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Personal Development For Adventurous Living
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Risingbean.com is a personal development site for the adventurous spirit. Whether you wish to go vagabonding around the world or live your life with complete clarity and purpose, I want to inspire you to take those necessary actions to help get you there.
Life is too short to live in mediocrity and play small. There are choices available and plenty of opportunities once you open yourself to them. When you reach the end of your life, do you want to look back and see it full of great relationships, fantastic memories, incredible experiences, and full of abundance? Let's make now the time to create that life.
Recent Posts
The Sunscreen Song – My 10 Year Tribute (Everybody’s Free)
I’ve been sidetracked on my other projects because I really wanted to put this video out there before the year end. I’m really happy to have the freedom to work on a creative project with no real purpose other than to put some good ene...
Children As Teachers
Continuing on my thoughts on the “Children Full of Life” series, I thought about how I consider my son to be a great teacher after watching the above clip (part 3). Children see things differently, and it’s important to treat them...
Children Full Of Life And Real Schooling
This video series on how Japanese kids are taught compassion sparked a thought. A good friend of mine and mentor, George, often discusses with me his vision of what schools should be like. He tells me that they should go beyond the formal insti...
A Week Of Adventurous Living
This is the text of my speech I delivered a few weeks ago as the meeting’s Toastmaster. Last week during table topics, I recanted a story about rock climbing at night in Mexico that led to my choice of today’s theme: Adventure. Although t...
Give Up The News Now! (Part 1)
News Keeps You Informed, Right? When I was a little tike, my dad thought the same thing, and he introduced me to the daily newspaper. I began with the comics (minus Doonesbury because I didn’t understand the humor) and the front page. Soon I ...
Don’t Just Sit There! Tips For Better Meditation
In my previous article on meditation, I introduced the benefits of meditating. In this article, I’ll offer some tips on getting on the meditation track. When I first started doing meditation, I couldn’t believe how difficult it was to st...

