You’ve committed to making your new venture work. You are determined to fund the project, the hype is building and you are starting to see your once crazy business idea as a viable opportunity. After 6 months, the endless amount of hours are probably starting to wear on you, and the last time you sat down to eat a real meal was 2011. You need to find a…
If your goal is to live a boring life and be like everyone else, you are probably well on your way. However, if your life goal is to make your own decisions and live on your own terms; look at what the masses are doing, then start doing the opposite. Changing your life isn’t difficult. These 25 straightforward ways to live differently are small changes that result in a…
“Every experience develops some latent force within you; you will grow vigorous and happy, however adverse your circumstances may seem to be.” ~John Heywood This Wednesday, June 12, 2013 is the official Under30Experiences Launch Party in New York City and more than just a party, this is going to be an experience. You will get to witness firsthand how it feels to be around positive, like-minded young people and what Under30Experiences…
#BeastMode: How to Have More Energy Than Ever
by / ⠀Entrepreneurship• Health & Fitness• Travel / June 5, 2013#BeastMode You may have heard the expression coined by NFL Running Back Marshawn Lynch, but do you really have what it takes to go beast mode? How do we get that extra energy to take us to the next level? And more importantly, what do we do with it once we have it, to see the results we want? Here are 6 places you should be getting your…
“A man practices the art of adventure when he breaks the chain of routine and renews his life through reading new books, traveling to new places, making new friends, taking up new hobbies, and adopting new viewpoints.” -Wilfred Peterson Moving to Miami, Florida in 2008 was probably the biggest move and sacrifice I have made so far in my life because I had to leave behind my family,…
“One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” – Henry Miller It never ceases to amaze me how much I learn when I travel. I have been lucky enough to go on a few international trips, and each time I return home I feel like a new part of me has been awakened. Travel sparks an insatiable desire in me to contribute to…
Do You Have a LOFA Problem? (Lack of F*cking Adventure)
by / ⠀Entrepreneurship• Travel / May 28, 2013This Memorial Day I woke up feeling strange here in the States. I had no energy and the rainy 45 degree weekend must have had me down. I spent a quiet weekend in the suburbs on the couch, catching up on work… Answering a few hundred emails…. Yawn. Then the weather broke. Yet I still couldn’t quite snap out of the funk. I had no creativity and I…
At the age of 27, I’ve lived, studied and worked in nine countries, many of which were in a state of conflict or just beginning to recover from it. In Rwanda I once wandered the halls of a hospital looking for a Congolese warlord because I got a tip he was receiving treatment for HIV, and in the Democratic Republic of Congo I spent days listening to horrific…
An Open Letter to Frustrated Entrepreneurs (A Response)
by / ⠀Entrepreneurship• Travel / May 22, 2013Last week Daniel DiPiazza wrote “An Open Letter to Frustrated 20 Somethings” on Under30CEO. It blew up. The article had over 100 comments on the first day. Daniel’s premise: If it was up to him, why would he make a “job” or “work” the center of his life? When someone asks him “what he does”, why should he have to respond and narrowly define himself by the skills…
Everyday at Under30CEO we try to help young people get what they really want out of life. For some it’s money, power, and fame, for others it’s time to spend with friends and family, still others embrace the journey and continue to search for what happiness might mean to them… Last week my friend Marcella Chamorro who joined us in her home country of Nicaragua for our Under30Experiences…