Clearly Nims Purja believed this to be true

Why are we writing about him you are probably wondering?

Because we hear so often from people how fearful they are of change, of doing something different, of stepping outside their comfort zone.

We get it because we’ve been in that situation fearful of doing something about the position we found ourselves in back in 2008

But we conquered that fear and today we can feel grateful we had the courage

This film (the trailer is below) had us hooked on the courage of this man and his achievements

Achievements not just for himself but for those who joined him on Project Possible

We’re not climbers but we do respect the power of the mountains as skiers

In the film this fearless Nepali mountaineer Nirmal Purja embarks on a seemingly impossible
quest to summit all 14 of the world’s 8,000-meter peaks in seven months

It’s never been done before and as he says ‘It’s about achieving the impossible in life’

Climbing the 14 mountains above 8,000 meters — Everest, K2, and a dozen more — in just six months and six days. In the process, he reached new frontiers of human possibility

You can read more on his exploits here

When asked why he said

” I have to push my limits to the max. Sitting tight, waiting it out and living in the past, has never been my thing. I want to be at the world’s highest point again, knowing it might slip out from underneath me at any moment. Because that is the only way to live. If You Give Up, You Die”

Nimsdai Purja, Beyond Possible

He and his fellow climbers set a path for others to follow

Isn’t that all we can hope for, that someone will set a path for us to follow in whatever endeavour we undertake

Tavira is a small city on Portugal’s Algarve coast. It straddles the Gilão River, which reaches the sea through the inlets and lagoons of Ria Formosa Natural Park. It’s know for its cobbled streets and quaint houses, shops and restaurants. We chose this as our base for our adventures as it’s in the Eastern Algarve where we’re looking to live and work in our retirement years

Each day we share some of our favourite photos from the day and our thoughts about life in general. We hope you’ll enjoy reading them and are inspired to do more with the precious life you have been given.

Day Zero The Journey begins : Click Here To Read

Day 1 Bliss Is On The Other Side Of Fear : Click Here To Read

Day 2 Variety Is The Spice Of Life : Click Here To Read

Day 3 Choices : Click Here To Read

Day 4 Fulfilment : Click Here

Day 5 What If You Put Your Mind To It : Click Here To Read

Day 6 Make Today The Day You Win : Click Here To Read

Day 7 : Trust & Value : Click Here To Read

Day 8 First Impressions Click To Read Here

Day 9 A Goal Without A Plan Is Just a Wish : Click Here To Read

Day 10 Not Taking Risks Is The Biggest Risk We Can Take : Click Here To Read

Day 11 Maybe It’s About Time : Click Here To Read

Day 12

Day 13 𝗢𝗵 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗲𝘀 𝗬𝗼𝘂’𝗹𝗹 𝗚𝗼 : Click Here To Read

Day 14 Exceeding Expectations : Click Here To Read

Day 15 Make It Happen : Click Here To Read

Day 16 Focus On The Good : Click Here To Read

Day 17 Don’t Worry Be Happy : Click Here To Read

Day 21 Sunsets : Click Here To Read

Day 22 Be Grateful For Every Day : Click Here To Read

Day 23 Keeping Your Vision Alive : Click Here To Read

Day 24 Walking On Sunshine : Click Here To Read

Day 25 Trends for 2023 : Click Here To Read

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Impromptu lunch beside the river in the winter sunshine listening to a violinist playing the theme tune from Titanic

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Day 26 It’s not all sunshine and roses : Click Here To Read

Day 27 Isn’t it time you planned your escape? : Click Here To Read

Day 28 Time To Go Home : Click Here To Read

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To A Happy Healthy & Wealthy Retirement

To A Happy Healthy & Wealthy Retirement

As the owners of Living The Retirement Lifestyle and UK citizens just like our friends across the pond in the United States, we have to consider the in’s and out’s of retiring abroad and let’s face it in the current economic climate with rising inflation and pending recession it’s important to think about making our money go further, our better health and of course not forgetting that all important lifestyle

Since we can’t speak for those of you in the USA we asked our friends at Retire Guide for permission to publish their Guide To Living Outside The US as they have all the professional back up for those things we don’t know about in the UK such as working after retirement and any IRS rules and regulations, medicare, pensions and retirement accounts

So where would you like to live?

Time to explore

You have a lot of choices when it comes to where to live and what to do in retirement.

