IKHO 108: Does This Year Matter? Then Use It. | Alastair Humphreys, The Doorstep Mile

The 1000 Hours Outside Podcast

Ginny Yurich

Parenting, Kids & Family

4.9 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 1 January 2023

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Of all those who are releasing podcast episodes on January 1st, this one has to be up there on the motivational scale. Alastair's book The Doorstep Mile is all about getting started. Go after your silly daydream. Make the most of your opportunities instead of looking for excuses. Leave the dishes and go climb a tree with your child. Try to magine being an old man or woman and looking back on your life. Embracing new things and exposing your own personal vulnerabilities is risky, but having an empty life is risky too. Let's be a society that applauds endeavor, that embraces the amateur. Do this year matter? Then use it. Alastair Humphreys is a National Geographic Adventurer of the Year as well as an author, photographer, videographer, speaker, and more! This is his third time on our podcast and he says the 1000 Hours Outside community is the most cheerful audience. If you haven't listened yet, make sure you listen to episodes 43 and 84 as well! Learn more about Alastair here >> https://alastairhumphreys.com/ His YouTube channel is here >> https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKsTMxQP7HUCRTuNEEQWLww Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Here we go. Welcome to the 1000 Hours Outside Podcast. We've done this a bunch of times haven't we Alistair?
0:06.0	We have. I've come to really enjoy our chats now. It's great. I feel like we're old friends that we've only ever met on Zoom.
0:12.0	And there's so many more books.
0:15.0	So my hope is that this continues to dot the landscape of my life
0:19.0	because I love these conversations.
0:21.0	You're an English adventurer and author who finds it weird to write about himself in third person.
0:26.0	This is great. This is from your book, The Doorstep Mile.
0:29.0	Live more adventurously every day, one of many fantastic books and all of these accomplishments but then you
0:36.1	have this amazing ability to break it down for the everyday person to fit more
0:41.3	adventure into their life. So thanks for joining us.
0:44.0	Well, thanks for having me. Yeah, I've been for years and years now I've been doing big
0:48.3	adventures and then small adventures and increasingly trying to use my small micro adventures to encourage people to get outside and have small local adventures.
0:57.0	So when I heard about a thousand hours outside, I was like, boom, I need to get in touch here, so I sent you an email and we've been chatting since then.
1:05.1	That's been fantastic and your podcast have been the favorite. People write in about them all the time.
1:10.5	In fact I had an all call for people if they wanted to join the
1:14.3	podcast and talk about things that they learned from the podcast and maybe lifestyle
1:18.9	choices that they made and so many people wrote in about you and how influential you were in their lives.
1:25.2	And so I'm so thrilled to have you back.
1:27.6	Really, truly, thank you for being here.
1:29.6	I love seeing your shed.
1:31.2	Yes, well, yeah, we've both got a good shed, haven't we? in your
1:35.0	audience is in your shed.
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