Tag: travel
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Six Questions for Success Part 6/6: The Last Question
I recently celebrated my 38th birthday. A couple of days beforehand, I had one evening where for around two hours I had a crushing low mood and a sense that I was rapidly getting old with not that much to show for it. The feeling was triggered by a song that I heard that reminded…
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Six Questions for Success: Part 1/6 – Develop, manage and deliver on your goals.
The above picture is one of the most dangerous sections of inland river in the United Kingdom. I took a group there recently. The water is 30 feet deep (yes, you read that correctly) and the rocks look tantalisingly close to just hop across. Many have tried and failed to do that. If you want…
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Week 28: Brighouse to Berry Brow
As Spring has most definitely arrived, I have been out adding some more days to my mountain training logbook and trying to learn some new flora. I used to carry a variety of plant ID books round with me but this week trialled something different – Google Lens. While this only really works when it’s…
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Week 27: Sailing Alone – Using the Sea to gain a perspective on the Self
To those who read this – thanks for sticking with me as I prepare to head back outside properly. I’ve been doing a massive amount of physical rehabilitation on my back muscles and it has really made a difference. Back on the trails this weekend….it’s been far too long. So the book – any good?…
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Week 26: Long Way Round
Some of the best experiences in life come when you just don’t bother doing much planning. You just have an idea, get your best mate involved, and ‘go for it’. Such is the story behind Long Way Round. McGregor and Boorman are both actors and bikers. It was McGregor who initially thought of the idea…
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Week 24: The Thai Cave Rescue
So what do you do when you find out that 12 young boys and their football coach are stuck nearly two kilometres in a complex cave system in Thailand and the monsoon rains have just begun? You call John Volanthan. I remember watching this rescue unfold on the news back in 2018, and like many…
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Week 23: The First Ascent of the North Face of the Eiger
This week, I would like to take an extreme example of adventure and focus on my next word in the A-Z of personal development – ‘belay‘. You might wonder why I have chosen such an obscure word. Please bear with me! What does the word mean in my Collins dictionary? ”to fix a rope around…
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Week 22: The Kon-Tiki Expedition
As mentioned in my previous blog, I am going to take a deep dive into a case study for adventurous career paths each week until week 52. Each one will be accompanied by a personal development ‘keyword’, in A-Z order, from the dictionary. This is because I think achieving goals is a very complicated process…
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Week 17: The idea of ‘The Journey’
What is a journey? Why are they important? What do they teach us? I’ll let a recent journey give insight into some potential answers. The dictionary claims a ‘journey’ to be ‘an act of travelling from one place to another’ while intriguingly the entry for ‘journeyman’ (let’s also include ‘journeywoman’) is ‘a skilled worker who…
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Week 11/52: Downtime.
I’ve learned the hard way in previous projects that a key component in achieving a goal is having downtime. Proper rest. Not scheduled in, not with any kind of aim, but just time to rest and recuperate. I have a series of warning signs I look out for, mentally and physically, which usually mean I…
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