Nobody can accuse Kenyon ?Salo of being comatose at the bicycle of life. A motivational speaker, Kenyon has fabricated over 5,000 skydives and 400 base jumps. As i of the six members of the Denver Broncos Thunderstorm Skydive Team, he flies into Sports Dominance Field at over 60 mph at each dwelling game, landing on his toes on the 10-g line. He'south been to a lot of Broncos games but he's never in one case had to come up in through the gate.

Kenyon'south life is filled with the kind of adrenaline-packed activities that many people would honey to do. And he's helping those people to bask those experiences. Kenyon is likewise the creator of TheBucketListLife.com, a customs that introduces people to extreme experiences, from leaping out of planes to wrestling alligators.

It's not the kind of job that most people would retrieve of, just it is the kind of job that many extreme sports enthusiasts would dream of. So what tin Kenyon's journey to his ideal lifestyle teach other people looking to build their ain perfect lives?

The commencement lesson is that the path to your destination might well get through a period of hard attempt. "At that place are times when y'all have to buckle downwards and do what needs to be done," says Kenyon. And then if you lot don't accept the majuscule that lets yous go through the period that always comes before revenue, then you might have to do ii or 3 things at the same time, working a 9-to-5 task then focusing on what you really want to practice until midnight or later. "Eventually you lot're able to make the jump from one to the other," he says.

For Kenyon, the process was reversed. He worked nights for a property maintenance company in Colorado while spending his days on the ski slopes until he was adept plenty to become a professional snowboarder.

But moving towards work that'due south so enjoyable it doesn't experience like piece of work requires more than than the hours needed to make the leap. According to Kenyon, the action you choose to do needs to contain three things.

First information technology needs be about you. It has to be something that makes y'all excited and happy. Not anybody is going to find that in leaping out of a perfectly skilful plane, just that'south what does it for Kenyon Salo, and then that was the path he chose, however strange that might exist those of us who prefer to get our thrills reading Stephen Male monarch.

Secondly, it should build a connection with others. The excitement that comes from sharing stories with friends and colleagues builds bridges between people. It opens new paths in life that people might not take considered and exposes them to new opportunities. And even if those people choose not to take those paths, the stories deepen friendships and forges relationships.

And 3rd, the activity should help others because that's when information technology'southward most fulfilling. Doing something that you dearest is always an incredible experience simply the simply thing that beats it is helping other people to do what they love. Even if what they really honey to do is jump out of a plane.

For the complete interview with Kenyton Salo, cheque out episode #seven of The Fun Podcast below.