If you’ve already completed Lessons 1 and 2 then you should have an awesome adventure list at your disposal and you should have already completed one adventure (big or small) from that list.

But I’m guessing that some of you may not have finished Lesson 2 =)  And that’s okay!  Sure, living a life of adventure sounds super fun and easy, but we all have a lot of voices in our heads that we’ve collected over the years that may be telling us that having fun and being adventurous are a waste of time.  Having adventures just isn’t something a responsible grown-up would do.  We’re supposed to be serious, pay our bills, and watch CNN. 

However, if you’re like me, you think that’s just silly!  Life is out there, ready to be experienced.  As it says on the coffee mugs, Carpe Diem!

Lesson 3

So today we’re going to make another list.  A list of all of the reasons we can’t do the adventures on our list.  The reasons why we shouldn’t do the adventures on our list.  The reasons people may think we are ridiculous if we do the adventures on our list.

Here are two to start with:

1.  I don’t have enough money

2.  I don’t have enough time

When you’re finished with your list you can do one of two things.  You can take that list onto an episode of Point Counterpoint a la Saturday Night Live and for each thing that you wrote down, think of a counterpoint.  For example:

1.  I don’t have enough money  (many adventures are free)

OR you can take that list and throw it away!  Tear it up, crumple it up, put it throug the shredder.  Cut it up and make a collage out of it, just as long as you take away its power.  Our doubts should never be given that much control.

Feel better?