The Next Challenge

Tag: Motivation

  • The First Man to Row the Atlantic, Climb Everest and Cycle the World

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    Today, a guest blog from James Ketchell AKA Captain Ketch, the man who has rowed across the Atlantic Ocean, summited Mount Everest and cycle around the world. James recently joined the database of Long Distance Cycle Journeys (LDCJ) and kindly offered to write a piece for The Next Challenge. Over to the Captain… Over to…

  • The Most Boring Person in the World

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    Last year I received an email from Jens O. Meiert about the Everyday Adventures campaign I ran a few years ago. Independently, he had written a book called 100 Things I Learned As An Everyday Adventurer. So it seemed like a good idea to get in touch. Today Jens is taking over the blog to write about a new…

  • The 10 Best Adventurer-Bloggers

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    There are adventurers (think: Fiennes, Ousland, Grylls). And there are bloggers (think: well, think of someone who blogs a lot). And then are: Adventurer-Bloggers. This is a term I just made up but hopefully it’s self explanatory: people who both go on expeditions and spend time writing about them. The list below is really just…

  • Berghaus Microadventures

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    Head over to the Berghaus website to check out the start of our series of microadventure ideas for 2014. I’ve written about microadventures before – they are the brainchild of adventurer Alastair Humphreys, tiny little adventures for weekends and after work. They are similar to the Everyday Adventures campaign I ran in 2010 and the Berghaus…

  • Peace Pilgrim and Planet Walker

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    …sounds like the name of a dodgy crime fighting duo but they’re ac tually the names of a couple of cool projects. Howard Drakes sent me this email out of the blue which I thought might be of interest: [divide] Greetings Tim I came across your website today and connected with the energy that seems…

  • F.O.M.O.

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    Today, a guest post from my wife on the life-long condition of FOMO from which she, and I by association, suffer. [divide] F.O.M.O. By Laura Moss I have a fairly serious condition, unknown to the medical profession and undocumented by science. It can produce agitation, anxiety, aching muscles and exhaustion. It frequently leads to lack…

  • My First Step

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    My first step on the road to becoming an adventurer was something of a giant leap. I found myself dangling from a rope on a 6,000-metre peak in Kyrgyzstan that had only been climbed thrice. The trip was a disaster. The reference to dangling was not metaphorical. We never summited anything and our poor food…

  • Do More or Do Less? A Modern Conundrum

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    One of my qualities that I value most is my motivation. I like the fact that I am driven to do things like maintain this website and do all the stuff that fills its pages. As such, I frequently try to cram as much as possible into my days. Some examples include: Having a ticksheet on…

  • If You Think You’re Beaten, You Are

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    If you think you are beaten, you are; If you think you dare not, you don’t. If you’d like to win, but think you can’t It’s almost a cinch you won’t If you think you’ll lose, you’re lost, For out in the world we find Success begins with a fellow’s will; It’s all in the…

  • Austerity

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    My wife thinks I want to be a monk. Or at least that I aspire to a monastic lifestyle. It’s a reference to some of my more austere preferences in life. As evidence, she would cite my obsession with paring down belongings in the name of minimalism (even if it means getting cold, wet and…

  • Sharks, Hearts and Death-Bed Regrets

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    Below are six of the adventure and philosophical blogging highlights from April 2012.  Featured this month is advice on protecting yourself from sharks when swimming across oceans (useful stuff), running with a broken heart (in the more literal rather than romantic sense) and a strangely compelling motivational video (#3). I make a similar list each…

  • Science and Expeditions

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    A key motivation for expeditions over the ages, and into the present day, has been scientific research. I never write about it on this website though because I’ve never really got into it. I think it’s a great reason to go travelling on an adventure – probably more worthy than just for fun and self-fulfilment…