Just Go...

Today's post is a guest entry from my dear friends Gabi and Skip Yetter.   Their story is inspirational and their new bookJust Go,  is a great read. 

We had a beautiful home. Lots of great friends. Good jobs and full and happy lives.But there was something missing which we didn't realize till we traveled to Southeast Asia.

Gentle spirituality. Embracing people. Inexpensive lifestyle. Something intangible that spoke to us and drew us in.

We returned to our beautiful home, lots of great friends and our full lives as different people.

A seed had been planted and we spent the next three years watering it until it grew into a flowering blossom

We sold our home.

We quit our jobs.

We bid farewell to loved ones and, in June 2010, boarded a plane to Cambodia with a one-way ticket, two suitcases and hearts filled with anticipation.

"You'll come back," some said.

We didn't.

Almost from the moment we arrived, we fell in love with the chaotic, heart-warming, extraordinary country which became our new home.

Working as English resource volunteers for non-governmental organizations, we discovered how to integrate ourselves in the Cambodian community.

We connected with tuktuk drivers who became dear friends and learned how to speak a Khmer.

Our friends were Australian, Dutch, Italian, French, British, American and Cambodian.

Our lives were fuller and more meaningful than ever.

Our new book, JUST GO! Leave the Treadmill for a World of Adventure is our story and the story of others like us who decided to make a change.

It tells of people who walked away from lives in the west and discovered new worlds.

Dismounting from life as homeowners with mortgages, credit card bills and car payments to start afresh, they (and we) packed their bags and launched themselves into a new adventure.

And never looked back.

www.TheMeanderthals.com

New mercies...

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It's still early…

At around 8:30 AM it is early in the day.

It's Tuesday and therefore still early in the week.

Every morning you get new mercies.

You can extend those new mercies to any time of day.

A brand new, fresh moment to get it right…

What would getting it right look like right now?

No more carbs today?

Sit with your note book and catch up on your journal?

Practice your guitar?

Write your lover a note because it’s been way to long since you wrote your lover a note?

What if you turned that longing and head knowledge into actual action?

What if you did it right now?

Its still early...

Kick your "can't" to the curb...

When Alison married me I was 430lbs

Can you imagine?

She is 4’11” and a perfect weight for her height.

(see what I did there?)

We will have been married for fourteen years this June and I am literally half the size I was back then.

Yesterday I found myself ina role that had you told me fourteen years ago I would be in, I would have thought you were out of your mind.

Yesterday I got to play the role of my wife’s personal trainer.

I was as surprised as you are right now!

We walked into planet fitness, got her logged in as my guest and made our way to the elliptical machine, got her set up with a thirty minute, level three, interval workout.

She rocked it.

I have to admit that she rocked it way harder than I expected.

Very impressive.

Our next move was a mix of crunches and push ups.

Crunches on the crunch thing were a bit of a slow start but she got into her stride.

I could tell that her hesitation was beginning to grow.

“ok babe, push up time! Ready?”  I asked.

“Ummmm….. ok?” she replied her voice clearly uncertain.

I got her a mat and began to show her the starting position for a “modified” push up.

“I can’t” she said… “I can’t do this…. I can’t”

In total she offered seven “I can’ts” and then something happened.

I invited her to just do one.

One and done.

We made a few adjustments to where her hands were in relation to her shoulders and got her toes up off the ground.

She was poised for the one, greatest, modified pushup that the world has ever seen.

She didn’t do one…

After saying “I can’t” seven times and then having been asked to do just one, she didn’t.

She did twenty eight!

She got to seven and I said wow, lets get to ten.

Ten came and went and I said, jeez babe you’ve got twenty in you?

I counted them out for her and as my tone of voice shifted in one of certain completion, I said the word twenty.

She just kept going.

Twenty eight in total.

I can’t

Seriously I can’t

You don’t understand…

Seriously…

I can’t

It feels so true.

You’d pass a lie detector test if they asked you whether or not you believed you could.

Last week I was confronted with a couple “I can’ts” of my own.

With a few adjustments and an attainable goal Ali was able to accomplish what only moments earlier she was convinced she couldn’t.

What are you certain you can’t do?

What have you convinced yourself that you can’t have?

Who are you sure you can’t be?

Let’s start there but let’s not stop there.

I have my sites set on something I know I can’t do.

I'll be making an announcement about itsoon.

I can’t… I can...

I did…

I can’t…

I can...

I did…

I can’t…

I can...

I did…

You get the point…

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