Please do not be caught in the snare of being busy and working hard, and then spending time with your family, and then chasing material pleasures, and hustle and grinding, to the point where you’ve lost a sense of adventure. Please develop, as of today, a passion portfolio. That’s a portfolio of things that you love to do. I had a conversation with one client a little while ago. He said, “I used to love cycling so much. It made me so happy. Every day I’d be out on the bike.” I go, “How are you feeling these days?” He goes, “I’m not as happy.” I go, “Okay. Why don’t you get on the bike a bit more?” He goes, “Oh, what a great idea.”Isn’t it fascinating that when we are younger, there are all these passions we pursue that fill us with wonder and awe and joy and enthusiasm. And then when we become adults, and by the way, adults are nothing more than deteriorated children, right? When we’re kids, we have all these things that make us happy. And then we become adults, and we become serious, and we have responsibilities.And the responsibility steals and degrades our sense of wonder. And then we wonder why we’re not happy. Every week, go on a weekly adventure. It could be a new restaurant. It could be an art gallery. It could be a symphony. It could be getting on the phone or having a conversation with a person who’s just interesting to you and your community. It could be… What other kind of adventure could it be? Could be flying to a city for a long weekend. Here’s what I love doing, I love renting a hotel room in my home city. And then I go into that hotel room, just because there’s no mess, I feel this incredible freedom. And then I can watch a movie that I’ve been wanting to watch. I can write in my journal. I often buy these big sheets of paper that stick onto the walls. And I write about the next month or the next five years. I write about ideas I have to improve the important areas of my life. Sometimes, I’ll get one of these dry erase markers. And actually, I remember I was in Caracas, Venezuela for a leadership presentation. And I wrote on the windows, and I do it a lot. When I’m in Europe and when I’m in Southeast Asia, I just pull out the dry-erase marker. And I write on the mirror too, in the bathroom. That’s what you can do with these dry-erase markers. And then I know the room keeper probably is horrified. But I have all my ideas and my thoughts and my strategies and my dream maps. My whole room in the hotel, it’s like ideas all over the walls. It’s maybe like a scientist trying to figure out their theories. And then when I leave, I just take some Kleenex and I put some water on it, and I clean the mirror. And I leave the hotel room the way I found it. Find your adventures. It will inject a lot of creativity into your life. It’ll really amplify your energy.
