Expand Your Mind Through Travel Experiences

I've been blessed to be able to travel and live in many exiting places, sometimes at very magical times. From 2003 - 2010 I was in Buenos Aires, a time when expats and travels were organically being pulled to Buenos Aires. i ws a moment in time, like the West bank of pairs at the turn of the 19th century, Greenwich Village, NYC in the 60s, and Prague in the 80s.  Next came Mexico and then India, where I reside today.  Friends see me traveling around the world and tell me "Your life is like a movie," so we decided to turn it into one. So we're going to launch a travel-adventure web series and we want you to participate for as little as $2 a month. I've been a vagabonder since 2014 when I met and befriended a Colombian photojournalist. She'd been traveling solo -- or rather backpacking (they're different things I was to discover) --  since the age of sixteen. When she and I traveled to northern Argentina, we traveled by bus, hitchhiked, and walked.  It was amazing.

The Space Between

After months of relentless work, expectations, and stress, I yearned for that place that I seldom find. One can seek it out, but there is no actual path to get there; one must inadvertently stumble into it, and tonight I did.

Contemplating Technology and the ongoing Public Forum

The rapid rise of technology is claimed by some to be inhibiting human interaction. Others claim that it contributes to the public journal and the broadcasting of it. What do you think, can both sides be correct?

I thought about this one day when I was compelled to stop and snap a photo that I wanted to share on my Facebook page. 

So yesterday I sat and pondered this social dilemma to see what logic I could apply to it.  Read the article here: http://www.brieaustin.com/2013/09/the-rapid-rise-of-technology-and-the-public-forum/

Racism Is Dead ...

Well, at least in New York, for this weekend ... every one is green ... and white!

The New Middle Age

I never thought much about birthdays growing up; they never resonated for me. It was always just a day that someone else -- my mother, my wife, my friends -- decided to have a party that I would attend and receive some presents. I never carried any emotion for me.

Sudden Life Shifts

Life is an odd thing with no warning of when it may shift beneath your feet and take you in a  direction you never expected. I was in Denver visiting with my sister and family this past spring. So while there I  contacted the Office of Tourism to see if they could assist me with contacts for potential stories. They did, and while the places I went to review were all interesting, it was the stories of the people behind them that was more so. 

The Smallest Meditator

The Religious-Science Impassse

Recently arriving in Bangalore India for a six-month stay, I’ve enjoyed the daily reading of The Speaking Tree column; prompting me to return to my own thoughts on religion and being.

Coming from a mixed-religion household, my mother was a Protestant, (of English, Scottish and Cherokee heritage), and my father was a Jew (of an Irish Catholic father, and a Russian Jewish mother), i’m not quite sure if that makes me -- religiously speaking -- more confused, or less.  

Joy in the Moments

Jesus said that "It's pointless for a man to gain the whole world, yet lose his very self," and the Buddha whimsically pointed out that "seeking happiness in one's material desires is as absurd as suffering because a banana tree will not bear mango." 

I've Been Distracted

Arriving in Bangalore India two weeks ago, I've been running around setting up my office operations and try to stay up to date.  But I promise I will start posting more insightful and regular post soon.  

Rough Days

Yeah, sometimes it just like that.

Running A Business

Posted By Brie Austin In Category: Business , Insights

Running a business is like riding on a roller coaster. Although it is fun and exciting, there will be times when you’ll be scared and feel powerless. During the bad times there isn’t much you can do, other than to keep on pushing forward.

So in that spirit, here are 101 quotes that will motivate you to push forward.

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Routinely Inspiring

Do routines suck the life out of our creativity and limit our sphere of experience, or provide a stable balance to it?

The WInds of Change

Though nothing is cemented yet, I feel elements of my hopes and dreams gathering -- like moisture in a distant summer storm picking up momentum.

The direction of this momentum remains unclear, but that's OK.  The sense of the possible is a force unto itself that at times uses you as the vessel for it to manifest itself.

Signs

Life is a funny thing, with no rule book or sign posts.  So we stumble along searching for where we're supposed to be, sometimes hoping the road will lead to where we want to be.  But does our subconscious lead us to where we should be despite where we could be? Are we secretly the authors of our own destiny?  Is the current we often struggle to resist that of our own internal voice, which knows where to take us?