How do I put myself in the driver's seat of my own life?

Out There

Willow Belden

Wilderness, Sports, Nature, Science

4.6 • 608 Ratings

🗓️ 30 August 2018

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of our advice segment, Dear Nature, we respond to a question from a listener called Feeling Stuck, who is struggling to find motivation and passion.

"I’ve never been very adventurous or a go getter," Feeling Stuck writes, "and I have often wondered if those qualities, which I admire, are just inherent to some people and not others, or if there is a way for me to gain those qualities too."

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Willow Belden.
0:08.0	I'm Becky Jensen.
0:09.0	And I'm Angus Chen.
0:10.0	You're listening to Out There, the podcast that explores big questions through intimate stories in the outdoors.
0:16.0	This is our advice segment, Dear Nature, where we use wisdom from the outdoors to help sort out your most pressing personal questions.
0:29.6	So before we get started today, I have a favor to ask.
0:33.6	We're deciding whether or not to keep producing dear nature, and we would like your input.
0:39.8	We put together a brief survey where you can tell us what you think about the segment.
0:44.0	You can find the survey at our website, out therepodcast.com.
0:48.0	It'll only take you about a minute to fill out, and when you complete it, we'll enter you into a drawing for some sweet out there swag.
0:55.0	Again, that's at out there podcast.com.
1:02.0	Okay, so on to business. Becky, Angus, what's new in your lives?
1:10.6	Not too much, I guess. I'm trying to plan a bunch of trips.
1:14.5	I'm going to be... It looks like I'm going to be traveling a lot this fall.
1:18.0	My friends and I and my brother and I are trying to go to Cabo, Mexico, maybe next month for a little bit.
1:29.2	And then I'm booking some tickets, or I just booked some tickets to go to California.
1:39.8	My brother and I and some of our friends are going to go to the big sur and camp there and surf some of the little hidden surf breaks around the park.
1:52.7	Sounds lovely.
1:54.2	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
1:55.1	And, you know, just work as usual, same boring stuff as everyone else.
2:00.0	What about you?
2:01.8	Oh, I'm going to go.
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