I love this question, and it's one that I never stop asking myself. Like you suggest, adventure is something that can be infused into our routine, but oddly enough, it seems more challenging than picking up and moving to another country. When you move to a foreign place, all the adventure is laid out before you like a feast - one where you didn't have to do any of the cooking! You arrive and everything around you - the smells, the food, the architecture, the language, the people - it's exciting with little effort on your part.

But at home, you can so easily become accustomed to everything and everything (and everyone) seems used to you. You have to make a decision to be the actor in the play of your own life and not be passive about routine becoming a killer to your adventures. Routine demands that we stay inside of certain paths, boxes, appearances and roles. If you are already feeling excitement brew inside of you when you think of how to break out of these limitations, then you know where to begin.

I believe that once you begin one small thing, that act begets another change, and another... it's a domino effect! Start small and do something "risky" everyday. If it doesn't harm you or your family, if it isn't breaking any moral or (big) civil codes/laws and it feels a little bit scary... then try it! What is adventurous to one person is routine to another, so explore yourself and find what will work for you.

One way to brainstorm possible adventures: go back to childhood to poke around the mentality you had then. What memories do you have of things you wanted to do when you grew up? If you're like me, there are usually unfulfilled dreams just waiting for you there. These are things that you couldn't do when you were little, but that little version of you was sure that if you COULD do/be/have those adventures, you would without question. You laid in bed at night dreaming of the day that would come when amazing you would fulfill your destiny as a _________. (Right? What was it? :) You just have to go back and regain some of that invincible and free feeling because now that you have the knowledge and abilities (to at least begin) you have no excuse! Forget the critics. Forget the limits. Forget what other people expect of you. Use that super mix of childhood imagination and grown-up know-how and please email me when you have your first adventure!