Many places abroad could make for a good retirement spot, depending on your preferred lifestyle and interests. Not everyone wants to live beside the ocean even though we know we do!

Here are a few of the best and most popular places you may want to research if you plan to retire abroad.

Costa Rica is without doubt one of our favourite destinations (we’ve visited four times and just love it.

If you love the outdoors and adventure, then this country could be an excellent choice. Costa Rica is one of the most biodiverse nations globally and includes everything from rainforests to volcanoes to cities.

With a very low cost of living, your money can go far in Costa Rica, allowing you to live out a high lifestyle in a country close to home

Read more here

Then there’s Mexico

If you’re ready to get out of the U.S., Mexico is a good option, but not too far from home. The country also has a significant population of expats, meaning you could probably find a community of Americans to mix with

One of Mexico’s most significant benefits is its low cost of living. It’s another nation where your money will go far, and your retirement savings can support a lifestyle that wouldn’t be tenable back in the U.S.

But what about Panama?

We’re going there in November and it’s been a place we’ve wanted to explore for a very long time

Situated at the bottom of Central America, Panama works to make Americans want to retire there and has one of the most generous retiree packages in the world.

Read more here

There are many other options such as Spain, Portugal, France but as our friends at Retire Guide say

Own the story and get to write your own ending

You can listen in to the full video her – it’s only 10 minutes long but well worth it

Best advice “be a part of a creative community”

We couldn’t agree more – it’s the most inspiring thing and what gives meaning to what we do in our second half of life – our second mountain

Check out this video The Most Eye Opening 10 Minutes Of Your Life by Brené Brown

Thanks for watching and giving thought to your second half of life

Love to know what you think after you’ve listened to, watched or studied the captions a few time

This is the video by Prince Ea that shares the secret – the wealthiest place in the world and the message (it’s been viewed almost 4 million times at time of writing this blog!) we all need to hear!

Why Most People Die Before 25

Have You Died Already? Is there a gift, dream or passion inside of you that you are hiding from the world? Don’t let a lifetime pass by before you realize that you are special. Step into your greatness.

We remember watching this video (which really should be entitled ‘where is the wealthiest place in the world’ by Prince Ea many years ago and thinking about what he said and it spurred us on to continue on our new journey… to live our dream and along the way to help others live theirs. We definitely weren’t prepared to let a lifetime pass us by

We sincerely hope reading where is the wealthiest place in the world this and listening in to the video you won’t either

Helen Keller was once asked, “What on earth will be worse than being born blind?” She said, “It will be so much worse to be born with sight, but no vision.”

There are so many words, so many great quotes, so many valuable lessons to learn

They say the average person dies at 25, but is buried at 75. Know what that means? I’ll let you figure it out

Thanks for watching the video and for reading this post where is the wealthiest place in the world on Living The Retirement Lifestyle and we hope it inspires you just as it inspired us – that you take that idea, your knowledge, your talent and make an impact on the world and leave a legacy.

The original title was The 3 A’s Of Awesome and as that title suggests this is going to be something you will definitely want to read. It was also the title of a Ted Talks Video by Neil Pashricha that will have you hooked from beginning to end… and trust us it WILL MAKE YOU THINK about a lot of stuff

The introduction on the Ted Talks introduces Neil via his blog 1000 Awesome Things (link at the end of this article) which savours life’s simple pleasures. In this heartfelt talk, Neil reveals the 3 secrets (all starting with A) to leading a life that’s truly awesome…

The 3 A’s Of Awesome Are:-

• Attitude
• Awareness
• Authenticity

Because this is such an awesome Ted Talk and because we know that some of you like to read versus watch a video (or do both like us) then we’ve grabbed the transcript for you timestamped right the way through

00:03

So the Awesome story: It begins about 40 years ago, when my mom and my dad came to Canada. My mom left Nairobi, Kenya. My dad left a small village outside of Amritsar, India. And they got here in the late 1960s. They settled in a shady suburb about an hour east of Toronto, and they settled into a new life. They saw their first dentist, they ate their first hamburger, and they had their first kids. My sister and I grew up here, and we had quiet, happy childhoods. We had close family, good friends, a quiet street. We grew up taking for granted a lot of the things that my parents couldn’t take for granted when they grew up — things like power always on in our houses, things like schools across the street and hospitals down the road and popsicles in the backyard. We grew up, and we grew older. I went to high school. I graduated. I moved out of the house, I got a job, I found a girl, I settled down — and I realize it sounds like a bad sitcom or a Cat Stevens’ song —

