Treat yourself to a microadventure

Being stuck indoors from 9-5 doesn’t have to define your life. If you catch yourself in a boring routine, make time and head out on a microadventure to liven things up.

Alastair Humphreys is the National Geographic Adventurer of the year in 2012. He has accomplished liberating adventures like walking across India, cycling around the world, and rowing the Atlantic. But these are all great feats, Alistair knew if he wanted to inspire and reach out to more people he needed adventures to be more accessible for an average 9-5 Joe. He then created shorter adventures, ‘Microadventures’, describing them as, “a shot of espresso, you get the taste, you get the effect, maximum impact in the short condensed burst of adventure”.

Alistar Humphreys is inspiring more people every day with his motivational speeches, his full of life persona, his own adventures, and his amazon best seller book “Microadventures – Local Discoveries for Great Escapes”.

Microadventures could last a weekend, a day or even an hour. But the key is to do something you want to do or do something simply different. It could be:

• A new activity you’ve been dying to try (for example an archery class, a painting class or pottery).

• A new place you haven’t been to before (for example museums, cafes or a random suburb) or revisiting an oldie but goodie place.

• It can even be meeting new people you’ve met online who love doing what you do (for example photography club, biking or hiking).

The options are limitless! In Alistar’s book, he shares 38 different stories of his own microadventures. The easiest one you could start with is “A Journey Around Your Home”. This microadventure is about going two miles out and walking a circle back to your home. Don’t say you have seen all there is to see just because you have driven past it, you could be pleasantly surprised. By going on a walk you can connect more deeply with your to your local area, both, to nature and with people. Discover cafe’s, stores, interesting homes, quirky front yards and maybe even say hi some friendly faces. You could also use this microadvenutre to improve your photography or selfies by snapping unique things that catch your eye.

Here are some tips to get you started:

1. Approach adventures as a state of mind or as a part of your spirit

2. Scout out an easily accessible location

3. Try camping in your backyard

4. Breath in sunrise ANYWHERE

5. Pack up your essentials before work (early morning adventures or even an overnight adventure)

Further, here are 3 picturesque microadventures near Brisbane:

1. Spend an evening climbing pyramids at the Girraween National Park in Southern Queensland.

2. Spend an afternoon snorkelling and swimming the Fairy Pools in the Sunshine Coast.

3. Spend a picnic morning under or near a waterfall in Lamington National Park. (Chalahn, Box log, Elabana or Moran waterfalls)

For more information please visit:

Microadventure:

<http://www.travelettes.net/find-happiness-with-microadventures/>

<www.alastairhumphreys.com/introduction-microadventures-short-video/>

3 Microadvenures near Brisbane:

<https://inspiredadventures.com.au/microadventure-2-climbing-the-pyramid/>

<http://www.wildswimmingaustralia.com/locations/fairy-pools-noosa-queensland-australia/>

<http://www.visitbrisbane.com.au/information/articles/nature/waterfalls-and-lakes-near-brisbane?sc_lang=en-au>