Adventure, Business, Travel
Have you ever considered turning your life upside down?
Maybe making an erratic change like moving to an entirely new city and leaving everything you knew behind even if just for a little while?
My girlfriend is in the process of turning her life upside down right now.
It takes a lot of guts to make immense changes to your lifestyle and the one word that came to mind when I think of her latest decision to move to Canada is:
Courageous. [Read more…] about Turning Life Upside Down
I don’t know what it is about the terms “rich” and “travel” that society has seemed to put together but unless your talking about how “rich” in thought, character, and experience you will be when you travel, then they have nothing to do with each other.
I was recently watching an old movie called Wall Street and heard Charlie Sheen’s character say he wanted to make insane amounts of money so that he could leave the game and ride his motorcycle across China.
Wait a minute! I rented a motorbike in Indonesia for $3/day so I can assure you that insane amounts of money are not needed to ride across China or any other part of Asia.
Sadly, most people think like this. The experience of travel and vacations has constantly been sold to us with a “cash value”. Somehow society has been coerced into thinking that the experience of travel is intertwined with the amount of money you can spend on such a trip.
What bullshit. [Read more…] about You Don’t Need to Be Rich to Travel
I can’t believe you jumped out of a plane!
This was one of the many reactions I received upon returning from my 6-month adventure through New Zealand and Australia.
I couldn’t really believe it either. It seemed like just a few years ago I was too nervous to get on the rollercoaster in West Edmonton Mall because it went upside down. I never would of thought that I would be scuba diving in the ocean at nighttime or jumping off bridges in New Zealand.
When I look back on life as a kid and as a teenager I can definitely see little bits of the adventurous soul in me but nothing compared to what it is today.
One of the biggest leaps I made that began my journey of self-discovery was packing up my things and moving to another city. I was 20 at the time and was growing tired of the town I had grown up in. It was a rich town where everyone made heaps of money working in the oil industry but for some reason I just didn’t want anything to do with it. I had all these dreams bottled up inside of me of adventure and mystery. I wanted to explore the world and all the amazing things that exist beyond the place I grew up in. I decided to take a leap and move. It was an exciting time leaving home and living on my own in a much bigger city. I enrolled in business school and rented a place right across the street. Life was great. [Read more…] about Tearing My Box to Shreds!
I’m not fat anymore!
It actually took me awhile to realize this.
I grew up as a chunky kid throughout elementary and junior high school and always looked at myself as being out of shape. Even after completing this challenge, I could barely see my changes until I looked at the before-and-after pictures. It’s amazing how our minds can trick us.
After college, I had gained an extra 20 pounds of beer and burger fat and finally decided to commit myself to the 12-week Body-for-Life challenge that I had wanted to do since I was 17. I made a promise to myself that nothing was going to hold me back this time. No parties. No alcohol. No cheating. These 12 weeks would be one of my greatest challenges to date but one worth completing. [Read more…] about Just in Time for the New Year: How to Transform Your body in 12 weeks
Since my 6 month journey down under, I can’t seem to picture my life without the constant curiosity and adventure of long-term travel. Life will never be the same for me. I will never happily be able to ride the migratory route to work each day, live in the same community my whole life, and partake in the everyday average hobbies and activities that have become continuous out of simplicity and habit.
I’ve always wanted to come up with my own term for what I do and the way I feel on the road but really it all comes down to the notion of vagabonding.
Vagabonding, by definition is: (1) The act of leaving behind the orderly world to travel independently for an extended period of time. (2) A privately meaningful manner of travel that emphasizes creativity, adventure, awareness, simplicity, discovery, independence, realism, self-reliance, and the growth of the spirit. (3) A deliberate way of living that makes freedom to travel possible. [Read more…] about Vagabonding: Living the Choice of Freedom & Adventure
Seriously, what would you do?
As easy as this question comes off, I have found it pretty difficult at times to answer. Sometimes I really know what it is but other times I’m undecided. Part of this is because of my interest in so many things.
I honestly love acting and if I could be guaranteed leading roles in comedy flicks, that would be one option. I also love blogging and online entrepreneurship. I seriously love travel. The list could go on.
The trick is, at least for myself, to blend them all into a viable business or focus on one and keep the rest as hobbies.
I think lot’s of people are in the same boat. In fact, I know many people are in the same boat. Many people complain about their jobs or careers because they are not fulfilling. Something is missing. What most don’t do is try to solve it. You don’t have to own your own business. Maybe it’s as simple as working for a different company. Maybe it’s a different field. Maybe you just need to infuse some passions into your current work or business to make it more fulfilling. Maybe you just need to focus on more passions outside of work. [Read more…] about What Would You Do If You Were Guaranteed Success