This month we teamed up with the I Do It For Her Foundation to award selected individuals with the resources necessary to help make their dreams a reality.
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New at the Shop
Teamed up with Nectar sunglasses to create these limited edition sunnies designed to take a beating so you can live as unbound as possible.
Lightweight and heavyweight hoodies are finally in!
Had to design this one due to the popularity of a Facebook post (see below).
Never Give Up
Fail Safe
Once in a while I encounter something that nails everything Live Unbound stands for. Take the time to read it, I promise it's worth it!
Two Lives
Ever feel like you’re living two lives? The one you’re living and the one you're not living but constantly think about.
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Live Unbound is 2 years old!
The more significant a journey is to our soul’s evolution, the more resistance we’ll feel towards pursuing it.
In the last year I learned that this resistance doesn’t stop when you make the choice to begin, when you choose to take that exit off the highway (as seen on "we live unbound"). You have to overcome it every day, sometimes every second and it almost got me this past year. For example my resistance would ask me questions like “What makes you think you’re worthy of being a source of inspiration?”
The beautiful thing is there is always an antidote to a doubt, I just have to take the time to find it. In this case it’s a simple line by Marianne Williamson, “Your playing small does not serve the world.”
I look back at the videos and writings I did this last year and wonder if it really hit the points that I was trying to make. I try not to care too much. All that matters is I didn't hold back and gave it everything I had. For this year, I have overcome the resistance.
Thanks for joining us and making 2013 such a remarkable year!
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Antidote To Apathy
"Take action. You can either be a passive victim of circumstance or you can be the active hero of your own life. Action is the antidote to apathy and cynicism and despair. You will inevitably make mistakes but at the end of your days, you will be remembered for your gallop, not for your stumble."
- Bradley Whitford
Absence Of Fear
Choose Happiness
Wanted to share an article that really got me thinking. It's written by a nurse who reveals the top 5 regrets people make on their deathbeds.
For many years I worked in palliative care. My patients were those who had gone home to die. Some incredibly special times were shared. I was with them for the last three to twelve weeks of their lives. People grow a lot when they are faced with their own mortality.
I learnt never to underestimate someone’s capacity for growth. Some changes were phenomenal. Each experienced a variety of emotions, as expected, denial, fear, anger, remorse, more denial and eventually acceptance. Every single patient found their peace before they departed though, every one of them.
When questioned about any regrets they had or anything they would do differently, common themes surfaced again and again. Here are the most common five:
1. I wish I’d had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me.
This was the most common regret of all. When people realize that their life is almost over and look back clearly on it, it is easy to see how many dreams have gone unfulfilled. Most people had not honoured even a half of their dreams and had to die knowing that it was due to choices they had made, or not made.
It is very important to try and honour at least some of your dreams along the way. From the moment that you lose your health, it is too late. Health brings a freedom very few realise, until they no longer have it.
2. I wish I didn’t work so hard.
This came from every male patient that I nursed. They missed their children’s youth and their partner’s companionship. Women also spoke of this regret. But as most were from an older generation, many of the female patients had not been breadwinners. All of the men I nursed deeply regretted spending so much of their lives on the treadmill of a work existence.
By simplifying your lifestyle and making conscious choices along the way, it is possible to not need the income that you think you do. And by creating more space in your life, you become happier and more open to new opportunities, ones more suited to your new lifestyle.
3. I wish I’d had the courage to express my feelings.
Many people suppressed their feelings in order to keep peace with others. As a result, they settled for a mediocre existence and never became who they were truly capable of becoming. Manydeveloped illnesses relating to the bitterness and resentment they carried as a result.
We cannot control the reactions of others. However, although people may initially react when you change the way you are by speaking honestly, in the end it raises the relationship to a whole new and healthier level. Either that or it releases the unhealthy relationship from your life. Either way,you win.
4. I wish I had stayed in touch with my friends.
Often they would not truly realise the full benefits of old friends until their dying weeks and it was not always possible to track them down. Many had become so caught up in their own lives that they had let golden friendships slip by over the years. There were many deep regrets about not giving friendships the time and effort that they deserved. Everyone misses their friends when they are dying.
It is common for anyone in a busy lifestyle to let friendships slip. But when you are faced with your approaching death, the physical details of life fall away. People do want to get their financial affairs in order if possible. But it is not money or status that holds the true importance for them. They want to get things in order more for the benefit of those they love. Usually though, they are too ill and weary to ever manage this task. It is all comes down to love and relationships in the end. That is all that remains in the final weeks, love and relationships.
5. I wish that I had let myself be happier.
This is a surprisingly common one. Many did not realise until the end that happiness is a choice. They had stayed stuck in old patterns and habits. The so-called ‘comfort’ of familiarity overflowed into their emotions, as well as their physical lives. Fear of change had them pretending to others, and to their selves, that they were content. When deep within, they longed to laugh properly and have silliness in their life again. When you are on your deathbed, what others think of you is a long way from your mind. How wonderful to be able to let go and smile again, long before you are dying.
Life is a choice. It is YOUR life. Choose consciously, choose wisely, choose honestly. Choose happiness
By Sina Anvari
The Sweepstakes Have Begun!
Lack of money often stops us from broadening our horizons and experiencing life fully. Live Unbound is starting to tackle this problem by launching “Unbound Experiences” which rewards our customers by giving them a chance to win an adventure of their choice. One that is outside their comfort zone or helps to overcome a fear. Learn more »
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Live To Experience
Want You To Want
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
Top Videos From October
New Video! The Wild & Free
Doubt Swallowed By Passion
When you're focused beyond all reason, deep into something you care about.
When your doubt is swallowed by passion and time disappears.
When you feel unimpeded, unstoppable and truly alive.
You are unbound.
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