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Optimal Living Daily - Personal Development and Self-Improvement

1251: 7 Life Lessons My 1-Year-Old Taught Me While Backpacking Abroad by Adam Baker with ChrisGuillebeau.com

Optimal Living Daily - Personal Development and Self-Improvement

Optimal Living Daily LLC

Education, Mental Health, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness

4.63.2K Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2019

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Adam Baker with ChrisGuillebeau.com shares 7 life lessons his 1-year-old taught him while backpacking abroad. Episode 1251: 7 Life Lessons My 1-Year-Old Taught Me While Backpacking Abroad by Adam Baker with ChrisGuillebeau.com Chris Guillebeau is a New York Times bestselling author and modern-day explorer. He is the author of 5 books and his daily podcast, Side Hustle School, is downloaded more than 2 million times a month. Every summer in Portland, Oregon, Chris hosts the World Domination Summit, a gathering of creative, remarkable people with thousands in attendance. Chris is also the founder of Pioneer Nation, Unconventional Guides, the Travel Hacking Cartel, and numerous other projects. During a lifetime of self-employment that included a four-year commitment as a volunteer executive in West Africa, he visited every country in the world (193 in total) before his 35th birthday. The original post is located here: https://chrisguillebeau.com/life-lessons-my-1-year-old-taught-me-while-backpacking-abroad/ Visit Me Online at OLDPodcast.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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This is Optimal Living Daily Episode 1251.

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Seven life lessons my one-year-old taught me while backpacking abroad by Adam Baker with ChrisKillabo.com.

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And I'm Justin Malik, your personal narrator, reading blogs to you mostly, sometimes books.

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Anything that I think will help you optimize your life.

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Today's post being from a guest writer on ChrisKillabo's site.

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I'll get right to it as we optimize your life.

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Seven life lessons my one-year-old taught me while backpacking abroad by Adam Baker with ChrisKillabo.com.

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14 months ago my wife and I were destined for conformity.

1:41.0

Cornie had just graduated college and I was starting to see some early success in small business in real estate.

1:47.0

We just celebrated our first wedding anniversary and we were looking forward to the birth of our first child.

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We had begun looking for potential homes complete with a wraparound porch and a white picket fence.

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Soon we'd be just 1.5 kids, a minivan and a oversized mortgage away from true bliss.

2:04.0

I'm fairly sure the physical process of childbirth is God's way of smacking us all across the face.

2:09.0

Welcoming a sweaty bundle of joy into the world is nothing short of a miracle.

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