5 ways to make your life an adventure

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5 Ways To Make Your Life An Adventure! I loved watching Sinbad growing u "is life was full of risk# adventure and so $uch interest! I wished I could trade $y bogus life routine for %ust one day of the irate&s 'with his skills of course( I wanted to be stronger# faster# s$arter# and better than I was )ew year resolutions gave $e a kick and I would start off with great a$bition "owever# by late *ebruary# $y assions had died and I was back to $y drudgery I have discovered a few things over the years that have $ade $y life an adventure With ti$e# I have $astered so$e but I believe I still have a long way to go "owever# I will confidently say that if Sinbad was watching $e today# he&d  wish his life was as an adventure as +rnest Wa$boy e&s So here are 5 things that I hav e seen in $y life that $ake each day an adventure to look forward to , -ut the T. watching I reali/ed that the only way I was going to have a better life than Sinbad# was to sto watching Sinbad Television offers ideal concets of life that are very unrealistic 0esite having full knowledge that what we  watch is scrited# ac ted and $ade to bring the best and $ost i$ossible outco$e# our s ubconscious $inds don&t know that T. is the reason so $any attractive wo$en feel ugly because they watched a $odel who sent si1 hours of $ake2u to aear for three $inutes on set T. can $agnify certain insecurities you have and create new ones if you don&t have the$ A good e1a$le is this3 T. nor$ali/es divorce and infidelity If you ask a few eole who have been through broken relationshis# they will tell you it is nothing like T. )o2 one is relieved and s$iling the ne1t day )ow# T. in itself is not a bad thing There are very good T. rogra$s out there by the way "owever# the viewer $ust reali/e that television sells $ore than roducts and entertain$ent4 it sells values Sadly# $ost of those values will dull your life instead of give you $ore /eal for it My wife and I disconnected our T. about two2$onths ago We have had $ore ti$e to drea$ and talk in a very enriching way during the ti$e we would be watching a sitco$ T. relaces uality interaction It shows you the  world&s great and a$a/ing drea$s but it doesn&t& tell you that t hose drea$s are a s$idge co$ared to what&s stored in your head if you interact with real eole 6 7ead )othing gets your $ind well e1ercised than reading Mark Twain once said that the $an who does not read has no advantage over the $an who cannot read 7eading gives you an advantage I have been to cocktails  with $y eers w here very i$ortant guests w ere invited You always have an uer hand w hen the guests of honour seak of a book they read and you %ust haen to have read it You look like you don&t fit with your eers because desite our acade$ic degrees# you have an uer hand in the conversation You stand out and you grant yourself $ore oortunities than the average28oes who refer watching a whole season of that2new2 season during the weekend I challenge you# relace the co$uter ti$e in the weekend with a novel 7eading also surs your i$agination Your creativity is bound to increase with increase in reading With an increased creativity# there is an increased drea$ing An increased drea$ing results in an increased challenge that translates into an interesting life if those challenges are ursued and even better if they are achieved In the Infor$ation Age# the greatest tragedy is that we erish for lack of knowledge 9 Take u challenges I like laying ga$es that I know I will win "owever# even after winning a few rounds# it gets dull "owever# I have found it $ore interesting when I lay a ga$e with a worthy or greater oonent The ga$e is $ore interesting and you get to discover yourself 'character and ersonality( in loss and in victory So it is with life&s challenges If we kee acceting to take u tasks that we are sure of ,::; success# we will never i$rove our $ettle Life is dyna$ic A ti$e will co$e when titanic challenges will arise without notice and if we haven&t had ractice with tough challenges# we will cru$ble and falter So$eone in )ove$ber 6:,, dared $e to write a novel in 9: days I could not i$agine setting aside all that ti$e to %ust write "ow could I send hours writing

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<:#::: words= -hallenges reuire overriding our defective willower that defaults for the co$fort /one I took

the $onu$ental task and on ,st of )ove$ber 6:,,# I wrote 5::: words There was no stoing I had $y first

novel tyed out by 9:th )ove$ber 6:,, I had it ublished in one year after that The novel has added a

flavour to $y life I walk in the streets and a rando$ stranger stos $e and says# >You&re +rnest right= ?h $y

goodness# I so love your book! I&ve read it twice!@ If that&s not an adventure I don&t know what is= Many eole

loved the book and ket asking for the ne1t I now have an audience that e1ects a new book every year You

need to discover your niche and resond to the challenges that it offers It $ay be that you&ve baked for

neighbours for too long and the challenge reuires you to atte$t a wedding cake or a birthday cake erhas

the $elodious voice needs to do an albu$ of ,6 songs before the year ends and start a $usic brand If I

turned down the challenge# I&d have no incentive to beco$e a best2selling author I&$ not one yet# but I hoe to

be Listen# even if you fail in your challenge# re%oice *ailures are the battle2$arks that rove you survived the

 war and that you can still fight And this ti$e# you can fight with better skill A $an who has failed has infinite

success robabilities than one who hasn&t failed at all B even worse# than one who hasn&t tried at all Take u

challenges If your drea$s don&t scare you# you still have roo$ for a $ore an adventurous life

C -hange $ediocre co$any

The only thing worse than bad co$any is $ediocre co$any If there is anything that kills a$bition#

$otivation and assion# it is the average# $ediocre friend The one with who$ you share your drea$ and they

laugh because they think you are not being ractical They are the ones who are co$lacent about their body#

their intellect# their %obs and who like free things They have reason to co$lain how things should be but do

not contribute to effect changes They find work as a bother and don&t like stretching outside their /one of

co$fort They would refer slee to activity any day They are slaves to their aetites and are susicious of

those who succeed They will be the death of you and the end of an adventurous life I love $y wife for being

suer co$any I have shared drea$s with Turi that looked cra/y and she always considered the ossibility

before considering the i$ossibility So$e of the drea$s have co$e to ass and I too was shocked to see

the$ co$e to fruition "owever# I look back and I see co$any that uheld $y vision and surred $e to go on

Dad co$any will obviously kee you fro$ clear success and a life of greatness "owever# $ediocre co$any

is worse4 it will not even let you know there is such a thing as an adventurous# successful life Mediocre

co$any is the carbon $ono1ide of a dull life4 it kills you slowly and you don&t even notice it is lethal

5 Duild your walk with Eod

This is robably the best way to an adventurous life I have a ersonal walk with -hrist 8esus I don&t know

about you# but I will tell you this about $e B each day has new /eal knowing that Eod directs $y stes I arise

before the sun is u and I ensure that $y daily routine does not start without hearing fro$ Eod first Many

eole call it their Fuiet Ti$e 'FT( In $y FT I reflect on $y life As I read through the scritures# I a$ $ade

aware of the offences I have caused# the right decisions I have $ade# the $istakes I have incurred and the

chances that I have I a$ co$elled each day to know that this adventurous life on +arth is %ust a teeny tiny

$olecule co$ared to what haens after I die +very day sent reading and $editating on the Dible shows

$e that the +arth is a i1el in the vast universe and that I $atter! -an you believe that= That $y life has

urose and $eaning! That I a$ not a $istake and that a loving Eod wants $e by "is side when this life is

over +ach day as I build $y walk with Eod# I discover that the word adventure has fallen short of the very

e1erience of walking with $y -reator