Chasing The Blue Beyond

Watt? A Learning Journey — Alan Watts × Ed Reif Watt? A Learning Journey — Alan Watts × Ed Reif Twenty quotes. Twenty field notes. One practice: live the question with presence, play, and usefulness. Presence Flow Usefulness over applause Systems & Focus VIDEO Watch — Alan Watts Talk Expand All Collapse All Clear WATTS Change & Flow — join the dance "The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance." — Alan Watts Field note (Ed): Change isn't a riddle to solve; it's choreography to inhabit. Step in before you're ready. Try this Name one change you're resisting. Take a small step into it in ...

A Life Less Ordinary: Sarah, Ed & Skyelark's Fair Isle Journey 🏝️ A Life Less Ordinary: Sarah, Ed & Skyelark on Fair Isle Where pandemic uncertainty became extraordinary adventure on Britain's most remote inhabited island 🌊 Fair Isle: Life Less Ordinary 🌊 The journey to Britain's most remote inhabited island during the global pandemic. 🌍 When the World Retreated, They Advanced At the height of the global pandemic, while much of the world retreated into uncertainty, Sarah Kennedy and Ed Reif made a bold and unconventional choice: to leave behind the bustle of modern life and relocate to Fair Isle—Britain's most remote inhabited island, nestled between Orkney and Shetland. Drawn by the dream of a simpler, more connected life, and inspired by the television serie...

The Discipline of Execution - Ed Reif Skip to main content Ed Reif Authenticity Resilience Happiness Fire In The Belly Travel Books The Discipline of Execution Closing the Gap Between Intention and Action Vision without execution is hallucination. — Thomas Edison The Mirage of Planning Planning is the sugar high of self-improvement. You borrow confidence from the future without spending any in the present. On Crystal Serenity, I watched passengers sketch bucket lists between lectures—languages, diets, businesses, memoirs. On paper, their future selves glowed. But at the end of th...

The Arctic Circle: Sailing on Top of the World Western Norway and Hardangerfjord Posted by Hotel @nyware on June 29, 2015 “We shall not cease from exploration, / and the end of all our exploring / will be to arrive where we started / and know the place for the first time.” - T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land Reflections on Exploration Norway is Alaska with balls. At 20 years old — the "Old Age of Youth" — I could only accept this bold statement on blind faith, as I had yet to experience the truth behind the words. Home, as I saw it, was a place I wanted to leave as soon as possible, a place to escape in pursuit of new horizons. Why We Sail There is something deeply human about the impulse to explore, to break free from the familiar. This urge to sail away is ancient, persistent, and universal. Voyages trigger something called "psychological distance." The act of leaving familiar gro...