Description: Personal blog about living outside the rat race: Spiritually, socially, and financially. Also with family, work, play and health.
It was also a year of experimenting, learning, and traveling.
Going into the year, I felt like I needed a new challenge. Life was great, but I also felt like I was coasting. So, I set out to find that challenge. I couldn't articulate it so clearly at the beginning of the year, but that's what was happening.
It reminds me of the advice from Angela Duckworth in her book Grit : "interests are not discovered through introspection. Instead, interests are triggered by interactions with the outside world. The process of interest discovery can be messy, serendipitous, and inefficient." (Grit, p. 104). With that in mind, in addition to reading 25 books , I tried some new things.