Monday, May 4, 2009

Blog your Adventure!

Tell us about going out of your comfort zone or your daily routine, whether in a big way or small, we want to hear about it!

You will feel so much better if you are a little bolder in your life. Play-- dance through a mudpuddle, stand out in the rain--or go bigger--learn to ride a motorcycle, take the family on an outing.

This weekend I had late night business Friday evening and didn't get home until 2AM. The next morning I had to get up for one son's baseball, and I was just feeling tired and in a general bad mood. After baseball, we stopped at the store for picnic food, then drove out to a canyon and hiked in to a falls the kids had never seen. The roaring water drove away all the bad feelings and we all made some memories. The comfortable thing would have been to go home for a nap, but where are the memories in that!

Tuesday, April 14, 2009

88.5 Live FM Listeners

Welcome! We hope you enjoyed the radio show. Tell us about an adventure you have had, then pick one someone else shares and try it out.

We want to hear about it!

Monday, April 6, 2009

The Six A's of Adventure

These will help you get into the adventure habit:

1) attitude: Gilbert Keith Chesterton said, "An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered." With a simple change in attitude, even trials can be seen as adventures.

2) adaptability: life will throw you changes, learn to be spontaneous and see the new adventure opened to you.

3) act like well-known adventurers: think of any adventure character or historical figure. Would they have had the adventure if they spent all their free time sitting in front of the tv? Take the opportunity.

4) Activate your inner child: we all need to PLAY. Look at things from a child's perspective.

5) Accessible: look at what is nearby. Play tourist in your own area.

6) Affordable: picnics and cheaper motels leave money for more adventures. Keep a look out for cheap/free events.

Sunday, April 5, 2009

FM96 Adventure Challenges

Welcome listeners of FM Radio 96 out of London, Ontario! Thanks for listening!

We invite you to blog about an adventure that you have recently experienced in your own area. In addition, we challenge you to select one of the following adventures or try an adventure that someone has posted and report back to us on the blog about how it went.

Tell us what you've done!

Making Time

If you don't make time in your busy life to be a little adventurous, it won't become a habit, and before you know it you'll be the kind of person that lets new opportunity pass you by.

Here's what we recommend:

  • daily--try to get out of your routine or outside your comfort zone (it doesn't have to be huge!)
  • weekly--get outside and do something unsual or seasonal, something you don't do all year.
  • monthly--day trips, explore new territory
  • quarterly--schedule something daunting, that pushes you a little past your comfort point (you know what is daunting for you: speed, heights, groups)
  • yearly--1) an annual vacation, 2)take on a new "dream" project