01:10
(Laughter)

01:12
but life was pretty good. Life was pretty good. 2006 was a great year. Under clear blue skies in July in the wine region of Ontario, I got married, surrounded by 150 family and friends. 2007 was a great year. I graduated from school, and I went on a road trip with two of my closest friends. Here’s a picture of me and my friend, Chris, on the coast of the Pacific Ocean. We actually saw seals out of our car window, and we pulled over to take a quick picture of them and then blocked them with our giant heads. (Laughter) So you can’t actually see them, but it was breathtaking, believe me.

01:56
(Laughter)

01:58
2008 and 2009 were a little tougher. I know that they were tougher for a lot of people, not just me. First of all, the news was so heavy. It’s still heavy now, and it was heavy before that, but when you flipped open a newspaper, when you turned on the TV, it was about ice caps melting, wars going on around the world, earthquakes, hurricanes and an economy that was wobbling on the brink of collapse, and then eventually did collapse, and so many of us losing our homes, or our jobs, or our retirements, or our livelihoods. 2008, 2009 were heavy years for me for another reason, too. I was going through a lot of personal problems at the time. My marriage wasn’t going well, and we just were growing further and further apart. One day my wife came home from work and summoned the courage, through a lot of tears, to have a very honest conversation. And she said, “I don’t love you anymore,” and it was one of the most painful things I’d ever heard and certainly the most heartbreaking thing I’d ever heard, until only a month later, when I heard something even more heartbreaking.

03:11
My friend Chris, who I just showed you a picture of, had been battling mental illness for some time. And for those of you whose lives have been touched by mental illness, you know how challenging it can be. I spoke to him on the phone at 10:30 p.m. on a Sunday night. We talked about the TV show we watched that evening. And Monday morning, I found out that he disappeared. Very sadly, he took his own life. And it was a really heavy time.

03:39
And as these dark clouds were circling me, and I was finding it really, really difficult to think of anything good, I said to myself that I really needed a way to focus on the positive somehow. So I came home from work one night, and I logged onto the computer, and I started up a tiny website called 1000awesomethings.com. I was trying to remind myself of the simple, universal, little pleasures that we all love, but we just don’t talk about enough — things like waiters and waitresses who bring you free refills without asking, being the first table to get called up to the dinner buffet at a wedding, wearing warm underwear from just out of the dryer, or when cashiers open up a new check-out lane at the grocery store and you get to be first in line — even if you were last at the other line, swoop right in there.

04:25
(Laughter)

04:28
And slowly over time, I started putting myself in a better mood. I mean, 50,000 blogs are started a day, and so my blog was just one of those 50,000. And nobody read it except for my mom. Although I should say that my traffic did skyrocket and go up by 100 percent when she forwarded it to my dad. (Laughter) And then I got excited when it started getting tens of hits, and then I started getting excited when it started getting dozens and then hundreds and then thousands and then millions. It started getting bigger and bigger and bigger. And then I got a phone call, and the voice at the other end of the line said, “You’ve just won the Best Blog In the World award.” I was like, that sounds totally fake. (Laughter) (Applause) Which African country do you want me to wire all my money to? (Laughter) But it turns out, I jumped on a plane, and I ended up walking a red carpet between Sarah Silverman and Jimmy Fallon and Martha Stewart. And I went onstage to accept a Webby award for Best Blog. And the surprise and just the amazement of that was only overshadowed by my return to Toronto, when, in my inbox, 10 literary agents were waiting for me to talk about putting this into a book. Flash-forward to the next year and “The Book of Awesome” has now been number one on the bestseller list for 20 straight weeks.

06:01
(Applause)

06:09
But look, I said I wanted to do three things with you today. I said I wanted to tell you the Awesome story, I wanted to share with you the three As of Awesome, and I wanted to leave you with a closing thought. So let’s talk about those three As. Over the last few years, I haven’t had that much time to really think. But lately I have had the opportunity to take a step back and ask myself: “What is it over the last few years that helped me grow my website, but also grow myself?” And I’ve summarized those things, for me personally, as three As. They are Attitude, Awareness and Authenticity. I’d love to just talk about each one briefly.

