Ryan Lancaster

“Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while you could miss it.” — Ferris Bueller

This is one of my favourite quotes of all time. The delivery through the forth wall, what it represents to the character and to a generation he was speaking to. I always imagined myself capturing the greatest moments of my life like Ferris. But at 31 years old I realized a hard truth; I was working as mid-level manager, socializing or watching TV far too often and accomplishing very little. Life was passing me by…

After some (a lot of) late night reflection I realized the answer; I needed to scale my life. How would I do this? I would go back to basics. Like many people I was most productive when I was in school, where they gave me structure and clear goals to execute. My plan was to rebuild these short-term deadlines with lofty goals that I was passionate about but for one reason or another had left to fall by the wayside or procrastinated away for far too long.

My plan: 12 big challenges in 12 months.

I’ve now completed my year and the transformation it made for me was indescribable. Each challenge added so much value to my life and gave me back the purpose and passion I had been missing.

Now having completed my year of epic challenges I’m attempting to implement the same strategy to take my life to a whole new scale (pun intended). I don’t know where the rest of this journey will take me but if the second half is anything life the first I know I’m in for one incredible ride.

Please follow me, join me, or share your own challenges and we can create a community of dedication, accountability, and action.

Sincerely,

Ryan Lancaster
Life Upscaler