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THE MAD TO LIVE IS:
- OPTIMAL LIVING: How I am and how you can turn your life and your pursuits be it in travel, business, or the day-to-day into a quest-like, inspiring, FUN, lesson-filled adventure.
- ENTREPRENEURSHIP & PROJECT CREATION: How I am and how you can turn your life and your pursuits be it in travel, business, or the day-to-day into a quest-like, inspiring, FUN, lesson-filled adventure.
- WORLD TRAVEL | LOCAL ADVENTURE How I am and how you can turn your life and your pursuits be it in travel, business, or the day-to-day into a quest-like, inspiring, FUN, lesson-filled adventure.
- CREATING CHANGE How I am and how you can turn your life and your pursuits be it in travel, business, or the day-to-day into a quest-like, inspiring, FUN, lesson-filled adventure.
- RESOURCE: Step-by-Step Guides on on travel, entrepreneurship, blogging, and even a few instruction manuals for living the good life.
- TRAVEL STORIES:
THE MAD TO LIVE IS NOT:
- A blog that does nothing but add to the noise
- A place where you’ll find myself or others preaching but not practicing
- A place where excuses are handed out or accepted
- A hub for sales pitches, affiliate marketing, and all that other crap
- For people who aren’t rediculously turned on by adventurer & exploring
- For people who don’t define themselves as passion project addicts
- For assholes, bums, narcissists, or those only interested in $
- For people who don’t have that drive to make the world a better place however they best can.
- For people who don’t want to live their best life
- For people who aren’t willing to laugh at themselves or the ridiculousness that life can be
- For people that are, in fact, not MAD TO LIVE.
THE BEST OF THE MAD TO LIVE (so far!)
Project Announcements:
I’m a PROJECT ADDICT! It’s the serial-preneur in me. When a new project comes up you’ll not just find out first about it, but have an opportunity to take part in it, share your insights, ask questions, and a learn from its successes and failures.
Resource-Driven Posts:
Over my years of business, blogging and travel I’ve picked up a lot of knowledge in terms of how-to-do and how-not-to-do. The point of these posts is to get you past the learning curve even faster!!
Blogging / Entrepreneurship Resources:
- Starting a Podcast: Step-By-Step Guide to Creating an Interview Podcast to Grow Your Blog, Business, and Self
- 10 Resources I Tell All My Blog Consulting Clients to help them Brand Themselves
Travel / Digital Nomad Resources:
- How To Get Yourself and Your Blog Sponsored in 4 Very Detailed Steps (i.e. Free Trips, Free Gear, and more!)
- The Latest and Greatest Travel Industry Buzzword: MICRO-TRAVELING
Personal Travel & Life Stories, Challenges, Experiments:
These are posts that tell basically tell the story of my life. They are the musings, lessons, and sightings. I try to be as REAL and MYSELF as I can be here – you’ll read about both the bad and the good.
- An Anti Lazy P.O.S. Lifestyle Design Travel Story
- Telling My Untold Story: Aspirations and Hiding Behind the Curtain
Interviews, Podcasts, Q&As, Features with Do-Big Things People, Orgs & Cos.
Inspiring Anecdotes and Pieces of Wisdom:
- The 10 Must-Do’s to Live an Inspired and Inspiring Life
- The 10 LAWS You Must Never Break In Order To Avoid Changing The World
Quarterly Blog, Business, & Life Breakdown Reviews:
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Meet Laur
Hi, I'm Lauren Rains. Welcome to The Mad to Live. I'm the co-founder of Outdoor Minded Magazine and someone highly addicted to turning everything I do into some sort of a project. What you’ll find here are stories from the road based on adventures – both going on them, and learning from them – in the various pursuits of life, entrepreneurship, travel and making a positive impact on this world. Thanks for being here! Do come in and relax for awhile.