AMAZING Life Manifesto: Document Your Journey

Amazing Life Manifesto, Dreaming  //  6th February 2013

It has been a bit crazy over the past few weeks. As much as we love love love traveling, it has left us feeling quite disconnected. Don’t get us wrong; disconnecting can be a very good thing!!! However, when it leaves us scrambling to put up blog posts because of lack of Internet connection, it has us definitely appreciating the interwebs when we do have them! ;) Thanks so much for being so patient with us and understanding when we have been a little less than consistent on getting our blog posts up! ;)

Today, for our delayed AMAZING Life Manifesto post, we wanted to share a little inspiration that we have been reminding ourselves over and over the past few weeks! Document Your Journey! It is so easy, especially as photographers (which is ironic, right?), to forget to take the time to capture our own personal moments. Sometimes carrying the camera around with us is just a hassle or other times we feel bad asking people to stop for a moment and capture a moment in time for us. But those excuses are just excuses, my friends! Crazy excuses that actually rob us of our own memories that we so want to remember!!!

Over the past few weeks, we have been all over the place and our minds have been trying desperately to keep up- but reality is, we cannot remember everything! Through this experience we have gained an even greater appreciation for taking the time to capture this very moment and document our journey along the way! Our cameras have been in our hands over the past few weeks and we have definitely been capturing the sites and sounds of our travels! We have so much to share with you all… but in the meantime (as we wrap our minds around everything), we thought we would share with you a very special video that our friend Jeremy (of Jeremy Mitchell Cinema) put together to help all of us remember the incredible journey that was the What’s Next Tour! Watching this video brings out so many emotions and is the perfect way of remembering this crazy journey we were just on! We are so excited and truly grateful for this gift and special documentation of our journey! Thanks Jeremy!!! And after watching this awesome video, be sure to check out our Instagram feed and hashtag #whatsnextcrew to see more of our fun adventures!

Amazing Life Manifesto with Kid President

Amazing Life Manifesto, Dreaming  //  28th January 2013

We were all sitting on the bus gathered around the laptop. The voice of a little boy giving a life changing peptalk stole our attention. Soon, everyone on the bus was gathered around one computer watching Kid President tell us everything we needed to hear. A pep talk as he calls it! ;)

We have seen this video all over our Facebook feeds, but we couldn’t resist sharing it again with you all! If you have not taken a moment to watch this video (or even if you have) please watch it and get to work on giving the world something to dance about! ;) Please.

Thank you Kid President for being AMAZING and for changing the world. We appreciate you! ;)

The AMAZING Life Manifesto: Play

Amazing Life Manifesto, Dreaming  //  21st January 2013

Ohh Happy Day!!! It’s Monday!  We hope you had an AMAZING weekend!  This week we are starting with a little juggling for our AMAZING Life Manifesto Video! :) Often times we let our to do lists get so large that we forget about the most important to do: Having Fun! So this week, be sure to schedule in a little extra time to Play!  Whether it’s going to a movie, playing with a puppy, or juggling, be sure to make it a priority to play, have fun, and laugh! Have an AMAZING week!

Live an AMAZING Life Smile at Strangers

Amazing Life Manifesto, Dreaming  //  14th January 2013

Have you ever heard that quote, “Keep smiling, it makes people wonder what you are up to?” How true is that? Smiling is so contagious and it automatically draws people in to see what you have going on! ;)

A few weeks ago, Ryan and I were out and about doing some last minute Christmas Shopping and Ryan was determined to make the experience bright! ;) Not only for us, but for everyone around us! He seriously was saying hi to everyone we passed! ;) He put a smile on his face and just did it! The reactions were kind of AMAZING! Pretty much everyone smiled back… and if they didn’t, they looked at us like, “Ohh, you are talking to me?!?” ;) And then they smiled! ;)

The power of a smile is pretty much awesome! You should try it, Smile at Strangers today, tomorrow and the next day! Not only will you make their day, but you will probably make your own day brighter too!

Take a Chance | The Amazing Life Manifesto

Amazing Life Manifesto, Dreaming  //  7th January 2013

Ryan has a way of saying things that leave me thinking… thinking hard. During the times I need it most, he asks the right questions and says things that stop me in my tracks. I remember one specific situation where I was at a cross roads (a breaking point, if you will! ;) ). I needed to hear exactly what Ryan was going to tell me. He said, “You will never know if you can live your dream or not until you Take a Chance and try. If you fail, you fail. At least you know you gave it all you’ve got.”

AMAZING, right?! Take A Chance. Ahhh! It feels good just to say it! ;)

If there is something that is holding you back, or you have something in your mind that you just can’t wrap your hands around to make happen… please share it with us! We want to encourage you and help you do what you need to do to Take a Chance and make your dreams a reality!!

We are your cheerleaders this week! Go and do!! ;) (Don’t laugh too hard thinking about Ryan in a cheerleading uniform…. I actually might have a picture from Halloween in High School of what that looks like! :) …it is quite funny!)

Have an AMAZING week!

PS, sorry for the late post today! We have a super AMAZING video to go with this post too but have been having wifi issues today :( Once we get it uploaded we will be sure to share it here and on Facebook!

[Updated With the Video!]