Having financial skin in the game is really helpful. If you have a friend or someone else who's depending on you, that can be really powerful. Use your imagination, do some planning, but not too much planning and have fun. Tomorrow Shelby will tell us about the surprising power of humor when it comes to adventure.
Before you embark on a wild adventure, you obviously need to do some planning. But don’t go overboard. Give yourself a deadline, and get to work.
• Shelby Stanger is the host of REI’s “Wild Ideas Worth Living” podcast and the author of “Will to Wild: Adventures Great and Small to Change Your Life”
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