Creative Success Depends on Long View
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Living In The Conversation of Your Life
Six days a week, I wake up early, pull on my jeans and head to the recreation center where I commit my body to a two hour workout.
I swim a half-mile, lift weights, run, bicycle and meditate along with stretching in the hot tub. Why? I engage [...]
Mountains for Breakfast, Sunsets for Dessert, Camping for Your Dreams
This year, a longtime friend asked me to go on a bicycle journey with him down the West Coast from Canada to Mexico.
The journey encompassed 2,000 miles of the Pacific Ocean, mountains, beaches, seabirds, whales, seals, otters, dolphins and [...]
Choosing Low Self-Esteem: Carrying The Mental Equivalent For Self-defeat
Millions of Americans live their lives with low self-esteem.
Teenagers learn it from one or both parents. Others choose it by comparing themselves with movie stars. Many young women mutter to themselves, “I’m not good enough…I’m not [...]
Bottled Lightning: Skin Your Knees On Eternity
At the beginning of my presentations on “How to Live a Life of Adventure” at high schools, colleges, civic clubs and church groups, my first words exclaim, “I live a spectacular life!”
After the audience digests such brash words, I invite [...]
Your Creative Mind: Unpredictable Collision of Thought and Circumstance
How do ideas strike you?
When do they hit? Have you heard of the phrase, “Stroke of luck…flash of insight…eureka moment!” Creativity involves anticipation mingled with uncertainty. For the record, ideas grow out of your brain through [...]
The Flash Mob Phenomenon in the Age of Aquarius
The Flash Mob phenomenon is a relatively new thing made possible by the internet and other social media.
It’s a marvelous concept in which, by pre-arrangement, a group of people come together in a public venue in order to perform (usually) [...]
The Point Of True Beginning: Your Perfection
Back in the 1880s while living as a sawyer in Yosemite National Park, America’s first ecologist, John Muir, lived face to face with nature.
He climbed into the High Sierras throughout his life. He summited mountains, fished in clear streams [...]
Erik Weihenmayer: Turning Into the Storm of Life
Ray Charles learned to play the piano as he lost his vision during his childhood.
In his 70 years, he scaled musical heights beyond the ordinary. Helen Keller, blind, deaf and mute, learned to read and write as she sped toward becoming one of [...]
You Can Do That: The Key to Your Life’s Successful Path
Have you ever faced a situation that caused you to question yourself?
Did you confront a teacher that you disliked or a fellow student who badgered you? Have you dwelt with co-workers that made you tear your hair out? Welcome to the human race! [...]
Hallucinating With Storybook Friends
I recently experienced a knee injury so painful that I sobbed until tears and snot covered my face, and I ignored my mother’s admonishment to wear fancy underwear before going to the hospital.
After x-rays confirmed damaged ligaments, a doctor [...]
Bird Tracker On Bicycle: Dorian Anderson
Individual passions glide on America’s highways in different forms. Some folks pursue their quests of visiting all National Parks within a summer.
Others carry kayaks to challenge rivers from Maine to Oregon. Still others climb mountains in [...]
Podcast: Practical Tips For The Mature Traveler
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Today’s guest is Peter Barber, author of Get Up and Get Going – A Practical Guide to the Mature Would-Be Traveller. By blending travel for pleasure with volunteering later in life, Peter provides unique understanding and [...]
Your Life: One Step At A Time
The energy of life on this planet strives to organize into relationships.
As with water, you watch it thrive in many forms such as snow, rain, ice and vapor. It gathers as clouds in the sky, which eventually, falls as rain or snow. It drains [...]
Want To Live Your Life With GUSTO?
Do you make a choice, each day, to seize the moment, every single moment?
There is an enormous difference between just existing and being fully, joyfully consciously alive. To live with passion is to really accept and embrace the precious [...]
Podcast: Rocky Mountain National Park: The First 100 Years
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Mary Taylor Young is an Award-winning Colorado author of 15 books, who has been writing on the landscape, natural history and heritage of the American West for more than 25 years. In her new book, Rocky Mountain National Park: [...]
How To Live Life On Your Own Terms
In this high-speed society we created for ourselves, Americans live in traffic-congested cities with skyscrapers piercing the sky.
On the ground floor, humans race to catch crowded buses, packed subways and Yellow Cabs. With expressways gridlocked [...]
Colossal Dreams Take Colossal Actions
While moving through childhood, oftentimes, parents ask their kids, “What are you going to be when you grow up?”
Like most children, you didn’t possess a clue. You didn’t know what you faced when you grew up let alone what you might [...]
