Tag: adventure
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3 Minute Friday: Finding Gold, Original Thoughts, & Problems
Three Feet From Gold In Napoleon Hill’s classic book, “Think and Grow Rich”, he recounts a story of his uncle who went to California during the gold rush. He found a small vein of gold and invest in equipment to extract it. After digging up the small amount he first found he was unable to…
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An Unexpected Journey
The world is not in your books and maps, it’s out there – Gandalf I had a college professor tell a story of two students that took a semester off from classes to drive across the country. He said, “There is only so much you can learn in a classroom, out there will teach you…
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The Progress Principle
Using Forward Momentum to Improve All Aspects of Life The Progress Principle was first discussed and researched by Teresa Amabile and Steven Kramer in their book, “The Progress Principle: Using Small Wins to Ignite Joy, Engagement, and Creativity at Work.” Through rigorous analysis of diary entries from 238 employees of seven different companies, they were…
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How to Finance Your Adventure and Your Life
Many young men die at age 25, but are not buried until they are 75 – Often attributed to Benjamin Franklin Ever Wonder How to Save Up for a Big Quest? Ever since I got back from the Appalachian Trail in 2022, I’ve been thinking about how to get back out there. After graduating college…
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Why the Concept of Retirement is Wrong
I was having a conversation with a friend recently and he made the point that our society was very smart to realize that at age 60-65 people retire because they are ready for a slower life (he is around this age himself). He is a very intelligent guy, with a PhD in chemical engineering, and…
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Do You Actually Want all of Your Problems to be Solved?
My original idea for this post was to look 5-10 years ahead and talk about where I hoped to be and live in a happy, fantasy future for a few minutes, which often makes me feel good and hopeful about my current situation, but as I reread The Happiness of Pursuit by Chris Guillebeau, one…
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Reimagining Modern Success and Happiness
Success is defined as the accomplishment of an aim or purpose. Well that means in order to be successful, you first must have a goal, but how do we come up with that? The typical thought of a successful person is someone with a nice car, a big house, and high paying job. So their…
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Fuck the Joneses! Why would I want to keep up with them?
The Joneses are broke, have debt over their heads, and are going to get divorced (statistically*), why would I want to be like them? Good question, I don’t. I don’t want to live in a suburb house with a payment so large I can barely afford it. I don’t need that new Ford Bronco or…
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An Unconventional Take on an Unconventional Life
Everyone has that one friend that is always in a cool location doing something awesome like climbing the tallest peak in a national park or visiting a new country. I’ve always wanted to be that friend. The person all of your other friends bring up at dinner when you aren’t there because you are going…