06:46
So Attitude: Look, we’re all going to get lumps, and we’re all going to get bumps. None of us can predict the future, but we do know one thing about it and that’s that it ain’t gonna go according to plan. We will all have high highs and big days and proud moments of smiles on graduation stages, father-daughter dances at weddings and healthy babies screeching in the delivery room, but between those high highs, we may also have some lumps and some bumps too. It’s sad, and it’s not pleasant to talk about, but your husband might leave you, your girlfriend could cheat, your headaches might be more serious than you thought, or your dog could get hit by a car on the street. It’s not a happy thought, but your kids could get mixed up in gangs or bad scenes. Your mom could get cancer, your dad could get mean. And there are times in life when you will be tossed in the well, too, with twists in your stomach and with holes in your heart, and when that bad news washes over you, and when that pain sponges and soaks in, I just really hope you feel like you’ve always got two choices. One, you can swirl and twirl and gloom and doom forever, or two, you can grieve and then face the future with newly sober eyes. Having a great attitude is about choosing option number two, and choosing, no matter how difficult it is, no matter what pain hits you, choosing to move forward and move on and take baby steps into the future.

08:19
The second “A” is Awareness. I love hanging out with three year-olds. I love the way that they see the world, because they’re seeing the world for the first time. I love the way that they can stare at a bug crossing the sidewalk. I love the way that they’ll stare slack-jawed at their first baseball game with wide eyes and a mitt on their hand, soaking in the crack of the bat and the crunch of the peanuts and the smell of the hot dogs. I love the way that they’ll spend hours picking dandelions in the backyard and putting them into a nice center piece for Thanksgiving dinner. I love the way that they see the world, because they’re seeing the world for the first time. Having a sense of awareness is just about embracing your inner three year-old. Because you all used to be three years old. That three-year-old boy is still part of you. That three-year-old girl is still part of you. They’re in there. And being aware is just about remembering that you saw everything you’ve seen for the first time once, too. So there was a time when it was your first time ever hitting a string of green lights on the way home from work. There was the first time you walked by the open door of a bakery and smelt the bakery air, or the first time you pulled a 20-dollar bill out of your old jacket pocket and said, “Found money.”

09:34
The last “A” is Authenticity. And for this one, I want to tell you a quick story. Let’s go all the way back to 1932 when, on a peanut farm in Georgia, a little baby boy named Roosevelt Grier was born. Roosevelt Grier, or Rosey Grier, as people used to call him, grew up and grew into a 300-pound, six-foot-five linebacker in the NFL. He’s number 76 in the picture. Here he is pictured with the “fearsome foursome.” These were four guys on the L.A. Rams in the 1960s you did not want to go up against. They were tough football players doing what they love, which was crushing skulls and separating shoulders on the football field. But Rosey Grier also had another passion. In his deeply authentic self, he also loved needlepoint. (Laughter) He loved knitting. He said that it calmed him down, it relaxed him, it took away his fear of flying and helped him meet chicks. That’s what he said. I mean, he loved it so much that, after he retired from the NFL, he started joining clubs. And he even put out a book called “Rosey Grier’s Needlepoint for Men.” (Laughter) (Applause) It’s a great cover. If you notice, he’s actually needlepointing his own face.

10:55
(Laughter)

10:57
And so what I love about this story is that Rosey Grier is just such an authentic person, and that’s what authenticity is all about. It’s just about being you and being cool with that. And I think when you’re authentic, you end up following your heart, and you put yourself in places and situations and in conversations that you love and that you enjoy. You meet people that you like talking to. You go places you’ve dreamt about. And you end you end up following your heart and feeling very fulfilled.

So those are the three A’s.

11:31
For the closing thought, I want to take you all the way back to my parents coming to Canada. I don’t know what it would feel like coming to a new country when you’re in your mid-20’s. I don’t know, because I never did it, but I would imagine that it would take a great attitude. I would imagine that you’d have to be pretty aware of your surroundings and appreciating the small wonders that you’re starting to see in your new world. And I think you’d have to be really authentic, you’d have to be really true to yourself in order to get through what you’re being exposed to.

12:02
I’d like to pause my TEDTalk for about 10 seconds right now, because you don’t get many opportunities in life to do something like this, and my parents are sitting in the front row. So I wanted to ask them to, if they don’t mind, stand up. And I just wanted to say thank you to you guys.

