Project Hitchhiker | travels, stories and adventures in lifestyle design
welcome to my blog
Project Hitchhiker is the online creative outlet of Mike H.
Mike’s adventures have taken him across 3 continents, including driving a motorcycle for 6 months across Southeast Asia, hitchhiking across Canada and Japan, and walking 1000 miles along the coastline of Nova Scotia.
Mike’s passions are music, travel and motorcycles (in that order).
Mike’s dislikes include writing about himself in the third person.
This site is a collection of his travels, stories and adventures in lifestyle design.
After a long hiatus, I’m getting back into music. Playing, writing, creating.
The other day, sitting down with the guitar and playing for a few hours, I realized that I NEED to play music. That music needs to be a bigger part in my life than what it’s been in the last few years. Another realization: I’m not content now just playing established songs — I want to create. I sat down for a few hours tonight writing and felt really great. I think what I’d forgotten in the last few yeras was that creating and playing music is at least a small part of my major definite purpose.
February is my month of French in the Power of Less Challenge. I committed to studying French at least 30 mins per day for the month. This goal in particular, is really important to me, as I want to come away from this job with a working ability in French.
But first, a quick thought about the language learning tools I’ve chosen. I recently had a discussion with a friend about why I gave up using Rosetta Stone for learning languages. My reasons for stopping have to do with effeciency and adherance.
I came across this video, and could not, not share this with my readers/friends. (This is from a guy who absolutely hates those motivational email forwards, so trust me, it’s something).
The video is of professor Randy Pausch’s last lecture at Carnegie Mellon before his death from pancreatic cancer in 2008. The lecture is entitled Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams and the runtime is 1 hour 16 mins — I PROMISE it’s worth your time (at the very least to see a top notch public speaker at his best).
Hope you enjoy the video. If you feel in the mood for more potentially inspirational/life changing talks, TED.com is a great place to start (a long-time favorite of mine) or check out the list and comments on this post at ZenHabits.com (where I found the above video).
Have a favorite inspirational/motivational video? Share it in the comments below.
