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The Doorstep Mile: Live More Adventurously Every Day
OVER TO YOU • What did ‘living adventurously’ mean to you ten years ago? • What does it mean today? • If you continue living the way you are, where will it put you ten years from now? • Is that a direction you are happy with?
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What are your symptoms of flabbiness that are an early warning of a deeper malaise? • Physical Flabbiness. • Mental Flabbiness. • Moral Flabbiness.
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This led to me riding the Karakoram Highway from Pakistan to China.
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How do you define ‘failure’? • Is this definition sufficient cause to not attempt something bold?
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Back in college my best friend asked, ‘Do you want to go on a trip? We are renting a camper and leaving for the trip of a lifetime to see the Balkans.’ I had no money, I was scared and full of scenarios of death and destruction. I was pretty sure my parents would say NO, even though I was a grown-up. I remember telling my grandma about it. She hand
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A liberating side effect of spending the next few years on the road was that I realised there is no such thing as the right way to live. Travel shows you many different versions of ‘normal’. Pedal far enough from your front door and you eventually become an exotic specimen yourself. There is no correct route through life. There is no ideal lifestyl
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• Write a letter of advice from your 80-year-old self to you today.
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OVER TO YOU • What practical barriers stand in your way? • What mental barriers have you built up? • Which concerns can be shunted further down the line? Think of the most significant thing blocking you from living adventurously. • Now ask these questions, known as the Dickens Process: • What has that barrier cost you in your life so far? • What is
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Am I too busy to move to Africa for a year? • Am I too busy to cross Iceland for a month? • Am I too busy to go biking in Scotland for a week? • Am I too busy to camp out this weekend? • Am I too busy to climb a small hill and watch the sunset? • Am I too busy to go for a run at lunchtime? • Am I too busy to swim in a river before breakfast? • Am I
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OVER TO YOU • What should you work on more slowly than your impatient side wants you to?
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