12:14
(Applause)

12:33
When I was growing up, my dad used to love telling the story of his first day in Canada. And it’s a great story, because what happened was he got off the plane at the Toronto airport, and he was welcomed by a non-profit group, which I’m sure someone in this room runs. (Laughter) And this non-profit group had a big welcoming lunch for all the new immigrants to Canada. And my dad says he got off the plane and he went to this lunch and there was this huge spread. There was bread, there was those little, mini dill pickles, there was olives, those little white onions. There was rolled up turkey cold cuts, rolled up ham cold cuts, rolled up roast beef cold cuts and little cubes of cheese. There was tuna salad sandwiches and egg salad sandwiches and salmon salad sandwiches. There was lasagna, there was casseroles, there was brownies, there was butter tarts, and there was pies, lots and lots of pies. And when my dad tells the story, he says, “The craziest thing was, I’d never seen any of that before, except bread. (Laughter) I didn’t know what was meat, what was vegetarian. I was eating olives with pie. (Laughter) I just couldn’t believe how many things you can get here.”

13:43
(Laughter)

13:45
When I was five years old, my dad used to take me grocery shopping, and he would stare in wonder at the little stickers that are on the fruits and vegetables. He would say, “Look, can you believe they have a mango here from Mexico? They’ve got an apple here from South Africa. Can you believe they’ve got a date from Morocco?” He’s like, “Do you know where Morocco even is?” And I’d say, “I’m five. I don’t even know where I am. Is this A&P?” And he’d say, “I don’t know where Morocco is either, but let’s find out.” And so we’d buy the date, and we’d go home. And we’d actually take an atlas off the shelf, and we’d flip through until we found this mysterious country. And when we did, my dad would say, “Can you believe someone climbed a tree over there, picked this thing off it, put it in a truck, drove it all the way to the docks and then sailed it all the way across the Atlantic Ocean and then put it in another truck and drove that all the way to a tiny grocery store just outside our house, so they could sell it to us for 25 cents?” And I’d say, “I don’t believe that.” And he’s like, “I don’t believe it either. Things are amazing. There’s just so many things to be happy about.”

14:50
When I stop to think about it, he’s absolutely right. There are so many things to be happy about. We are the only species on the only life-giving rock in the entire universe that we’ve ever seen, capable of experiencing so many of these things. I mean, we’re the only ones with architecture and agriculture. We’re the only ones with jewelry and democracy. We’ve got airplanes, highway lanes, interior design and horoscope signs. We’ve got fashion magazines, house party scenes. You can watch a horror movie with monsters. You can go to a concert and hear guitars jamming. We’ve got books, buffets and radio waves, wedding brides and rollercoaster rides. You can sleep in clean sheets. You can go to the movies and get good seats. You can smell bakery air, walk around with rain hair, pop bubble wrap or take an illegal nap.

15:40
We’ve got all that, but we’ve only got 100 years to enjoy it. And that’s the sad part. The cashiers at your grocery store, the foreman at your plant, the guy tailgating you home on the highway, the telemarketer calling you during dinner, every teacher you’ve ever had, everyone that’s ever woken up beside you, every politician in every country, every actor in every movie, every single person in your family, everyone you love, everyone in this room and you will be dead in a hundred years. Life is so great that we only get such a short time to experience and enjoy all those tiny little moments that make it so sweet. And that moment is right now, and those moments are counting down, and those moments are always, always, always fleeting.

“You will never be as young as you are right now. And that’s why I believe that if you live your life with a great attitude, choosing to move forward and move on whenever life deals you a blow, living with a sense of awareness of the world around you, embracing your inner three year-old and seeing the tiny joys that make life so sweet and being authentic to yourself, being you and being cool with that, letting your heart lead you and putting yourself in experiences that satisfy you, then I think you’ll live a life that is rich and is satisfying, and I think you’ll live a life that is truly awesome.”

17:12
Thank you.

We don’t know about you but we had to STOP and THINK about all those things Neil talked about and realise we should NEVER take life for granted

“Life is so great that we only get such a short time to experience and enjoy all those tiny little moments that make it so sweet. And that moment is right now, and those moments are counting down, and those moments are always, always, always fleeting.“

Recources :

1000Awesomethings.com

The Book Of Awesome

You Are Awesome – How to Navigate Change, Wrestle with Failure, and Live an Intentional Life

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