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Unleash Your Life Episode 17, Spirit of Adventure

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Our habitual way of encountering life can feel monotonous, leading us to boredom and sometimes, apathy. Yet infusing our lives with a spirit of adventure is close at hand -- it's just a matter of retraining our brains.

Here are this episode’s Action Points:

Use Tech to Undo tTech — Technology can help us to use less technology? That’s right! Thought it may not create major change, it can help cut back our tech use enough that we then have extra energy to make more paradigm-shifting transformations. Here are a few good ones!

Make ACIs Less Accessible (And Habits More Accessible!) — We’ll illustrate with food. Want to kick the junk food? Remove it from the house, so it’s not always starting at you. Then make healthy foods available by putting out bowls of nuts, having hard boiled eggs waiting in the fridge, and making some veggie salads that you always keep on hand, ready-to-eat.

Choose Human Connection Over ACIs — Feeling the urge to text someone? Call instead. That’s just one simple way to err on the side of more human connection.

Random Acts of Fun — RAFs are a great way to add spice to life. Better yet, get your friends in on it. It might be a walk at the park, or going skydiving. But when you have a free day, instead of surfing the net, see if you can think of something out-of-the-box to do.

The Bowl of Challenges — For this one, you’ll just have to watch the video =)

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8 thoughts on “Unleash Your Life Episode 17, Spirit of Adventure”

  1. Kenton: did have a wonderful time on Cumberland Island National Seashore. Beauty in trees/oaks bent by the ocean wind/draped with Spanish moss, dune transition zone, and bare beach (free of people) with plenty of gulls, terns, crabs, and such. Trails were relatively free of backpackers until weekend. Ticks are a major drag. Tiny sea ticks very hard to spot even after they have attached to your skin. Good to have a partner to regularly scan the parts of your body you can’t easily see. We played in the ocean. No problem at 62 degrees. Air temp was perfect.

  2. It’s interesting that you mentioned the forest monks in this podcast. I was just wondering the other day how the forest monks deal with going back into society after completing the program. Perhaps sometime you could do a short video update on past monks and what they are doing with their lives now.
    ACI’s are truly a strong force. I know that I slip back into my old habits from time to time, but now I recognize them and understand what a waste of time they are, and change course.

    1. That’s a great idea Rob. It’s definitely a challenge for almost everyone when they return to civilization. I might get a chance to do a video with Garrett this summer, who was a forest monk last year, hit some rough patches afterward, found his way out, and is now returning for another month this summer.

      Love,
      Kenton =)

  4. I think I’ve had it easy. Nature is right there just outside my door! But being sucked in by the ACI’s is so easy and so sneaky that it is sometimes hard to get out to do the garden and roam the woods which I love to do in the spring. And I don’t get ticks on me checking e-mails that tell me how wonderful it is outside or viewing the pictures my face-book friends share of the work they’re doing and the beauty they are seeing outside!
    Then there is the adventure of life with a 71 year old husband who thinks he can still work three jobs at once (with my help)….

    1. So blessed we are to have nature so readily available to us, Maude! It certainly isn’t that way for everybody, and it’s so good to remember how fortunate we are.

      Love,
      Kenton =)

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