Nov 16, 2020
I'm back again, with another solo episode! I've been thinking a lot about the importance of knowing your WHY for your outdoors adventures and fitness activities. It really helps to troubleshoot, make changes, and adjust details when you're in the middle of an activity and something goes wrong—or when you simply need to make some changes.
Knowing your WHY helps you to push yourself through challenging times so you can achieve your goals and stretch yourself out of your comfort zone. It helps with resilience. In this episode, I share a couple of examples from my recent outdoors adventures: a recent race and a fantastic 35K walk that I did last weekend.
Note: in the episode, I mention the idea of creating a separate values list for outdoors adventures, but when I sat down to do it, I realized the general values list works just as well for outdoors adventures. You can download that list via the link further down this page.
Listen To This Episode
What You'll Learn
- What is your WHY—what this actually means
- Why it's so important to know WHY you do your outdoors adventures
- Each adventure is different: why there's a different WHY for each experience
- How to use your WHY to get unstuck during an adventure
- How your WHY to help troubleshoot/pivot/change something
- Questions you can ask yourself before you start each adventure to get clear on your WHY
Things I Discussed
- The Best Backpacks for Hiking and Travel
- My running vest: Salomon Advanced Skin 12 Set Unisex Trail Running Vest Backpack
- Instagram photos of my 35K walk
- Joanna Penn's episode from her Books and Travel podcast: Walk Your Own Race: Lessons Learned From Walking A 50km Ultramarathon
- The yummy fruit salad gel I mentioned is part of this variety pack
- My favorite caffeine gummies
- Cara Wilde
- Jane Talbot
- Values list
- I do X because Y. Inspired by this blog post
- TrailRunner Nation episode: Pedestrianism- Our Long Lost Relative
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- 372 Holly Worton ~ How Outdoors Adventures Can Help Us Achieve Our Life Goals (now with downloadable transcript!)
- 361 Cara Wilde ~ How to Take the Brakes Off Your Personal Growth (now with downloadable transcript!)
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