done with more, and ready for better.
Hi, I’m Dave – welcome.
What this is about
Slowly Better is for people who are done chasing more and instead want to choose better. Better habits, smarter money, a more purposeful life. Not a radical overhaul — just small, deliberate choices that compound over time.
Mind and Calm
Mindfulness, clarity and the quiet habits that make everything else easier.
Money and Freedom
Smart, simple approaches to spending, saving and building a life you can afford to enjoy.
Body and Home
Health without obsession, food worth eating, and a home and life worth coming back to.
What I’ve been writing about
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The Day I Did the Coffee Maths — And Lifestyle Creep Finally Made Sense
There was a time in my career where I had a cafe directly underneath my office. Downstairs, literally next to the lobby door. A few minutes and I could be back at my desk before anyone realised I’d gone. It was, without exaggeration, the single most convenient cafe in my working life. Before I get…
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The Life Pie — A Brutally Honest Look at Where Your Time Actually Goes
A few weeks ago I sat down and did the life pie exercise again — draw a circle, divide it into slices, be honest about where your time actually goes. I’d been putting it off, if I’m honest — not because it’s hard, but because I had a fairly solid idea of what it would…
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How to Declutter Without It Becoming a Personality
There’s an anvil in my nana’s old shed that isn’t going anywhere. It’s too heavy to move, and by the sound of it, always has been. It was there since she and pop moved in (my pop was a metal worker in his earlier years), and it’ll probably be there after whoever buys the house…
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How I Found My Values — And Why It Changed Everything
I was sitting in a work training session I hadn’t particularly wanted to attend when our guest speaker, a sports coach, said something that stopped me cold. It would take me down the path of how to find your values — and I was annoyed it had taken me this long. The room was full…
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Why I Started Gardening (And What It Taught Me About Everything Else)
If you’d asked me why I started gardening, I’m not sure I could have given you a clean answer. But it probably starts here — a section of our yard growing up that we called the fernery. One side of the house, shaded by tall rainforest-style trees, where the light came through in layers and…
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Cooking Simply and Well — What I’ve Learned After Years of Average Meals
There was a cooking class in my first year of high school that I’ve never quite forgotten and has set me on my path of cooking simply at home. It was mandatory for a term — the kind of subject nobody asked for and most people treated as a free period with an oven. But…
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A Simple Approach to Mindfulness — For People Who’ve Already Tried and Quit
I want to start with an admission. The first time someone suggested I try meditation as a simple approach to mindfulness, I mentally filed it under things I’d never do. Along with juice cleanses and networking events. It sounded like something for people who had too much time and not enough problems — a kind…
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Why I Stopped Trying to Optimise My Mornings
My wife pointed out something a few years ago that I haven’t been able to shake. We were on holidays – one of those trips where you actually decompress, sleep properly, and remember what it feels like to not be running on fumes. One day we were laughing about something that didn’t really matter and…
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The Slow Path to Financial Freedom — Why Boring Works
I ‘d like to tell you about a spreadsheet. I know, I know, this is far from a sexy opening. But bear with me. As my wife finished university and started working full time, we were for the first time earning some decent money between us with enough left over at the end of the…
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Buy It Once, Buy It Right
There’s a cobbler I used to visit more than I’d like to admit. That cobbler was the first person to teach me what ‘buy it once, buy it right’ actually means in practice. Every six months or so I’d walk in with another pair of leather work shoes that had given up the ghost. Cracked…
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