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Intrepid Living

This is an invitation to pause, reflect and choose to live with courage and intention.

“None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.”
Henry David Thoreau

Would I live my remaining years within the taunt of “is that all there is?” I decided in that moment to battle the winds of complacency, routine, and status quo. I had been bold and fearless through much of life – I wasn’t going to now slide into a state of retirement and aging by subscribing to the decelerating grey brigade.
Blog – The Brown Envelope

    What’s your truth?

    In my mid-40s, when my frayed and fragile mind and body turned on me, I knew I had to muster a level of gumption and honesty to change my life”
    Blog – The Brown Envelope
    Thus began my trepidatious journey inward, where I found recovery from alcoholism, and forward, where I found courage, energy and an insatiable desire to live wholeheartedly.

     

      INTREPID LIVING

      WHO

      Seeker • Teacher
      Occupational Therapist
      Solo European Traveller
      Financial Markets Trader
      Recovering Alcoholic
      Executive Coach
      Speaker & Facilitator
      Writer

      Boldly, I handed in my resignation and exited from a 16-year career. It has been a circuitous and bumpy pilgrimage from that cold and grey day in February when I rode the elevator down 68 floors to begin life at the ground level.
      Blog – The Brown Envelope

      While this was not the first marker of my intrepid nature, it was the beginning of my journey inward, my search for honesty and connection, and my desire to relinquish my ego, labels and fears.

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      HOW

      I wish to die with no regrets; only fear holds me back.

      Join me on a courageous and undaunted exploration of how we live our lives, learn, and choose to spend the time that lies before us . . . without regret.

      In my posts I will humbly and honestly share my observations, adventures and yearning.

      “The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.”
      Eleanor Roosevelt

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      WHY

      The top five regrets of dying people, according to Bronnie Ware, a former palliative care nurse, are:

      • I wish I’d had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me.
      • I wish I hadn’t worked so hard.
      • I wish I’d had the courage to express my feelings.
      • I wish I’d stayed in touch with my friends.
      • I wish I’d let myself be happier.

      If you were born in a developed country, your life span is estimated to be 80–85 years. As children, we are in a hurry to grow up, and life feels like it will go on forever.

      The hours and days are not to be squandered. Nor are they to be manically filled with experiences to be catalogued and measured as signs of success and media affirmed well-being. Fulfillment and joy may be found in the simplicity of daily living, as well as embracing novelty and challenge.

      “It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.”
      Marcus Aurelius

      Musings

      If not now – when

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