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Dare to Plan

#35 Days of Dares #31 Dare to Plan It’s a seeming paradox but it’s important to plan for adventure. But, isn’t adventure spontaneous? In an earlier post I shared about The Theory of Planned Behaviour and about how my husband and I plan for adventure. We all dream of having adventures and every day can be […]

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Not All Those Who Wander

  Not all those who wander are lost. J.R.R. Tolkien This quote has spoken to me many times when life has seemed chaotic or random. We plan our adventures, but leave enough looseness in the schedule to be able to randomly have conversations like this: ‘We’ve been invited to speak at an event in Seattle in April.’ ‘Okay, […]

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No Risk, No Story

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all. Helen Keller There have been lots of occasions where I’ve said yes to doing something and then been completely freaked out about it afterwards. Those times I’ve done those things have never been regrets. I went and studied at Oxford Summer School, went on a […]

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Adventures in Authenticity

  The closer you stay to emotional authenticity and people, character authenticity, the less you can go wrong.  David O. Russell Today we went on a canoe tour with a father and daughter team. They invited us to a bonfire tonight on the beach across the road from there home. We met lots of new […]

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Stare: being mindful

Today’s adventure involved riding a bike six kilometres to the southern tip of West Island in the Cocos Keeling Islands and snorkelling for two hours before riding back to our accommodation.     As we snorkelled we studied the coral and fish. Some of the minute fish and patterns in the coral caused us to […]

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Beautiful Mess: an adventure with your body

She is delightfully chaotic; a beautiful mess. Loving her is a splendid adventure. Steve Maraboldi I don’t know about you, but struggling with or against my body has been a huge part of my thinking and focus since I was about ten years old. I remember distinctly looking down at my legs in a gymnastics […]

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