The Spirit of Adventure – with @StayAdventurous

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Our featured guest on our weekly twitter chat #SpiritChat this week is Craig Zabransky, founder of “Stay Adventurous”. Please join me and Craig in a conversation on Sunday, December 7th 2014 at 9amET / 2pmUTC to celebrate the Spirit of Adventure! ~ Kumud

Ever take a trip or do something just outside your comfort zone and feel truly “alive?” Did you let go of all your day-to-day issues and worries discover your true self, a happy self? Did you find a version of you that you love, but a version not often present in your daily routines?

Yes?

Well, do you want live every day as that adventurous version of yourself?

Yes? Me too.

I often question why people leave or even save such feelings for the weekends, holidays or special occasions? Why can’t everyone bring that spirit to our every day? Well, I believe we can, once we understand this spirit of adventure is a mindset, a choice.

Adventure is different for everyone. The same activity or thought patterns may not be considered adventurous by everyone’s standards, absolutely. But when we travel, when we explore, that adventurous person and the spirit of adventure often comes to the dinner table with us. He or she comes out and we often have some of the best times of our lives. Those moments become our stories and those adventures often become how we want to be remembered. People show their true self, who they really are, their essence, their spirit.

On Stay Adventurous; a mindset for travel a mindset for life, I encourage my readership to start to make this adventurous spirit part of the everyday. The travel related stories encourage and at times even state how to focus on taking back ideas and learnings from the road and make them part of a post adventure you. We can eat the cuisines, dance to the songs, we can experience (and celebrate) each sunset, and more.

For starters, I recommend the sunset. The moment is a perfect place to begin since it occurs everywhere and every day. Why not stop and appreciate it regardless of your location? It’s beautiful, albeit different, but beautiful everywhere. Knowing this is a perfect stepping stone to obtain a more adventurous outlook on life. You realize it is not just for travel or special occasions, but available every day. It becomes a choice we can make. And that is why I created the Sunset Sunday Series and also why I chose my mantra – stay adventurous.

So let’s discuss how a spirit of adventure becomes more of a journey and not a destination. Let’s use this adventurous spirit inside all of us to make a better you and me and raise the consciousness of everyone around us.

Stay adventurous in spirit, Craig

Craig Zabransky, an ex-global management consultant for Wall Street banks, traded in the pinstripe suit for life as a freelance writer, photographer, and social influencer. His new goal is to encourage people to take and make adventure in their lives. His focus on Stay Adventurous.com is to show, how the spirit of adventure, is a mindset for travel and a mindset for life. Simple reminders on the obtaining the adventurous mindset can be found in his 2015 Sunset Calendar – Get the Sunset Mindset and also via his tweets @StayAdventurous

LINKS:
Stay Adventurous
Sunset Sunday Series
2015 Sunset Calendar

Twitter:@StayAdventurous

A Spirit of Adventure

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adventure, spiritchat, spiritual, spirituality

From the day that we are born into the physical realm, our adventure begins. We may or may not be conscious of the adventure, but we are immersed in it as we steadily grow in the physical space around us. As newborns, a lot, if not all of our learning about the physical world comes from adventures in using our senses – we see, we hear, we ’speak’, we ‘eat’ (and mouth our toys :)) – and more… As we grow further in the physical space, we learn to crawl, to walk, and then, to run, and our spirit of adventure grows as we explore more of of the world around us. 

As long as our spirit of adventure leads us, our exploration continues. For some of us, as we grow ‘older’, this spirit of adventure seems to wane or weaken, or even get buried, as we assume more ‘responsibility’. Then, the ‘balancing act’ between what others think of us and our actions, and what we think of ourselves and our actions, begins. Our ‘conditioned’ mind tells us is that it is all part of ‘growing up’, even though our intuition and our heart may tell us, tug at us, to pay more attention to our spirit of adventure!

Some of us ‘adults’ do discover that adventure need not be confined to our actions in the outer, physical world. There are many layers to our being, and the physical layer is just one of them. We discover that ‘rearranging our inner furniture’ gives us as much a sense of adventure as white-water rafting in a river with category 5 rapids 🙂 We may come to the realization that ‘walking the dog’ and watching him or her explore new territory with unfettered joy rekindles the spirit of adventure within us. 

And so, the adventure continues. We, the #SpiritChat community, embark on a ‘group adventure’ every Sunday – at least that is the way that I look at it. The space that we ‘meet in’ gets colored by all our diverse life adventures, as we ‘play’ with the question and answers. One way that the spirit of adventure is rekindled is when we rediscover play, humor, light and lightness. Even though our outer world may be weighed down, and feel dark, we can lighten and brighten it by living in That awareness of inner shine and lightness.

For those of you who have read this far, and all of you who have supported #SpiritChat and/or continue to support the community, I am grateful. Without all of you, our weekly conversations would not have the same Spirit of Adventure that we experience every week. It is all of you that remind all of us that the (inner) adventure continues as long as we want it to continue…

Namaste, and be well in all of your life adventures,

Kumud

P.S. Join us Sunday June 29th at 9amET / 2pm UK / 6:30pm India in our twitter chat… If you cannot join us live, I invite you to share your ‘greatest’ adventure with the #SpiritChat community in the comments below. Thank you!