The Importance of being "Reckless" and Emptying you "Bucket"

Campeche Tarpon!

“No matter how qualified or deserving we are, we will never reach a better life until we can imagine it for ourselves and allow ourselves to have it. Argue for your limitations and, sure enough, they're yours.”

~ Richard Bach

In the end, and there is an end, that arrives when you least expect it… we all live the lives of our choosing, not matter the circumstances we find ourselves in.

There is never that “perfect time” or “perfect place” or “perfect person.”

And if you’re waiting for “someday” you should know, that someday never comes.

You have to bring it to yourself, while you still can.

More often than not, saying, “I can’t do that because I have responsibilities” is just code for:

“I won’t do that because I’m making excuses.”

And that’s okay, as long as you can live with it… in the end.

He is my question for you…

Why are you saving the good stuff for later?

Life’s not a dress rehearsal.

In my lifetime I have been among other things:

A rodeo bull rider, scuba diver, mountain climber, kayaker, wilderness trekker, conservation focused African big game hunter, full-contact martial artist, and have explored almost 30 countries across four continues so far.

I have watched the sunrise over Machu Picchu in Peru, Kilimanjaro in Kenya, the dunes of Namibia, the highlands of Scotland, mountains of Patagonia, and the porticos of the Colosseum of Rome.

I have explored jungles from west Africa to Costa Rica and the Brazilian Amazon. I dove the coral reefs of the Caribbean before they vanished. I've flown in bush planes and float planes and traveled across the Alaskan wilderness, Saharan and Kalahari Deserts , Congolese jungles, European alps, and both the Peruvian and Argentine Andes.

And, I have no financial wealth – none.

I am a “starving artist.”

In the movie Jurassic Park, actor Jeff Goldblum said it, and I will adapt it here and now….

Real Life Finds a Way.

So... Book the flight, take the trip, run the rapids, climb the mountain, drink the wine, run from the bulls, dance the tango, and laugh every day.

The problem with having a bucket list is you never empty the bucket. I don't have a bucket list.

I have whatever my next adventure may be - and there will always be an adventure to be experienced and long as I'm alive.

Go there and do that!

Self-Care is not Selfish.

The Time is Now.