Live Unbound is Back!

Just relaunched Live Unbound after spending a couple years working on TV shows and doing some aimless traveling.  

I decided it’s time to dive back into the work that I love the most. Just finished the 8th video for a series of one minute videos made from speeches that had a big impact on my life.

Here’s the first one and I’ll be releasing a new one every week. 

I’ll be posting regularly on Instagram @weliveunbound & Facebook facebook.com/liveunbound

If you have suggestions for speeches, quotes or any insights that have inspired you then just reply to this email or contact me here. Or if you just want to say hi and chat then that’s cool too :)  

– Yali

Quotes Of The Month

"Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you."

- Anne Lamott

"My challenge to you here, is to journey into a deeper intimacy with the world and your life without any promise of safety or guarantee of reward beyond the intrinsic value of full participation."

- Oriah Mountain Dreamer

"It’s easy to paint a picture in your head of what you think you want in life, but life most of the time never gives you the materials you need to create the masterpiece that you’ve created in your head. The best thing you can do is surround yourself with great people and good vibes. So, while you may not yet have a brush, you already have a palate full of brilliant and vibrant colors to paint with."

- Miguel Aguilar

Quotes of the month

"Our growth depends not on how many experiences we devour but on how many we digest."

- Ralph W. Sockman

And then there's the most dangerous risk of all – the risk of spending your life not doing what you want on the bet you can buy yourself the freedom to do it later.

- Randy Komisar

"Sometimes all you need is twenty seconds of insane courage. I promise you, something great will come of it."

- Benjamin Mee

"I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day."

- E.B. White

Get What You Love

When you spend everyday completely enthralled in the work that you love then you can’t help but become really good at it.  That’s why doing what you love is not a luxury, it’s an opportunity.  

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Nature Loves Courage

“Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles. Dream the impossible dream and the world will not grind you under, it will lift you up. This is how magic is done. By hurling yourself into the abyss and discovering its a feather bed.”  

     -  Terence McKenna

“Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.”

     - Rumi

"Music has always been my fuel. Sentimental people call it inspiration, but what they really mean is fuel. I believe that a car with the gas needle on empty can run about fifty more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio."

     - Hunter S. Thompson

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We Are All Unbound

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Expensive Dreams

Dream Big

“If your dreams do not scare you, they are not big enough.”

- Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

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​Photo by Gaston Rebuffat

DON'T GIVE UP ON YOUR DREAMS, KEEP SLEEPING.

Everyone has a dream or an idea of what they want their lives to be but so many people don’t take action towards it.  That’s because it’s not the dream itself that motivates us to reach for it, it’s believing that it’s within our reach.  Our brain fights this notion; telling us it’s unrealistic, illogical and even foolish but don’t listen.  Keep sleeping.

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Photography by © Oli Gagnon

ACTION CURES DOUBT

Doubt is the result of our powerful imagination used to visualize the worst possible outcome. This expectation of failure causes inaction, making us lose the good we could have won.

We can’t think our way to self-assurance, we need proof that we’re worthy of the confidence we seek. That’s why taking action is the only thing that can cure our doubts. Prove them wrong and watch as your newfound courage guides you to new heights.

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© Mattias Fredriksson // Athlete: Espen Linnerud // Location: Stranda, Norway

DIVE INTO AN AMBITIOUS CHALLENGE THIS MONTH

One where chances of failure are high. Only when you’re face to face with defeat, an unfamiliar side of yourself takes over and overcomes. This psychological strength is unknown to the play-it-safers. Not because they don’t have it inside them, because it’s not attracted to small endeavors. It needs bold, courageous effort to flourish. 

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Ethan Morgan // Silvretta Montafon // Austria

Why is it that what people can accomplish is often greater than what they believe they can.  Our limitations are an illusion created by us and they will be broken by us.

When you're optimistic you no longer need a sense of control. You know that life will flow as it will, taking you where you need to be. 

Scene from "Where the trail ends".

Life is a river; always moving forward, barreling straight through the impossible. Some of us are disconnected from the flow of the river. This disconnect kills joy, interaction and purpose. Life's greatest adventure, all it's beauty, sails by unnoticed. But the river is never that far off. There is always a way back into the rush of moving forward.

Life Cycles OFFICIAL Trailer from Life Cycles on Vimeo.

We spend so much time thinking, worrying, questioning. Spend a few seconds lost in a moment. No time to think, just reaction and focus. All the worry and the want washed away by the rush. That's living (pharaphrased from Life Cycles).

Rider of the Year III Awards Teaser from Tribe Rider on Vimeo.