Die With Memories, Not Dreams.
Ideas are easy, cheap and overrated. They are nothing without execution. Brad O'Neal has become the first person to jump a dirt bike high enough to parachute down (not off a cliff). It’s part of Live Unbound's next documentary “Follow Your Fears”.
Update: It's out! Watch it here.
Quotes of the month
“You cannot change what you refuse to confront.”
- Unknown
“Make sure that you are truly the author of your own ambitions. It’s bad enough not getting what you want but it’s even worse to have an idea of what it is you want and find out at the end of a journey that it isn’t even close.”
- Alain De Botton
“I find out a lot about myself by sleeping. Dreams, they are who I am when I’m too tired to be me.”
- Jarod Kintz
"The reason we struggle with insecurity is because we compare our behind-the-scenes with everyone else’s highlight reel."
- Steve Furtick
Five Genetic Needs
As William Gasser said, we are driven by five genetic needs: survival, love, power, freedom, and fun.
Here's to the last one.
Bob Burnquist in Lake Tahoe.
Innovation
Experience
Don't Settle
Box Of Crayons
Everyone is given a box of crayons in kindergarten and encouraged to let their imagination run wild. The crayons quickly get replaced with uninspiring textbooks, numbing routines and implanted goals. After all the efforts of shaping us have ceased we start to retreat back to who we really are and listen to that voice in our heads telling us, 'I'd like my crayons back, please.’
Inspired by a quote by Hugh MacLeod.
Outside Your Element
“It is during the times I am far outside my element that I see and feel who I really am. I think that's what a comet is like, a comet is born in the outer realms of the universe. But it's only when it ventures close to earth that it releases the blazing "tail" behind it. That's why I enjoy hurling myself out into the unknown. Because it's during those scary moments, those unsure steps taken, that I am able to see that I'm like a comet hitting a new atmosphere: suddenly I illuminate magnificently. I discover a smile I didn't know I had, I uncover a feeling that I didn't know existed in me, I see myself." '
- C. JoyBell C.
Photo by Alexandre Rodriguez
"What's Stopping You?" A New Video!
Life begins where certainty ends
“People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.”
Daily Reminder
What I ask myself everyday.
Perspective
Sometimes you need to distance yourself to see things clearly.
Photo by Robert Kovacs
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.
Lost In The Right Direction
Photo by Vincent Bourilhon
The Present
Master Or Slave
This Months Top Photos
Photo by Tim Bonython
Photo by Matt Hutton
Photo by Darcy Bacha
Photo by Martin Lugger
Photo by Oli Gagnon
Dreams & Fears
Susceptible to Possibility
When you’re striving to do your best work or be your best self then you’re also more susceptible to pain. The pain of not meeting expectations, of being misunderstood or discovering weaknesses. As Seth Godin said:
“The easiest way to avoid the pain is to lull it to sleep by finding a job that numbs you.”
But being susceptible to pain also means you're susceptible to possibility. The possibility of earning the endless rewards that come with shining your light instead of hiding it.
Photo by Todd Glaser