Self Improvement: is your life a series of wild adventures

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One of the reasons we seek self improvement is that our life is not what we want it to be. Instead of our life being a series of wild adventures, living life to the fullest, it is boring at best and one crisis after another at worst.

King of the hill.

I live on a hill. It’s great in the summer. There is always a breeze. In the winter, here in upstate NY, it can be nasty. When there is snow, like today and the plows haven’t been by, and my tires need replacing, it can be tough getting up the hill.

Here is where having a positive attitude makes all the difference in the world. As my car slowly crawled up the hill there were a couple of times that it almost stopped. I thought about backing down the hill and walking up. I know if I had done that, I would have been angry as I walked up the hill. I would have complained about the hill, the snow and how I didn’t know how I would get my car back up to my house.

Instead, I remembered to look at it like an adventure. I made a game out of seeing if I could keep the car moving, if only and inch or two. I zigzagged, I used different gears, I tried letting off the gas and then slowly giving it more. It was a game to see how far I could get. The car now sits in my driveway and I feel like I’m king of the mountain instead of a slave to it.

Where’s your sense of adventure?

As you work at self improvement, try to see life’s ups and downs and opportunities for adventure. I recently heard someone say that there is no avoiding crisis. We are either moving out of crisis, resting from a crisis, or moving into a crisis. Life has a way of happening.

Why let it get to you? I did this for years and I can tell you it never did me any good. Look at is as an adventure. We watch Indiana Jones run through the jungle trying to escape his enemies and think it would be great to have and adventure and then crumble when it snows, or our boss yells at us.

Let the boss incident motivate you to defeat that evil foe by unexpectedly doing the job in a fast and excellent manner. Let the disaster that has befallen you at home be the adventure that brings out the dare-devil or genius in you.

How do you find your sense of adventure?

There is a book that I recommend that helps with this. I will admit that I have not completely read it through, but what I have is good! It is rated quite high on Amazon. The book is called The Tao of Motivation: Inspire Yourself and Others. Check it out and see if this would help you find that sense of adventure in your life (affiliate link). It might be the best $15.00 you ever spent on yourself.

If you never find that sense of your life being a series of wild adventures, will you be doomed to a life of boring mediocrity? Self Improvement means stepping out of your comfort zone enough to experience. I suggest you do!

Here’s to You!

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