A documentation of my journey to improve my life
Tag: blog
When was the last time you picked up a good book and really invested yourself into it? Not a magazine or a TMZ article, not a news update or a blog rant but a real life, paperback, ink on your fingers, read until you fall asleep kind of book. A week, a month, a year? For me it has been many years since I had bothered to attempt a real book. Excluding the odd comic book (a nerdy pastime of mine) I...
Life is hidden behind the new I often hear people making cliché statements such as “life is short” or “this year has really buzzed by” when talking about their lives but I’ve noticed I rarely see anyone actually doing anything about that. We float through life thinking that ‘better’ is just on the other side of our horizon but what we don’t bother to notice is that we’re not actually moving closer to it. It’s like we all know we’re...
How many times in your life have you laid out plans for something really amazing just to have them flipped completely upside down at the very last minute? You lay out your strategy, you double check your work, make sure all your i’s are dotted and t’s are crossed and then life decides to come and rain on your parade. What do you do in these situations? What can you do? While attempting a month trying to ‘experience something new‘ everyday I’ve run...
Walking downtown recently I happened to find myself engrossed in someone else’s conversation/life. It was one of those situations where you don’t mean to ease drop but before you know it you’re three blocks into a story you can’t pull away from. A seemingly average girl had flung herself into tirade with her friend about how absolutely bored she was living here in Kelowna. As we walked she proceeded to vent at length about how tired she was of the ‘superficial people’, the ‘tired social scene’...
Life…Not As Advertised Life is exciting, life is adventurous, life is spontaneous and life is trilling. Life can whisk you away to new and interesting places, or push you to do things you never thought were possible. Life is amazing, fantastic and exhilarating! …or at least that’s what we’d like our lives to be. Unfortunately the reality is that our lives are more often a pretty simple and uneventful experience. We get up, scramble to get ready, go to work,...
Stuck In A Comfort Bubble So often in life we find ourselves living in a comfortable bubble that we’ve created for ourselves. We sit wrapped in our artificial security blankets living cautiously and conservatively, assuring that we are rarely forced to step far outside of our comfort zones. This can sometimes be a nice luxury affording us a sense of security and comfort, like a good job or a nice house, but often this is the very thing that holds us back from achieving what...
This whole year has been about challenging myself to be better, striving to get more out of life and pushing myself out of my comfort zone. Whether it’s been challenging myself to be a better cook or attempting to be more mindful and more productive I’ve tried to focus my challenges on areas I knew I had personal deficiencies with in an to attempt to slowly improve my life. This months swim challenge is in some ways very different though…This is the first...
No meat, No Dairy, No Eggs, No Fun? Vegans, the most dedicated, and often most outspoken of the meatless movement. As far as I could tell these people lived, ate, slept and breathed health and animal rights, sacrificing some of life’s most guilty dietary pleasures such as pizza, ice-cream and milk chocolate. Their sacrifice and commitment in the face of the common and easy dietary lifestyle really intrigued me. Having done my research over this past month and realizing the damning correlations...
Few times in my life can I recall having been moved by something so strongly that I was immediately forced to take action. To watch or read something and then immediately have the need to know more about it or the need to call a friend just to share must mean that it had profound impact on your life. This was the feeling I had after finishing the documentary Forks Over Spoons. Before the credits were even rolling on the screen I had grabbed my...
Vegetarian Junk Food It’s 9pm and I’ve just gotten out of a meeting that ran a lot longer than I had expected. I hadn’t eaten dinner yet and my stomach was starting to churn in anger and discomfort. I knew I should probably go home and make something but I also knew that would take another 30-45 mins until I would get to eat so instead I optioned for something quick, easy and tasty. I remembered there was a pizza...
