How More Life Adventures was born

Hi friends,

There was positive feedback to last Monday's email so today I'm sending you another founder story! For a business to start, a number of factors come into play, so there are many stories. But this was the kickstart. Feel free to reply and let me know what you'd like to hear more of.

The Kickstart

It was July 2018 and I was walking with my father in Zurich. He was walking slower than usual, his phone pictures were a little blurry, and his WhatsApp messages had typos in them. I found myself getting impatient, I just couldn’t understand how this super sharp, superfast, ‘always exact’ guy was being anything less than fast and exact that weekend.?

At one point, he said to me ‘I don’t have very long to live’. To which I replied, ‘Don’t be silly Dad’. Maybe he was a bit slow in his walk that weekend but Dad had always been our rock; stable, reliable and 100% healthy.

Two months later, he was gone.? On the 1st of September, he woke up happy in Athens, went out on a boat with my mum, and had the best day at sea before his heart stopped. He’d lived a very full life, and it was clearly his time to rest. I just didn’t realise how precious those last moments were while they were happening.?

The lesson Dad left me with is what I hold close to my heart: Live a full life. Make the most of the time you have.?

?We don’t know how long we’ll have with the people we love, but we can control what we focus on and how we spend our time.?

As soon as the news sank in, I knew I had to focus on things that maximise our joy. A few months later I set up a business to pull them together into an experience.?

• Move your body and appreciate what it can do
• Connect with others, laugh, share and love them as best as you can
• Connect with your own soul, get to know it and be compassionate with yourself
• Explore and appreciate the natural world we are a part of and its delicate complexity

These are the principles behind everything we do at More Life Adventures. They’re why we design retreats that let you reconnect with yourself, with others, and with the world around you.

Life is short, but it can be so full.?

Let’s make the most of the time that we have.?

Love from Stella @ More Life Adventures