Life By Design

Written By Marlon J

Ayo, Marlon, should we go back and join everyone else?

Generally, at least in my experiences, sure isn’t the first thing that comes to mind at a house-party. May have even be new-years eve, beats me.

However, these two hooligans were wildly chatting while a party went on behind us, taken a back as two worlds collide.

A defining moment in what now is a weekly call to talk about everything (C-HER) Creative, Health, Education, and Relationship related.

Life by design that we’ve coined C-HER. Creative. Health. Education. Relationships.

We’ll get into it more below, hold your damn horses people.

At the time I was somewhere between living in a propane run van, pictured and one of the following jobs:

  • Rockies Tour Guide

  • Server at a restaurant

  • Line cook in a food truck

  • Street Sales for Doctors Without Borders

  • Volunteering for Talk a Hike (At Risk Youth)

Don’t ask to re-cap that section of my life without a phat lasagne and ginger beer ready for me haha.

*** I may do a one-time re-cap when I get citizenship

The idea behind C-HER is to build a framework that we can continue to build on and reflect on as life evolves, together. As prompts to minimize blindspots, risk, boredom, and as a holistic blueprint for how we want to live life.

I’m going to give a low-down of C-HER with the idea that I’ll use it as a framework for sharing updates and content in the future. For example, a kayak trip will fall under Education, exploring new areas or learning new skills; Relationships, the people that choose to co-create adventures together and relational aspects this entails; and health, endurance or physicality of the adventure and what’s required of my body and prep.


Creative

Health, live long and prosper

Areas: Universality, longevity, mentality

  • Diet

  • Sleep

  • Aerobic

  • Anaerobic

  • Supplements

  • Mental Health

  • Habits / Addictions

Education, always be learning

  • Time, skills that unlock more time

  • Utility, skills you need to achieve your goals

  • Neatness, things that propel you to learn them

Relationships, be a dream team

Areas: Self, Partner, Family, Friends, Colleagues, Strangers

  • Goals, reach goals together

  • Joy, bring joy to each others lives

  • Trust, build record of trust and honesty

  • Communication, communicate effectively

Marlon J
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