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Diggers and Dreamers - The Guide to Communal Living in Britain. Heartwood Community We are currenly rebuilding a two storey roundhouse and are hosting three building camps. May 4-11 Turf roof, ash polesJune 8-15 Shingle roof sheeps wool insulation, wattle and daubAug31 - Sep 7th - Floors, sheeps wool food store. We are looking for 10 volunteers for each camp you will have to pay a contribution for your food x please email labeled building camps framingAug 17 - 25 Timber framing, oak shingles, turf roof Accomodation is a shared strawbale barn, with a 18ft kitchen/ dining room, there will be a small cost for food as we are paying a friend to cater!

We would love you to come and help There are a variety of ways you can visit Heartwood in 2013 1) We are looking for enthusiastic Long Term Volunteers to join our community from March 2013 - Oct 2013. 2)We are also looking for short term volunteers to help with vegetable gardening, chopping and processing wood (if u have a chainsaw license hurrah!) Message will be displayed until Mar 12 2015 Grow Heathrow Thank you. Fuck your badtrip bro.'s photos. Fearful Adventurer — Exploring the world one terrified step at a time. How to Make Money With Google Adsense - Earnings Revealed. Unorthodox Lifestyle Strategy — Break Your Comfort Zones With Derek Johanson. About - TheFeelGoodLifestyle.com. Two years ago, I hit a low-point in my life. After quitting an unfulfilling corporate job and having my admission to Grad school denied, I found myself stuck with no plan.

Humbled, I had no choice but to move back in with my Mom. Thus began the hardest 5 months of my life. I felt lost, frustrated, uninspired…. and totally confused as to how I fit in the world. Deep down, I felt like I had a lot to offer, but I had no idea how to share it with the world. So one day, I decided to make a big move. Soon began the most transformative experience of my life. I realized that I’m on this planet to experiment with, live and teach the principles of Optimal Living. My unique gift to the world is to help and inspire others to step into their greatness, become the best version of themselves, and make big things happen in the world.

Since I’ve started living on this path, my entire life has been transformed.I feel more alive, energetic, passionate, and connected than ever before. An Incredibly Simple Way to Find Your Career Passion. Everywhere you look—Amazon, Indie Bookstores, blogs, and so on—you’ll find advice on how to discover your career passion. One blogger advises that you write whatever comes to mind, without stopping, until you hit upon something that makes you cry.

Several books laud personality tests as the key to uncovering your passion. And the advice goes on and on. However, the simplest way to find your career passion is to give things away. What are people always asking you for advice on? Give your advice away. Right now you might be thinking, “Marelisa, free is not a business model”. What you enjoy doing.What others value.What others are willing to pay for. Your career passion is where those three things intersect. The three people are the following: Ed WallerRebecca FineAshley Qualls Read about their experiences below. Ed Waller – Gave His Advice Away Ed Waller was a financial advisor who woke up one morning experiencing heart failure and a stroke. That’s when Ed started selling “My List For Life”. Soulbird - Tales of Escape: Adventure. Crossing Africa Who Lucie, Lachlan, and Bow Wow Their occupations Gypsy, Slick Suit in Finance, Dog The trip Crossing Africa by 4x4 How did Vagabond Van come about?

When and where did the adventure begin? We actually met in Edinburgh in Scotland in the summer of 2009, we were both living there at the time. The real adventure began when I met Lachlan. Lachlan's background is in IT. "On date five, flying over cobblestones in the back of a black cab, we hatched a plan to drive across Africa helping communities along the way through trade. " L U C I E, L A C H L A N, and B O W W O W. Where have you been, and where are you going? We three have cut our teeth on over 25,000 km of dirt roads across Southern Africa. We are flying back to Britain next month to trade with Vagabond Van at the summer festivals and to launch our new project, Band4Hope.

How has traveling together changed the relationship for the two of you? "...some of the stuff we’ve learned...Don’t mess with warthogs... Thanks guys! Ps. ~Fáti. Keep Your Energy High & The Rest Takes Care Of Itself. Photo credit: stevendepolo This is a guest post by Armen Shirvanian writes words of wisdom about mindset, communication, relationships, and related topics at Timeless Information. You can follow him on Twitter at @Armen. Instead of focusing on a set of tasks that you have in mind to complete, you can travel through those tasks in a different mindset by placing your focus on your energy level. If you can maintain a high energy level, tasks will become as easy to work through as tying your shoes.

