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Why Adventure Is Essential To Your Evolution

By on October 9, 2012 in Confidence and Courage, Life Design, Career and Entrepreneurship, Mindset and Spirituality, Travel Adventure & Outdoors

This moving away from comfort and security, this stepping out into what is unknown, uncharted and shaky – that’s called liberation” ~ Pema Chodron You should know that I have always qualified adventure as being a very personal word. My definition of adventure doesn’t have to be yours. But to give you an idea of [...]

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Me and Thai at the ice cream social - Mountainfilm, Telluride, CO

Days 114 to 117 – Full On Forgiveness

By on May 27, 2012 in Confidence and Courage, Full-On 365, Mindset and Spirituality, Travel Adventure & Outdoors

I’m at the Telluride Mountainfilm Festival and it has been full on for the last few days: amazing powerful films (Fambul Tok was one that particularly moved me), fun evenings, mountain bike rides in the San Juan mountains (pic to the left) and being inspired every which way I turn. This film fest is not [...]

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Days 101 to 105 The Good Fear – FOMO (Fear Of Missing Out)

By on May 15, 2012 in Confidence and Courage, Full-On 365, Travel Adventure & Outdoors

Well dog my cats! I went pack rafting today and didn’t shit my pants! I have this thing with drowning…and the way I tend to address my fears is dive straight into them. Inevitably they seem far less freaky than what my mind was making up. Buuuuut with whitewater kayaking or pack rafting, it feels [...]

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Badass on a Budget – How to Live a Life of Fun, Passion, and Freedom Without Going Broke

By on May 11, 2012 in Life Design, Career and Entrepreneurship, Mindset and Spirituality, Most Popular, Travel Adventure & Outdoors

I’ve traveled a LOT. I’ve filled two passports in my lifetime so far (I’m 38), and one even had extra pages, which I’m really proud of;) In fact, the first passport I filled was when I was making less than $14,000 a year. It might have even been less than $11,000 a year but I’d [...]

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Days 74 to 77 – Alaskan Tidbits

By on April 17, 2012 in Full-On 365, Travel Adventure & Outdoors

Alaska has done it again. Won my heart. Lifted my spirit. Grounded me in my body and my being and to this earth. This weekend we were going to go to Portage Glacier for an adventure. But it rained (and blessed be the friends and thei iPhones with good reception that let us know what [...]

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Days 66 to 69 – Creating Kicks Ass

By on April 9, 2012 in Full-On 365, Life Design, Career and Entrepreneurship, Mindset and Spirituality, Multi-Passionism

Creating kicks ass. I know this, because I had my first free three-day weekend in a while (meaning not only did I not have schedule work, but I also had no other plans made) and I chose to focus on Freedom Junkie and create. And you know what? It was awesome. Of course, it would [...]

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Days 48 and 49 – Being Oversensitive Sucks

By on March 20, 2012 in Confidence and Courage, Love and Relationships, Mindset and Spirituality, Travel Adventure & Outdoors

Yesterday was a mellow day of sleeping, fixing up the yurt, then eating pizza with friends as we watched footage from our epic weekend (see below). There was such an awesome sense of community all weekend, and it was nice to fade into the rest of the week with a nice eve with amigos. It [...]

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Days 44 to 47 – Rest and Backcountry Skiing (not an oxymoron!)

By on March 19, 2012 in Confidence and Courage, Love and Relationships, Travel Adventure & Outdoors

Yeehaw! When you need to rest, rest. It’s so much easier living full on when your have the energy to do it. I did NOTHING Days 44 and 45 except sleep in, get a massage, read, and drive to a sweet backcountry Alaskan powder hut. I went to bed those nights and slept HARD. The [...]

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Archival image of my megamyd on a sea kayaking trip in Baja (during 911 BTW. Didn't know it happened for 3 days!)

Days 19, 20 and 21 – Freedom or Security? Duh.

By on February 22, 2012 in Confidence and Courage, Full-On 365, Life Design, Career and Entrepreneurship, Multi-Passionism

I had a great past three days which were also crazy busy, so thanks for your patience as I catch up here! Lots of things went on…from skiing to gathering with friends to contemplating a Full On Change: selling my house in Ashland. A re-cap: Day 19: skied at local mountain (aptly named Mt. Ashland)! [...]

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Days 13 and 14 – Mountain Love

By on February 14, 2012 in Confidence and Courage, Full-On 365, Travel Adventure & Outdoors

I know….it’s like cookin’ with butter. Cheating. It’s easy to love full-on in Telluride! All I know is it’s important to know what lifts your soul…and be in that as much as possible!

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