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The Doorstep Mile Newsletter: Living Adventurously

The Oxford Dictionary defines adventure as an ‘unusual, exciting or daring experience’, and being ‘willing to take risks or to try out new methods, ideas, or experiences’.

Would you like to live more adventurously? I know that I certainly would.

A SERIES OF ARTICLES TO HELP YOU START LIVING ADVENTUROUSLY… Sign up here:


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Feedback from Readers:

  • You probably think I’ve been ignoring all these emails you’ve been sending on about living life more adventurously, but I haven’t. In fact, I’ve been completely inspired by them and I wanted to let you know what I’ve been up to in the last few weeks.
    I do get outdoors as much as I can but since reading your emails I’m camping more, I’m skinny dipping more, sea swimming more, bivvying more, started getting out with the missus more and the kids as well.
  • I need help with falling in love with everyday
  • I read it because I was feeling trapped by my circumstances (kids, money, time) and hungry for adventure, and your book helped show me that adventures are everywhere when you have the right attitude. Now I climb trees
  • The questions posed were a great coaching tool to help me get back in touch with what is important to me, helped me look at life with another perspective and gave me courage.
  • Since becoming a parent, I had started to feel my adventurous side slipping away at a rate of knots, which made me restless.
  • At 73, I realised that I needed a kick in the pants, because my life had been stagnant for a while. My experience is that this happens in life. It isn’t a case of getting inspired and “living adventurously ever after,” at least for me.
  • Reading your books has made me question my approach to life – becoming stale – and become noticeably more ‘sod it, let’s do something’.
  • Taught me to think about what is really a priority in my life!
  • It helped me organise myself and really start thinking about what kind of things I really WANT to do rather than think I SHOULD do!
    It’s also helped put the ‘fear’ in the back burner (for a while anyway)
  • Was looking for a different way of thinking about my life & what I want from it.
  • To break the cycle of thinking that wonderful things were far far away
  • I want something to change. I need something to change…
  • Work, kids, husband – but I also don’t want to waste these family years just investing in them not me. Plus I want to show the children that adventure is lurking round every corner and not to be afraid to grab it by the horns.

This newsletter has nothing to do with cycling continents, crossing deserts, or even sleeping in a tent. I see living adventurously as being much broader than that. Living adventurously is an attitude with which you charge at life, and it applies whether you cycle across a continent, sleep on a nearby hill, take up a musical instrument, write a book or start an email newsletter.

As much as you probably like the idea of lighting even a little fire under your life, I know how hard it can be to actually make any changes.

We all dream of achieving the extraordinary in our lives, our personal version of trekking to the South Pole. Having failed at that myself, but eventually come out the other end smiling, I now believe there is something even more important than striving for the remarkable. And that is to stop dreaming about an ‘adventure of a lifetime’, and instead pursue a lifetime of living adventurously through a daily pledge to push myself a little, scare myself now and then, and remain curious.

I have seen in my own life, amongst the frustrations of real life, the shortage of time and money, the excess of distractions and chores, the childcare, the thwarted fantastical daydreams, and my sheer lazy procrastination, that there remains a yearning to do a little bit more with my life.

This series is my attempt to figure out how to go about living adventurously amidst the chaos of ‘real life’. I hope that the journey might spark a few fires for you as well. The hardest part of any journey, my expeditions have taught me, is taking the first step and beginning.

Dream Big but Start Small.

An Extensive Sequence of Articles Covering:

    1. Dreaming of Living Adventurously
    2. Dealing with the Barriers that are Stopping You
    3. Beginning
    4. Making Good Stuff Happen


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