Spirit Of Adventure: The High Drama Of Self-Discovery
When coyotes howl outside your tent, that may be adventure.
While you trudge through the wilderness with a 40-pound pack, that could be deemed “adventure.” While sweating like a horse as you pedal over a 12,000-foot pass, you might be living [...]
Igniting The Creative Dynamo In You
Six decades ago, a Swiss hiker named George de Mestral hiked through autumn colors with his dog.
He crossed fields covered in milkweed, purple thistles, burrs, thorny branches and floating dandelion parachutes.
In the autumn, all plants release [...]
Podcast: Winning Gambling Strategy
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Have you ever thought about walking out of your current job to pursue a career you’ve always dreamed about? Well, that’s exactly what Greg Elder did when left his job as an insurance salesman to try and support his family as [...]
Podcast: Upgrade Your Travel On The Cheap
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Jeanne Hoffman is the co-founder and editor of HeelsFirstTravel.com.
She’s spent years taking advantage of great travel deals and now shares these secrets with others on the blog.
She’s here to share some easy steps [...]
Podcast: WHOA Travel – Women High On Adventure
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Danielle Thornton and Allison Fleece are Professional Adventurers, who after climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro, were inspired to create a community that made high adventures accessible to more women around the world.
So they did. WHOA [...]
Romantic Volunteer Vacations: A Great Way To Reinvigorate Your Relationship
It’s an age-old challenge: how do couples keep their relationships fresh over the span of many years and the daily routine of everyday life?
The best opportunities for couples to get away from the routine are during shared time off, so why [...]
What Makes You Go Wild?
Wild as in wild places, the great outdoors.
What drives you to pack up your gear, leave the safety and comfort of home, and head to nature’s domain?
To me it seems that millions of us have an urge, a need almost, to spend as much time as possible [...]
The Celestial Magic Of A Campfire & Friends
To sit around a campfire with a stick while you poke the glowing embers before you, may be one of the most tangible of all visible mysteries of the universe.
You stare into pulsing energy that feeds your soul.
Warmth comforts your sense of belonging [...]
How To Handle Anyone Who Drives You Nuts
If you work in a school, company, fast food joint, office or any other organization that forces you into contact with other people, you must deal with one or two characters that drive you nuts.
They may be arrogant, rude, aggressive or impudent.
They [...]
I’m Ward Luthi And I’m On A Mission…
…A mission to explore every wild corner on this planet in order to introduce the 50-plus generation to active travel and life-changing experiences in the great outdoors.
And, also very important for us as a group, to give a gift of safety [...]
Safeguarding Friendships: A Way To Care For You & Your Friends
It’s been said that a “best friend” constitutes a miracle of the universe.
During your lifetime, you attach to certain individuals who “mesh” with you mentally, spiritually and physically. At first, you share the weather, sports [...]
Three Profound Secrets To A Happy Life
Pursuing Happiness.
Thomas Jefferson said, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men and women are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the [...]
Creating Solitude For Spiritual Bliss
Americans living in big cities race through their days with gridlocked traffic, honking horns, cheeky taxi drivers, police sirens and jostling pedestrians racing toward their destinations.
At work, they juggle temperamental co-employees, deadlines [...]
The Life & Times Of The Coffin Man
In a Vermont parking lot on Lake Champlain, I stood astride my touring bicycle waiting for the ferry.
In the corner of the parking lot, a buckboard wagon stood silently in the shade. It featured a shortened harness on the front, along with [...]
The Voluptuousness Of Living
You face multiple challenges in your life.
Thank goodness for that opportunity. Utopian worlds only exist in novels by the likes of Aldous Huxley in Brave New World. If you recall that brilliant story, a couple enjoyed unlimited sexual, [...]
Your Quest For Adventure: How To Arrive!
“Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words. Keep your words positive because your words become your behaviors. Keep your behaviors positive because your behaviors become your habits. Keep your habits positive because [...]
Spirit Of Adventure: The Oracle Of Delphi
Ancient Greece featured Aristotle and Socrates.
It enthroned its mightiest warrior in Achilles who overthrew Troy with a Trojan horse. The Parthenon boasts the grandest architecture of the Greeks from 776 B.C.. But nothing beats the mystical [...]
Carnivore Or Vegetarian: Is My Hair Standing Up For No Reason?
Adventure is not always comfortable; however, it’s still adventure.
It’s not always safe, either. Whatever it is, adventure in the wilderness beats a weekend of sitting in a Barker Lounger watching inane television shows that you will [...]
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