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Taking a class this weekend, Blissful learns about the key skills of a good teacher.

This was especially important when she needed to face down an irrational fear of falling out of her kayak and being upside down in the water.

Here are some of those skills:

1. Positive Learning Environment.
2. Encourage Risk Taking.
3. Provide Feedback and Guidance
4. Promote a Growth Mindset

Just wanting to get better and do something out of our comfort zone isn't enough. Sometimes we need guide who possessed strong leadership and teaching skills.

Blissful will give her first TEDx talk this October in Manchester, New Hampshire! The subject is "Stepping into the Unknown." Get tickets here. Use coupon code "WILD" for a discount!

MUSIC: Introduccion y Allegro by Carlos Guastavino as played by Alison Young, flute and Vicki Seldon, piano.

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On the Teton Crest Trail in Wyoming, Blissful decides to go for an "SKT" (Slowest Known Time) and surprises abound.

1. John Muir (and Henry David Thoreau) hated the word "hike" and preferred to saunter, entering beautiful natural places with reverence.

2. Physiologists tell us that walking at a turtle's pace releases endocannabinoids a kind of "persistence high" that elicits a state of euphoria.

3. But most important, going slow and leaving plenty of time allows us to simply exist and enjoy – explore off-trail, enjoy sights like a bull moose, pikas, and wildflowers, and nab the best campsites!

Blissful will give her first TEDx talk this October in Manchester, New Hampshire! The subject is "Stepping into the Unknown." Get tickets here. Use coupon code "WILD" for a discount!

MUSIC: Introduccion y Allegro by Carlos Guastavino as played by Alison Young, flute and Vicki Seldon, piano.

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On the Pyrenean Haute Route, an oafish American hiker questioned Blissful's ability to manage a route of this difficulty.

“Even YOU?” he asked, his lip curling in disdain. “I haven’t seen many old people hiking this.”

It shook her confidence, for sure, but here she was, backpacking while old.

We don’t tend to bounce back the way we did when we were younger.

That’s why we have to prioritize –

1:46 Rest
3:34 Nutrition
5:46 Exercise

– and in that order!

Blissful will give her first TEDx talk this October in Manchester, New Hampshire! The subject is "Stepping into the Unknown." Get tickets here.

MUSIC: Introduccion y Allegro by Carlos Guastavino as played by Alison Young, flute and Vicki Seldon, piano.

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