If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine, it’s lethal.

PAULO COELHO

Do you live a life that is routine and mundane?

Does it leave you pining for more?

If so, what are you doing today to begin to extricate yourself from this pattern?

A life of adventure comes with the predictable highs and lows. The elated moments will automatically wash away the frustrations of the lower moments and replace them with the payoff for having walked the life of undetermined outcomes.

Adventure swings in both directions. There are unquestionably moments where the benefits of a predictable routine schedule will appear as vibrantly attractive as any adventurous horizon that one might have conjured at the outset of that journey.

Such is the imbalance of the unknown and unpredictable.

To some, the potential variances weigh too heavily upon their life perspective, causing them to err on the side of caution and safety.

To others, the drudgery of a highly predictable lifestyle, punctuated by highly predictable moments that are never too exciting, nor too surprising, seems a life sentence that would be impossible to serve.

If you are an adventure junkie, (as am I), you recognize that at a certain point, you are going to be required to continuously think on your feet. To make tough decisions in moments where you wish you were not called upon to do so. You must be ready to turn on a dime, and revise your course of action as quickly as is humanly possible, to avoid an onslaught in which you most certainly will perish.

The payoff for such a prerequisite is that the experiences that await you will be exponentially disparate from those contained within a simple, predictable routine.

The cultures you will encounter, thought processes you will entertain, foods that you will taste and life experiences that you will engage within, will genuinely tower above those that may ever arrive within the life of predictable security.

You will eventually grow to learn these truths to become self-evident and in that newfound awareness you will once again choose between the red pill or the blue pill.

Do you want to know what is outside of the matrix or are you content living within what is already known and proven to be reliable?

You have one journey on this hurtling rock through outer space. Make it count.

Happy Tuesday!