Ten years ago, if you had asked me what I was afraid of, I would have told you: heights, a world chocolate shortage, and snakes.
Today? Getting old, getting sick, being alone, being irrelevant, peeing my pants and dying.
Ageing... Read more
Tag Archive for: asset building
I fell down a rabbit hole this morning, and it left me anxious to share this TED Talk given by 71-year-old Chilean author, Isabel Allende. There was astonishing synchronicity for me, from the quote she shared by another... Read more
How often do you find yourself wanting to pull the plug on your favourite digital kitchen tables? Facebook and Twitter can be wonderful ways to connect with kindred souls. They can also become noisy, toxic drains of... Read more
Building our capacity to create happy, healthy, epic adventures. The assets that we're going to focus on here at the Adventure Lab are focused on our internal toolkit. They are "a way of being" combined with "character" and "know-how".... Read more
Reason #107 why I frigging love my job: I get to research Adventure Divas who have been out there proving that our notion of limitations is pure B.S., AND fall down the Pinterest rabbit hole at the same time... Read more
Exactly what kind of "assets" are we talking about when we want to "build our capacity" to create happy, healthy, epic adventures?
While extrinsic resources -- especially the "money" part of things -- can certainly ease our way into adventures... Read more
Seems like a heavy talking point in a space about adventures, doesn't it? Let's just call it "clearing the log-jam" that causes some of us to stumble right out of the gate.
ALL of us want to have adventures,... Read more
Janet Echelman's TED Talk on taking imagination seriously was a brilliant piece of serendipity for me when I discovered it in 2012, and worth sharing as a tool for adventure divas struggling with doubt.
Having been rejected by seven different... Read more
She's not Drew's Mimi anymore! Kathy Kinney wants to make you the Queen of Your Own Life!
You're going to find that we're really into "asset building" as a way of helping ourselves get ready for awesome adventures. ... Read more
It's no surprise that as we get older the topic of death rents a lot more real-estate in our head. We lose parents, friends, and sometimes even our children, with each of these deaths being held up like... Read more