A documentation of my journey to improve my life
Tag: work
So I am now the proud owner of a bus. But (as most of you know) I did not come to this ownership in any normal way. This is how, with no money, extremely limited resources and a lot of will, I managed to trade my way from a button to what is essentially a full-scale mobile home bus. Creating something from nothing There will never be a perfect storm of money, time and tools, so if you want to...
Living outside of reality Over the last few months, I have been giving everything I have into making my dream of traveling across Canada in a bus come true. It’s the first thing that’s on my mind when I wake up in the morning and the last thing that I think about when I go to sleep (often much later than I would like). The rest of my life, be it my digital marketing business, my finances, my friends, family, and...
“It’s easy to dream about it, but much harder to execute it” – Gary Vaynerchuk Everyone has a dream, but very few people are out there living their dream. Why is this? Well, the hard truth is that dreams are nothing without the dedication, hard work and sacrifice it takes to get them off the ground. I am currently attempting to fulfill my own dream to live a life of purpose, passion, and exploration. At this moment I am attempting...
This was, by far, the best year of my life. Not only has it been an incredible adventure but I have experienced incredible change, and learned so much about who I am and the life that I want to lead. Before I move on to what I hope will be another incredible year (Scale My Life 2.0) I wanted to share what I had taken away. Here is, part 2 of my lessons to scale your life (Part 1 here):...
1 month, that’s all it takes. 1 month of lifting, sweating, pushing, pulling, falling, failing, flailing and dieting to get into the best shape of your life. I’m not saying you’ll have abs that you can grate cheese on or muscles you can pull cars with, but if you commit 100% of yourself into it for just 1 month, you can get some pretty amazing results. In this short amount of time, I’ve undergone a significant transformation and I did it...
You collapse to the ground completely exhausted from the physical onslaught you’ve just endured. Your heart races, your chest is on fire and sweat exudes from virtually every area of your body. You are completely and utterly gassed. As you lie there trying desperately to catch your breath a unique feeling suddenly washes over you. You feel excited, you feel pumped, you feel unbeaten! You literally just pushed your body as hard and as long as you possibly could have and you’re still standing...
The sad truth that no one is talking about As part of this month’s ‘entrepreneur challenge,’ I’ve spent a great deal of time ‘interviewing different entrepreneurs‘ trying to extract some of their personal and professional knowledge. This was an incredible, eye-opening experience but surprisingly I found it was not what the entrepreneurs shared on camera that was the most interesting but instead it what they have shared off of it. Almost every single founder expressed that they were currently or previously struggling...
The secret to my success: Community No matter what you hope to achieve in life I cannot understate the incredible value of building a strong and diverse personal community. It is without any reservation that I can say that I am where I am today because of the amazing people that have supported me along the way. They have freely offered their knowledge when I’ve requested it, they have caringly shared their support when I’ve needed it and they have...
“Vision without execution is delusion” – Thomas A. Edison” Do you have a big idea? A crazy dream? A grand plan? Well, what’s stopping you from bringing it to life? Are you stalled in planning or are you, like most of us, lacking the push towards execution? If you ask any true entrepreneur they will tell you that ideas are a dime a dozen. Even if you think you have the next million dollar idea, the reality is that not only...
Does your job make you happy? It’s a simple question, but I realize not such an easy answer. Let me rephrase the question; are you doing something that when you wake up in the morning, you’re excited to go and do? Yes, no?? Here’s a scarier question, if the answer was no, why are you still doing that thing that you obviously don’t like? I was faced with this question recently, and it was by far, one of the most difficult...