Here I discuss what keeping your energy high entails. Remain Watchful Of Your Energy Level Keeping your energy high first involves not letting yourself down. If you have a negative thought about yourself, and ignore or cancel it before it settles, your energy and focus won't be affected. Watch your thoughts, for they become words. Watch your words, for they become actions. Watch your actions, for they become habits. Watch your habits, for they become character. Start off your morning as you. On Working Virtually – Find Your Strengths. Here’s the scene. We’re on a relentlessly rocking ship (see last week’s post ), heading across the treacherous Drake Passage as we make our way from Antarctica back to South America and then (finally) home to Seattle. Visiting Antarctica was the capstone experience of this journey, bookending several months of volunteering and exploring in the Southern Hemisphere. It was now time to head home. Ugh. A blurb from our journal: After several months away, we’re heading back to Seattle.

Now that we’re paying attention to the news again, we’re also pondering (owning up to!) Returning home. At some point, most travelers – even long term adventurers – come home. Frequently this annoying circumstance is work. We tend to have a soft spot for blog posts that get into any turmoil surrounding the return home. Sound familiar? Getting clarity and facing our dreams. Our transition back to Seattle a few Januarys ago was rough. At the time, it all seemed like too much – like a dream. What we were thinking. 6 Ways For Maintaining High Energy Levels.

A few months ago I wrote a piece about riding the waves of life . It discussed how our energy levels (and our productivity, happiness and motivation levels) fluctuate on a regular basis. Whether it is monthly, weekly or even daily, these fluctuations can have a very considerable influence on the way we live our lives. At the end of that post I declared I was going to experiment with ways of trying to influence energy levels so that I would have less dips, more peaks and greater balance.

It took several months but here, finally, are my suggestions: Don’t multi-task Despite it being the done thing in business circles to focus on multi-tasking as a way of boosting productivity, humans aren’t actually very good at it . What’s more it takes the average person twenty minutes before the brain starts to focus in on a task. How to Maintain High Energy | Cabrera Insights.

Many people today are facing an energy crisis. We don’t get enough sleep and we spend our days fighting traffic, rushing to meetings, and stressing about deadlines. So what can we do to maintain a high energy level throughout the day? Many of us turn to caffeinated beverages to boost our energy. I must admit I’m sipping my second cup of coffee as I write this blog.

But I am going to start doing things differently after reading about a fascinating new study looking at strategies that workers use to manage vitality and fatigue. According to the study by Charlotte Fritz, Chak Fu Lam, and Gretchen Spreitzer, many of the strategies that we typically use to increase our energy level actually do the opposite! Drink a caffeinated beverageTalk to someone about common interests like sports or hobbiesListen to musicSurf the webCheck and send personal e-mails or text messagesMake plans for the evening or weekendDaydreamShop So the next time you need a pick-me up don’t reach for the Red Bull. 10 Practical Ways to Boost Your Energy Level. I am a high-energy person. But I haven’t always been that way. There have been times in my life when I was utterly exhausted. Times when getting through the day was a big chore.

Times when I had nothing left to give by the end of the day. Times when I just wanted to collapse into bed and pull the covers over my head. Photo courtesy of ©iStockphoto.com/erikreis But in recent years, I am been very deliberate about managing my energy level. Here’s how I keep my energy level high: Connect with God. Your energy level doesn’t have to remain low. Questions: What works for you? Want to launch your own blog or upgrade to self-hosted WordPress? Asian Photography Blog. Dave Cornthwaite escaped the 9 to 5. Here he tells you how.. - Secret Compass | Exploration and Adventure - Secret Compass.

It’s such a drag, isn’t it? Wake, breakfast, out the door, commute, through the door, work, lunch, work, out the door, drink, commute, dinner, bed. And over again. How do you spend your weekdays? Do you enjoy it? Would you do it for free? Are you excited to head in each morning? If not, how is it affecting you? If you live life around the edges of a 9 to 5 time becomes everything. If you’re happy in your job – I mean happy, not just content – and if you never feel like you’re working and if you can’t imagine doing anything else with your life then you can stop reading now. If you daydream at work, wishing you were elsewhere, or you’re only doing your job because it pays you or you can’t stand the way your boss breathes or you have to drag yourself out of a ruddy great rut every single morning except for Saturdays.

Everyone is brilliant. I used to be a graphic designer. I had a wake-up call before it was too late, and I acted on it. I quit my job in April 2005 and haven’t looked back. Operations Support for an adventure travel company - unique entry level position, Jobs : Explorers Connect : Adventure shared. 64 Ways Location Independent People Earn a Living.

Have you ever wondered how you could earn a living that would allow you to live and work anywhere in the world? Many people already living that dream shared the details of how they make a living in the recent Location Independent and Digital Nomad Survey. 64 of their answers are below. The results might surprise you if you thought location independent people were all bloggers or online business owners. The truth is that these people earn a living in many different ways. Sure, there are plenty of freelance writers, consultants and web developers, but there are also professional musicians, lobbyists and land developers on the list. Check out these 64 real ways people earn a location independent living: