Recently I read about an African tribe that has the most amazing way of dealing with people when they do hurtful or "wrong" things... The entire tribe stand around the person in the centre of town and for two whole days they will tell the person every good thing they have ever done. They don't solve hate with hate or violence with violence, they treat misdeeds with pure love and kindness. They have a belief that each and every one…
Travel has always been a high priority in my life, but for reasons I'll go into in a later article I've been on lock down in New Zealand these last two years. But, with the clouds about to part ways... I can feel my feet getting very very itchy again. I'm a firm believer that money is best spent on experiences, so with that here's all the things I've gotten out heading abroad. If you're going to do anything awesome…
Over a million New Zealander’s are considered “physically inactive”. So I’m on a mission to get 10,000 + of us kiwis moving forwards and going for walks. Why? Because walking has been proven to make you feel good, walking has the least number of barriers to entry, it requires no money and has more stick-ability then any other form of exercise. The truth is, society fills us with fears and insecurities so that we can go run around in a…
This whole positivity thing is hard and I've always known that, but knowing that doesn't always make it easier. It's like a successful relationship, it not only takes time and hard work but continual work and effort. So lately, I've been pondering and self-analyzing and noticed that I sometimes beat myself up about things that are fairly unnecessary and somewhat ridiculous. So I thought maybe I'd ramble on about some things you shouldn't beat yourself up about.... Don't beat yourself…
“What are you up to this weekend?” “I think I’m going to go to Buenos Aires, rent an apartment for a month, drink some local wine, learn a little bit of tango and try to speak Spanish badly”. I still remember that feeling of infinite possibilities come over me the first time a 747 took me away on a new chapter of my life, location independence. Out of any goal in life at the time, this was my holy grail…
Back in the day, I went to school, with people. One of those people gave me a call a couple of months ago and said that he'd love it if we'd be the charity that they raised money for on "The Rickshaw Run". Bastards. I didn't want to be the charity! I wanted to go! Alas, there were waterslides to build and books to launch so I stopped complaining and said "Thank you. Thank you very much..." Basically, Tim, Blanco,…
We will get more into the concept of mindfulness in the future with some guest posts, but basically it is this; Mindfulness: "bringing one’s complete attention to the present experience on a moment-to-moment basis" I figured out quite a cool way to do that this morning... I showered with the lights off. In the dark. It really is a beautiful way to get up. It's kind of like a sensory deprivation chamber in that since you can't see anything the…
A while back I wrote an article about bucket lists, you can read it here... Basically the jist of it is that they don't really work. Goals need an appropriate timeline and "before I die" is the most useless and weak timeline you could ever set. So I introduced you to LMA Lists, lists of awesome goals that had to be completed in the next three years. Much better time line... But here's the next step... It's called LifePoints. Step…
We have a very special job available... Dan and I are getting too old to test this stuff out ourselves, so we need a man or woman with some serious cahoneys to help us by being the Test Pilot for the World's Biggest Waterslide! You will be our very own "Stig". We will need you for media appearances as well as all sorts of different variations of slide testing. This position is available to anyone living in New Zealand. We'll…
