A documentation of my journey to improve my life
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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,...
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...
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...
Carnivorous Consideration Let me just start off by saying that I am a carnivore, well I guess omnivore actually but either way a meat eater. and I would even go so far as to identify myself as a meat connoisseur. Few things can beat grilling up a good streak on a nice BBQ on a hot summers day. Getting a steak to just the right temperature where you can see grill marks on the outside but the inside is still juicy and red (FYI: medium rare is...
As I sat knee’s locked and neck cramped squished into my seat on possibly the cheapest airline in the United States I had a lot running through my mind. I was returning home from our annual company trip to Scottsdale Arizona where I had just spent the last 5 days trying to find a balance between accomplishment and indulgence (not an easy balance to strike especially when the drinks are free and the peer pressure is high). I was the only...
A Reflective Run Through Toronto So there I was in Toronto Ontario; centre of the universe, home of Stanley Cup victories long passed and dreams (delusions) of new ones still fresh in people’s minds. I ventured out for a jog to clear my head after a long day at the conference I was attending. My headphones in, a smile on my face, my mind was completely engrossed in the incredible scenery around me. The buildings all had this eerie history...
