This episode is an extract from Your Life in Bloom, my new book of musings on finding your path and your courage, grounded in the wisdom of nature. You can get a bundle of the ebook, audiobook, and a bonus workbook at livewildly.co/bloom. I hope you enjoy it. Music credit: Niclas Gustavsson / Cotton Dreams / courtesy of epidemicsound.com

This episode is an extract from Your Life in Bloom, my new book of musings on finding your path and your courage, grounded in the wisdom of nature. You can get a bundle of the ebook, audiobook, and a bonus workbook at livewildly.co/bloom. I hope you enjoy it. Music credit: Niclas Gustavsson / Cotton Dreams / courtesy of epidemicsound.com

This episode is a chapter from Your Life in Bloom, my new book of musings on finding your path and your courage, grounded in the wisdom of nature. You can get a bundle of the ebook, audiobook, and a bonus workbook at livewildly.co/bloom. I hope you enjoy it. Music credit: Niclas Gustavsson / Cotton Dreams / courtesy of epidemicsound.com

This episode is an extract from Your Life in Bloom, my new book of musings on finding your path and your courage, grounded in the wisdom of nature. You can get a bundle of the ebook, audiobook, and a bonus workbook at livewildly.co/bloom. I hope you enjoy it. Music credit: Niclas Gustavsson / Cotton Dreams / courtesy of epidemicsound.com

This episode is an extract from Your Life in Bloom, my new book of musings on finding your path and your courage, grounded in the wisdom of nature. You can get a bundle of the ebook, audiobook, and a bonus workbook at livewildly.co/bloom. I hope you enjoy it. Music credit: Niclas Gustavsson / Cotton Dreams / courtesy of epidemicsound.com

This episode is a chapter from Your Life in Bloom, my new book of musings on finding your path and your courage, grounded in the wisdom of nature. You can get a bundle of the ebook, audiobook, and a bonus workbook at livewildly.co/bloom. I hope you enjoy it. Music credit: Niclas Gustavsson / Cotton Dreams / courtesy of epidemicsound.com

This episode is an extract from Your Life in Bloom, my new book of musings on finding your path and your courage, grounded in the wisdom of nature. You can get a bundle of the ebook, audiobook, and a bonus workbook at livewildly.co/bloom. I hope you enjoy it. Music credit: Niclas Gustavsson / Cotton Dreams / courtesy of epidemicsound.com.

Taylor Swift singing in cabins in the forest. The rise of /r/cottagecore and /r/simpleliving on Reddit. Secretly fantasising about being one of the kids learning to survive in the woods in Captain Fantastic. When women have more freedom than ever, what’s with the trend of wanting to leave the office and vanish into the woods forever to grow squashes, bake pies, and raise a few goats? Here’s one perspective. https://www.livewildly.co/blog/dropping-it-all-to-start-a-farm/ (Read the blog post here) and https://live-wildly.mykajabi.com/life-studio (sign up for Life Studio here).

Is a life without a grand mission a failure? Is having multiple career paths a sign you can’t commit to anything? Is not knowing where you’re going a problem? No, of course not. If anything, it’s more interesting. Your life doesn’t need a purpose or grand ambition. It’s enough to just wander along following your curiosity, finding interesting things, and sharing what you know until you die. Doing that – and aspiring to be a good creature along the way – makes for a pretty fantastic life, really. What does matter is making yourself proud. That means living in a way you admire and valuing your time enough to not stay too long in a place you feel stuck. Music credits Canyon Bird Life / courtesy of epidemicsound.com

“Instructions for living a life. Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it”. – MARY OLIVER  Work out what’s important to you. Prioritise it. Schedule time for this before other things. Every day, imagine what it will be like to achieve your biggest goals. Dream big. Visualise everything coming true. That’s the first step to making it happen. Know that your possessions aren’t going to make you happy. Nor are they going to cultivate the image of who you want to be. You do that with how you act. Buy fewer things and have more to spend on trips to the mountains, picnics by the lake, and good food and wine with friends. Let your savings bring you peace of mind and options. Dream up what your ideal day looks like. Think about the small upgrades you can make to get closer to this and live more of it every day. Make your life a canvas. Be grateful for everything you already have and take time to enjoy the journey, slowly, as you follow your wild dreams. Everything is happening at exactly the right pace... Read the full manifesto over on the Live Wildly Blog: https://www.livewildly.co/blog/life-wildly-manifesto/ Music credits Canyon Bird Life / courtesy of epidemicsound.com