2010 The Year of Adventure-Some Resolutions

This is my adventure-tell me about yours…

2010 is going to be a fantastic year for me, it’s going to be the year when it all comes together and I can realise a longheld dream of manpowering round the world.

But adventure isn’t about size, it’s about attitude. Below are a few ideas for resolutions to change your life or the way you look at your life for the better.

1) Take a photo everyday. Al Humphreys did it in 2009. The photo’s don’t need to be high quality it’s just about seeking out your life and documenting it. Amazing things happen everyday and we miss them wrapped up in our ipod cocoon.

2) Train to do 100 press ups. This is a completely nominal number and a completely random excercise and yet there is some draw to the centurion of push ups!

3) You have plenty of time to sleep when you’re dead. Wake up 10minutes earlier than usual and go to bed ten minutes later-this will give you five days extra each year. You can use this time to stretch, contemplate, prepare, reconnect…

4) Do something nice for someone else every day …and if anyone finds out it doesn’t count.

5) Read a new book every week, read each chapter in a different place (on the bus, in the park, in bed etc)

6) Each month try and spend some time at the seaside and in the mountains.

7) Do something that you hate each week until you like it. It doesn’t matter if it’s listening to different kinds of music, running, cycling, swimming, studying, dancing, walking, eating healthily-find some way to learn to love it.

Tell me about you upcoming adventures, I love hearing about trips and expeditons and will help in any way I can.

1. Michelle says:
   2010-01-06 10:02:21
   My new years resolutions are: To go to tenerife and support Dan through endless sea training for a few days, to swim the gibraltar straights and to swim windermere.....you are an inspiration to us all in the swimming world and I cant wait to track your progress x
2. Lloyd says:
   2010-01-02 16:52:00
   Hello Dan, you brilliant nutcase! Brilliant site! Good suggestions! I have heard some of them somewhere else, but they seem all the more real coming from someone like yourself! Good for you and thank you for being brilliant! 2010 is a big year for me too as I am going for a life long dream of swimming the English Channel! I am doing it to raise money for MAGPAS who are like the flying Doctors of the East Anglian region of England. They saved my life when I was a baby! This is a huge thing for me! I was speaking to a friend I met through facebook, Michelle Sharples, she gave me your link, its amazing! Do you have a boat that you will sleep on during the swim...I guess so either that or you can sleep swim! haha! Listen all the best, it sounds and is...biblical! Good luck, Lloyd