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LL 005: A Live limitless Interview with Tyler Tervooren

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In the fifth episode of the Live Limitless podcast I chat with Tyler Tervooren, the man behind Advanced Riskology and Brew Pony.

Tyler Tervooren writes about smart risk-taking at his blog Advanced Riskology, where he inspires people to embrace uncertainty, take more risks, and live remarkably . Tyler is also a key part of the rapidly growing World Domination Summit held in Portland each year and just launched his new business Brew Pony, which is responsible for sending Portland’s finest coffee to households all over the United States.

Tyler wasn’t born into internet stardom. He grew up a living a typical conventional life, went to college, got a useful degree and then a good job. However, Tyler always felt like there was something more and when he was laid off, he committed to changing his life and helping others do the same.

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A World of Inspiration – The E-Book

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Alas, it is finally complete and ready for you to enjoy.

Introduction

A few years back I found myself feeling very down about life. I had realized that I had wasted some key years and had very little adventure in my life. I no longer wanted to be where I was and I wanted to start experiencing all the wonderful things the world has to offer. I had to make a change.

So I moved to another city and started a new life. I began to try things I never would have before. Things like learning how to dance salsa, trying out for the olympic speed skating team, white water rafting, and auditioning for movies. I also conquered 2 things that had been on my mind for 6 years; Lose weight and go to Australia.

I competed in the Body-for-Life challenge and dropped my body fat percentage from 22% to 10%. I also gained 7 pounds of muscle and lost 22 pounds of fat. After this, I left for Australia and New Zealand, spending 6 months doing crazy things like skydiving, bungy jumping, cave abseiling, hang-gliding, scuba diving, climbing volcanoes, camping in the mountains for days, kayaking the Abel Tasman sea, and jumping in on road trips with people I just met.

Life was exciting and I became a new person. I learned so much about myself and that experience has led me to chase adventure for the rest of my life.

I then started A World of Inspiration. This blog helped introduce me to other amazing people all around the world who are following their dreams and living remarkable lives. [Read more…] about A World of Inspiration – The E-Book

Who Wants to Jump Off a Bridge This June?

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Nervously Smiling as I await my 130 foot jump off the Auckland bridge.

It’s hard to explain the emotions I was going through as I began my ascent to the top of the Auckland Bridge in Auckland, New Zealand. It was only 3 weeks before this that I jumped out of a plane at 15,000 feet. Why would jumping off a bridge from just 130 feet up scare me?

We’ll, all I can say is that jumping off a bridge was far more terrifying to me than jumping out of a plane. My heart was pounding and my palms were sweaty. As the instructor told me what I needed to do, I felt almost paralyzed. My main hope was to make it back up to the bridge.

As my name was called, I remember that feeling in my chest. Not just butterflies but thousands of angry ones fluttering around in my stomach. I could imagine my body wondering why I would put it through something like this.

I had the bungy strapped to my ankles like ankle cuffs which made it hard to walk out to the ledge. I felt like I was a prisoner being walked out to the plank by pirates waiting to throw me to the bottom of the sea.

There I was, finally reaching the ledge of the platform, standing more than 130 feet above the ocean. The instructor told me to smile for the camera which I tried nervously to do while all my muscles were concentrating on the fall I was about to experience. My knees were trembling out of control and I felt like I wouldn’t have the energy or the ability to jump if I wanted to.

I remember that the instructor told me to jump as soon as they said 3 because:

A. If I hesitated, I may never jump; and

B. They monitor all the sailboats passing underneath and wouldn’t want me jumping into one.

and with that, they began the count. [Read more…] about Who Wants to Jump Off a Bridge This June?

The Remarkably Enlightening and Inspirational eBook (Aka: My First One)

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I’m totally stoked for the release of my first ebook. It’s been so much fun putting it all together and also very challenging at times but the final product is almost ready to go.

Public Release Date: February 28th, 2011 or earlier (read below)

The book is designed to inspire you to achieve things you’ve always dreamed of doing despite how big or small they are. It doesn’t matter whether it’s smaller goals like joining a social club or bigger goals like starting your own business. Each goal is a great experience that will inspire you to continuously live an incredibly fulfilling life.

Over 20 remarkable people have contributed to the eBook including Nathan Hangen, Chris Guillebeau, Mars Dorian, Matt Koenig, and Tyler Tervooren. Each has answered 1 question about what inspired them to do things like draw, start a charity, turn down $100k jobs, and learn how to surf at the age of 40. I chose to make each question different to show how inspiration can come from all sorts of accomplishments despite their various levels of difficulty. Some are inspired to write ebooks to help graduates land dream jobs and some are inspired to hitchhike 1500 miles to Morocco. [Read more…] about The Remarkably Enlightening and Inspirational eBook (Aka: My First One)

A Very Merry Christmas!

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Merry Christmas Everyone! I hope your all having a wonderful day with family and friends and if your at work (like my brother), know that your family is thinking of you and can’t wait to see you when your off. Originally I was going to write about reflection on the year past and goal setting for the year ahead but I’ll leave that until next week. Since it’s Christmas I’d like to reflect on some of the great organizations and cool people I came across in 2010 and would like to say thanks to for all the inspiration you have given me throughout the year.

Earlier this year I bought 100 copies of the “Four Hour Work Week” so that I would have the opportunity to go down to San Francisco and meet Tim Ferriss and other cool people in the online world. It was a cool experience to have dinner next to Tim and 20 other participants from around the world followed by a party on a warship at the San Francisco harbor. Aside from quick introductions with Ramit Sethi, Kevin Rose, and Paula Abdul, I managed to briefly meet Noah Kagen of AppSumo who I asked to be my “voice” that yells at me to keep me motivated towards my dreams of location independence and online entrepreneurship. Noah was surprised I would come all that way just to network with people doing what I want to do and agreed. Thanks Noah!

Me and Tim Ferriss

I then read a book called “Leaving Microsoft to Change the World” which I wrote about in an earlier post. This is the story of John Wood; a former high-level executive for Microsoft who chose to quit and start a non-profit organization called Room to Read. Room to Read helps build schools and libraries for children in less fortunate countries as well as supply them with books (in both English and their language) and grant scholarships to girls so that they can become educated and pass that on to their family. The organization is one of the best and the book brought tears to my eyes. [Read more…] about A Very Merry Christmas!

Interview with Tyler Tervooren of “Advanced Riskology”

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I recently had the opportunity to Interview Tyler Tervooren. Tyler is the man behind Advanced Riskology; a site he created after realizing his conservative lifestyle was not the right path for him.

He now lives life by his own terms and since adopting his new mind set, has…

  • Quit looking for a new job and created his own business
  • Made music an integral part of his life again
  • Made a list of challenging goals
  • Traveled Europe with a small backpack
  • and of course, started Advanced Riskology

Tyler now helps risk takers do really inspiring things at his site; Advanced Riskology, and is currently on his quest to join the top 1% of the world. Check out our interview below: [Read more…] about Interview with Tyler Tervooren of “Advanced Riskology”