I travel outside and choose adventure over boredom
Rather than spending a week at home I decided to follow my own advice from many years ago and choose adventure over boredom. I walked the West Highland Way. 96 miles of walking and camping up Scotland’s west coast. The thing which made this a nice trip was the simplicity of it. Each day I …
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You hear of athletes who talk about turning nerves into energy and excitement.“I found that reappraising anxiety as excitement is more effective than trying to calm down.” a US study of pre-performance anxiety, researcher Alison Wood Brooks.You see them at the start line of a running track or a game, usually focusing on what needs to happen …
One of the things most often asked by other kayakers or canoers is how long have you been paddling? Simple enough question but it got me thinking, how long have I actually been paddling? My earliest memories of any sort of structured kayaking was when I was 10 and I got lessons in a swimming …
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