You get on your bike and cycle through as many communities in the USA and Canada as possible spreading the kind-word! Yes, he has done it again: Brock Tully a.k.a, the Brock-Star has embarked on another life-changing, road-grinding 18,000 km, 9 month solo journey to change the world!
Brock’s mission is titled, KINDNESS…Cycle it Forward, and he is working to raise awareness for a kinder world.
His mission is to:
To create a Culture of Kindness that inspires each of us to be kind and to
become the change we wish to see in the world.
Certainly Brock is doing this one pedal push and kind word at a time. Brock, is a veritable Ghandi – a man who has given his life in pursuit of spreading the simple but power message of kindness.
I may not be able to change the world I see around me but I can change the way I see the world, within me.
- Brock Tully
When ever I think of Brock, for some strange, tangential reason I remember the I want to be like Mike commercials. I can’t help but think what humans could do if they could just Be like Brock!
5 top ways to be like Brock
Grow an incredible mustache!
Live you message: get off the couch, away from the computer (yes me!) and out into the world to help!
Be well, make sure you make ample time for your health. Brock’s journey is a testimant to his commitment to his own physical wellness.
Get outside, run, cycle, hike or plain walk your walk your way to a kinder world. Each moment you spend outside and out of your car will be a moment not wasted!
Take risk: Brock is always ready to drop everything for a cause he believes in! How many of us can say the same?
If you want to see Brock in action watch this powerful video compilation.
Want to have Brock rock your next presentation? Visit his website: www.brocktully.com
Leading psychologists and experts often state the importance of having strong healthy relationships to experience a healthy and happy lifestyle. More then wealth, success or circumstance, happiness and health will be largely a result of the people we choose to spend time with.
The rankings of which people primed happiness: page 312, Social Intelligence, Daniel Goleman.
(In order of importance)
Friends
Relatives
Spouse or partner
Children
Clients or customers
Coworkers
Boss
Being alone
A B-rad Exercise / Tool for being Happy:
Write Down The Top Ten People You Connect With. Briefly describe how they help you connect to Health and Happiness.
Your goal with this tool is to optimize your time spent with these people and focus on constantly nourishing these relationships. You should write, talk or see each of your top 5 at least once a week.
In my search to understand how better to use the internet as both and educational and proactive medium, I stumbled upon an another profound presentation series called tries to bring together people and inspire them to go do something!
The Do Lectures is an antidote to the collective apathy of our generation and another bold step to providing information to get people off the couch and out connecting with people and nature. Speakers at the gathering offered tools and insights into how they take action in their own life. Lifestyle design expert Timothy Ferris of the The Four Hour Work Week presented, along with ever-intriguing Yun Hider, a professional forager, who in his own words has spent the last thirteen years foraging.
In his talk he shares simple strategies to help people reconnect to the land and use local plant to provide sustenance. Yun is a connector par-excellence and he pulls at the sense of the audience, giving them a chance to taste his foraged foods. Audience members immediately are able to experience the culinary potential of their back woods!
Yun praises the art of pausing in nature. He explains how foraging takes time and this helps to forge a new relationship to the land. His simple tools include guide books, medicinal books, wild food books which he is constantly refers to on his sojourns.
Yun currently has a few projects including Mountain Food a business which distributes foraged food Mountain Food and another, titled Precious Planet. Precious planet is a: non profit-making organisation committed to preserving areas of vital biodiversity. In order to do this, Precious Planet carries out specific projects aimed at protecting and regenerating marine and terrestrial biodiversity.
Our Precious Planet project is based on a simple concept of connecting students and linking schools by having students map out their local environment to help them understand the natural environment and their impact on this space.
Mapping their local Area: people, plants and pollution.
Calculate their ecological footprint.
Plant a tree.
My big do inspired from the conference, include:
to connect my local school with the Precious Planet project
spend time looking over guidebooks before and during my time in nature
research what I can start to forage for food in my local environment
connect with the Do conference as a participant or speaker.
What you can do:
Stage your own Do it Lecture Series.
Take the ideas from their lectures and spread them through action or in the form of stories.
Do it: think of your own small ways to take action.
Everyone knows they should take action, the smaller and more manageable the better to begin with. Once you feel with the small stuff, you won’t sweat the big actions in your life.
When they are depressed, many people withdraw, pull the shades, twist into a cocoon, and stop seeing their friends. This is the worst possible thing to do. - Alan loy McGinnis The Power of Optimism
I absolutely loved finding this book hidden away in the public library downtown Victoria BC.
I have personally noticed that many people, friends, family and co-workers, have withdrawn or tried to isolate themselves, when emotionally or physically injured.
When I was younger and got hurt I would try to isolate myself and instead of healing I would instead nurse my pain, hurt, fear or anger. Luckily for me I quickly discovered that spending time with my friends was the cure all for any injury.
But the only reason I was able to access this was because my friends would not take no for an answer. When I walked with a cane for almost two years Chris and Erik would force me to go on hikes with them, where they would even take turns carrying me over the rough terrain. When my mother died, my friends were all in the room with me and a few weeks later forced me onto a plane headed to Mexico and surfing adventures.
These solid friendships allowed me to feel constantly connected to love and life’s laughter. You can always find a way to heal if you are laughing and feeling connected to the world and people around you. SO if you have a friend who is trying to hide away, go drag them out into the sun!
Connection Exercise:
Jump up and down and try to be angry or sad. It is hard to do. Think about when you tell a tearful child to smile and they instantly stop crying. You have the ability to take control of your level of optimism. Just jump.
