You have an adventurous soul. You feel the most alive when you’re outside, exploring the Earth, seeing new places, and trying new, wild things. Adventure is where you find fulfillment, feel the most like you, and remember why you love being alive.

But what about when the time or money just isn’t there to go on these adventures, or you feel burnt out?

Here are ways to feed your soul, relax your mind, and energize yourself to get ready for your next big adventure.

Small, Easy Adventures

Even on days that are way too busy and days when your energy is low, there are so many ways to be adventurous without even spending a dime.

Watch the Sunrise

When there’s no time in your day to explore this beautiful Earth, wake up a few minutes early to see one of the most beautiful phenomenons that most of the world sleeps through- the sun rising and painting the sky as it goes.

Watch the Sunset Too

This one’s even easier since you don’t have to lose any sleep over it.

Drive to a lookout to watch the sunset, do a sunset hike, watch it with friends, or even just make a point to look out the window to see the pretty sky.

Do Your Regular Inside Activities Outside Instead

Have a picnic instead of eating at the kitchen table. Find a spot outside when you’re doing homework, making art, playing guitar, scrolling on your phone, writing in your journal, or hanging out with friends.

Go for a hike

Whether it’s climbing a mountain, walking slowly on a beautiful trail, or something in between- go on a hike.

Move your body in a way that makes you love existing in your own skin while experiencing everything beautiful in nature.

When you don’t want to drive out to a trail or have time to do a hike, just take a walk.

Get Outside and Do Nothing

Go to your happy place (somewhere beautiful outside) to relax your mind and body while feeding your adventurous soul.

Lay in the grass, sit by the water, sunbathe, sit on a bench with a pretty view, stand and let the breeze blow all around you. Go somewhere you love and just be there. That’s it. I promise it will make you feel incredible.

Find a Way to Connect Your Adventures to Another Area of Your Life

Make Your Living Space Feel Like Adventure

Cover your walls with photos from past travels. If you’ve saved plane tickets, event wristbands, National Park maps, and other things from your travels, display these in your living space with a collage. Put stickers on the back of your car from the places you’ve been.

It’s sort of like how it’s easier to focus in a clean room. If your living space is filled with things that make you feel alive, you will have a constant, positive reminder of this life you want to live and the excitement you have for adventure will carry over into other aspects of your life.

Turn it into Art

Turn your adventure memories and dreams into art. Paint the landscapes you dream about, draw a scene from a trip you took, make a collage with photos and other mementos from your adventures, and get creative when editing your pictures.

Write About it

If you like writing, feed your adventurous soul this way.

Try designating a journal for this. This way, you can have a place to write freely, for your eyes only. Write about everything travel and adventure related. Bucket lists, itineraries from your trips, stories from your travels, describe the places you’ve seen, write about the dreams you have and the places you want to see, make lists of the coolest places you’ve seen, write poems, and write letters for future you to read when you’re sitting on the plane headed to your dream destination or after you do something on your bucket list.

Get Excited About Future Adventures

The way you dream about this life and get excited about the next thing is how you flow from one cool thing to the next and create that life of adventure that fulfills you.

Make a Bucket List

Make a bucket list so you can get excited and give yourself something to look forward to and work towards.

You can make bucket lists for everything, both big and small. Create a life-long bucket list of everything you want to do, see, and experience in this life. Add to it whenever you think of new things, and be sure to cross things off as often as possible.

Aside from your bucket list for the grand scheme of your life, make some smaller-scale bucket lists too. Make bucket lists for each season, for the year or school year, for each month, and even for the week and weekend. Get creative and make bucket lists just for different places to do your homework, places to watch the sunset, hikes you want to do, things you want to try to learn

Look back at your lists whenever you’re feeling like life is boring to give yourself something to look forward to and remind yourself that good things are coming in your future.

Create a Vision Board

It can be a physical vision board, Pinterest board, or anything else you want to create.

Find photos that inspire you and give you that urge to work hard and create the life you want to live.

Look At Photos From a Past Trip

Look at old photos from a past trip and let the memories flood back to you.

See pictures of yourself, your friends, or your family, and remember how happy you were to be there and all the memories you have from that trip. Look at photos from places that were so beautiful you started jumping up and down the moment you saw them in real life.

Let your photos and memories from your past adventures remind you how much happiness you feel on adventures, and let that energize you for the next one.

Book It.

Buy the plane tickets, plan the trip to the place you’ve always wanted to go, buy those concert tickets, text your friends to find out who’s down for an adventure, and make a reservation to finally skydive.

It’s self-care. I promise.