Get Out of Your Comfort Zone, Inspirations for Your Adventure Trips, Travel (and Burning Man)
Converting to Van Life Living My husband and I had a plan: in May of 2018, we would quit our jobs, go full-time in our own businesses, and travel. We didn’t know what that would look like travel-wise…if we’d settle down in Medellin, Colombia; if we’d sail...
Travel (and Burning Man)
The first time I went to Burning Man, I was 50 years old. People often ask me how I discovered Burning Man, probably since I don’t fit the (unfortunate) typecast of a raver who wants to go out to the desert to do crazy drugs. I am a perfect example of...
Shift Your Perspective, Travel (and Burning Man)
Adventure in your backyard Some people call it a ‘stay-cation’ but I call it an adventure in your backyard. It’s summertime and vacations are on people’s minds. While traveling to exotic or far-away locations can be adventurous and transformative, so can...
Get Out of Your Comfort Zone, Learn A Skill, Shift Your Perspective
Do you want to create your own Adventure Attitude? Here’s a tip: Be inspired by others. Don’t go down the envy/jealous/comparison lane. Find people who are the way you want to be. Or do things you’d like to do. Or people who treat others the way you would like to be...
Get Out of Your Comfort Zone, Learn A Skill, Shift Your Perspective
How can opening a car door with your opposite hand help you grow your brain and become more creative? Or for that matter, how does writing with your non-dominant hand raise your self-awareness? It’s funny what lessons you learn when you start out having an adventure...
Get Out of Your Comfort Zone, Play With Your Food, Shift Your Perspective
Sometimes I crack myself up. “Self-care is not selfish, it’s shellfish” was the punny thought running through my head when I decided to make myself a nice lobster dinner while my Adventure Partner was away. Local supermarkets do not have lobsters, or if they...
Self Care
Growing up as a kid I loved listening to the Beatles. They were the only records I cared to buy, and learned the lyrics by reading the words on the cover sleeves. I have a slight hearing impairment, and their tunes were easy for me to sing along to (almost always by...
Get Out of Your Comfort Zone, Play With Your Food, Shift Your Perspective
What lights you up? Ever watch a little kid who is so wrapped up in something he/she is enjoying so much, you can see his/her face glow with joy? If you’re a parent, you’ve probably seen this in your offspring. Do you remember feeling this way when you were a kid? ...
Travel (and Burning Man)
This summer I will be attending TTITD (That Thing in the Desert, aka Burning Man) for the fifth time. Eating healthy is challenging when you’re camping in an extreme environment, and when your diet is more specific than “healthy” it’s an even...
Get Out of Your Comfort Zone, Shift Your Perspective, Travel (and Burning Man)
Life is an Adventure. Dare It. This is one of my favorite quotes. Becoming a ‘solopreneur’ has been quite the adventure for me – so incredibly different from my corporate career. Selling millions of dollars of advertising seems quite the opposite...
Get Out of Your Comfort Zone, Travel (and Burning Man)
NOTE FROM STACEY: Today’s blog was written by my friend, Zsofi Jakabfi, a young woman who lives in Berlin. While she has traveled extensively, this particular trip was special as it shifted her perspective – on how she sees life and how she sees herself. ...
ABC is Always Be Curious, Self Care
It’s a well-documented fact that athletes use visioning to help them up their game, and great leaders are charged with executing big visions to move companies/policies/armies/etc to great successes. But what can we do when we are running around in our daily lives,...
Get Out of Your Comfort Zone, Shift Your Perspective, Travel (and Burning Man)
Recently Alli Owen, of Aligned & Alive podcast out of California, interviewed me. This lovely young woman has already started her own adventure – converting a van into a camper she calls Clifford, the Big Red Van. You can see her progress on Instagram...
Get Out of Your Comfort Zone, Shift Your Perspective
What is a sweat lodge? Why would I want to try one? How are these things made? What goes on inside? It’s funny for me to think that just six years ago I would not have thought I would be the one who could answer these questions from firsthand experience! The first...
Get Out of Your Comfort Zone, Shift Your Perspective
“I’m the only one who’ll walk across the fire for you” was the song lyric in my head as I stared at the bed of 1200°, red-hot coals being prepared for our group during my first encounter with a fire walk. Although my Adventure Partner was by my side, and he...
Get Out of Your Comfort Zone, Shift Your Perspective
Spring is that time of year when it feels easy to want to skip the doldrums of work, the humdrum of chores, and just go PLAY. All too often as adults, we think play is reserved for young children. I remember one thing I liked about being a mom was I was “given...
Get Out of Your Comfort Zone, Learn A Skill
What does crypto currency and self-worth have in common? Belief in value. The core to any currency, is belief that has value. In order for humans to feel self-worth, they must believe they have value. This train of thought came to me recently when I attended a...
Get Out of Your Comfort Zone, Shift Your Perspective
Developing an Adventure Attitude starts with courage. Courage to try new things, courage to take risks (large and small) despite the unknown outcome. Ultimately, it’s the courage to be your true, authentic self, in all areas of your life. Recently, I took a step to...
Learn A Skill, Shift Your Perspective
My health issues launched me into a new lifestyle About five and a half years ago, I was diagnosed with having fibroids. Or as my “highly recommended,” female, western-medically trained, ob/gyn told me – I have benign tumors. She dismissed my concerns,...
Get Out of Your Comfort Zone, Play With Your Food, Shift Your Perspective
Is your idea of foraging for food shopping the local Farmer’s Market? Or going to one of those trendy “farm to table” restaurants? It’s the beginning of Spring and fun things are popping up for creating wild salads. I remember learning during my teen...
ABC is Always Be Curious, Favorites
What’s the definition of adventure? What’s my definition of adventure? These are questions I asked myself when I decided that part of my work’s mission is to redefine the word’s meaning. After discovering answers to these...
