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Chris Biasutti, Bangko Bangko Sekotong, Badung (2026)

08/12/2020

We were invited to celebrate American Thanksgiving Bali style!

Thanks and for hosting. Such a gorgeous venue and the hibiscus tea was amazing.

Alex had such a cool idea for everyone to anonymously write a gratitude card.

Everyone then read out someone else's gratitude before dinner. There were some good ones, like "I'm grateful for b***s". 😂😂

03/12/2020

- COMMITMENT -

In surfing if you don't commit to a big wave you wipeout.

You have to lean into the fear, let go, relax and go all in with everything you have.

Sometimes you make it, and sometimes you don't.

But in the process of committing to the wave you learn, you get better and you adjust for the next one.

I am a firm believer that you can have anything you want in life. But you CAN'T have EVERYTHING you want.

Whatever you decide to go after in life comes at a cost to something else.

To achieve a big dream requires big commitment.

Commitment means learning to say no to people, places and things that aren't in alignment with the direction you want to go.

This is a photo of me catching the wave of my life at Desert Point in Indonesia last month.

2.5 years ago I didn't know how to surf.

When you commit to something it's amazing what you can achieve.

Let me know what you've committed to recently in the comments.

05/07/2020

Do you want more out of life?

Are you stuck on your career journey?

Are you tired of waking up hungover to the same job, same apartment and same problems?

Do you want to make a change?

Join me and Connor Jackson tomorrow, July 5th @ 5pm PST right here for my first live podcast with this incredible human and find out why and how he left a dream job to sail across the ocean in a 26ft boat.

If you're considering making a change in your life this is a story you don't want to miss.

19/06/2020

I had almost everything in my life that I thought I wanted. On the outside everything was awesome. Yet something was missing....

This is a personal story about a challenge that I believe many people are faced with in the world today.

Some choose to keep their struggle with these challenges private, and that's ok.

I decided to share this because I believe this is a topic that needs to be talked about and this video is a message that needs to be shared.

When we choose to share our truth with the world we help others grow and we ourselves grow.

We don't have to face life alone. If you're ready to make a change in your life this is an invitation to reach out.

As Charlie Brown says, "Asking for help isn't weak, it's a great example of how to take care of yourself".

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02/06/2020

I've been feeling overwhelmed recently. Trying to find my place in the chaos that has embroiled the US and the world.

After sitting with it for awhile I realized what's overwhelming are emotions I've resisted connecting with.

To be honest, the discussion around and triggers old feelings of guilt and shame in me.

After taking some time to lean into these feelings a few things have come up.

1. I'm white and I am privileged.
2. My privilege is not my fault. This is analgous to how being a man is not my fault, or that it's not my fault that I did not feel seen or heard as a child.
3. I have a responsibility to attempt to understand and question the impact the privileges I've been given have on my life and, perhaps more importantly, how the way I respond to this privilege impacts others.
4. Racisim is no different than any other beliefs we hold or, more importantly in this case, think we do not hold. Unless we shine a light on them, question them and seek to understand them they will remain in the darkness, a part of our shadow, and influence our thoughts and behaviors in ways that are not in alignment with who we want to be.
5. The discussion we have the opportunity to have right now is not about me or you. It's about something much greater. It's about what those of us who are privileged can do to help those who are not.
6. There is very little in my life I can control, including riots in the US. All I can do is influence the direction I'm heading by taking responsibility for what I feel around my privilege and choosing how I respond to what I've been given.
7. I've been given male, white privilege. This does not make me who I am. What I choose to do with this makes me who I am.
8. Today, I choose to acknowledge my privilege by asking what I can give, not what I can get.

I'm privileged because of what I've been given. I'm responsible for what I create with what I've been given.

30/05/2020

I whole heartedly agree with Russell Brand when he says "the hardest thing I've done is try to wring satisfaction out of the material world".

I spent 29 years of my life running from my own fear and shame, trying to bend the world to my will and managing my emotions with an outside agent. By doing so I thought that I'd somehow be alright.

That way of thinking and behaving caused me and many others a whole lot of pain.

Everytime I'd try to exert my will over people, places and things I'd end up in pain and after 29 years of pain I'd had enough and started listening.

That whole time my pain had been trying to tell me a message. What I was doing was not working. I was powerless and needed a new power.

When faced with a storm surrender is key. Admitting we have no power paradoxically gives us all the power we need.

I don't need the power to calm the storm, I need only surrender to find the calm waiting within myself as I watch the storm pass by.

28/05/2020

This photo of me makes me so happy! And not just because it's a wickedly cool photo. (Which it is) It makes me happy for what it represents.

To me this photo represents getting up at 530 or 6am on countless mornings whether I wanted to or not, grabbing my board and heading to the surf.

It represents just going for it, leaning into my fear and commiting to trying to surf waves that terrified me.

It represents accepting that there would be many many times I would fail to catch waves and learning that the process really is more enjoyable than the outcome.

It represents for me that when you stop making excuses, get out of your own way and get laser focused on what your heart and soul wants you really can achieve anything in your life.

The truth is being a surfer was deep down something I always wanted to be. But because I didn't believe in me I didn't believe I could be a surfer.

Ultimately why this photo makes me so happy is simple.

It represents me doing what I love. And if that's possible for me, it's possible for you.

Thanks for snapping this awesome photo.

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23/05/2020

I've learned the path to creating more happiness and fulfillment in my day begins with asking two simple questions when I wake up.

What can I change?

What can I NOT change?

A good friend of mine once called this the two pile system. I liked that so that's what I call it.

The key to answering these questions is deciding what to put in the piles.

There are a lot of things I come across in a day that I'd like to change. In a typical day in my life here are some of those things.

I'd like to change the president of the United States, I'd like to make my kids stop whining, I'd like my boat to stop breaking and trying to sink itself all the time, I'd like to have gone surfing yesterday when the waves were good, I'd like to not get tired at night and have to sleep.

Five years ago I used to fight to change a lot of these things because I thought, if only people would do what I wanted them to, my life would be great!

That approach ended me up in a dark, anxious, overly stressed and miserable place. In hindsight I think many of us would feel this way if we tried to take everyone else's problems.

Today, I realize that focusing on trying to change something I have no control over is not just a waste of time, it's a reaction to an old emotional attachment that distracts me from focusing on what matters. Namely, what I can change.

Focusing on what I can change makes working the two pile system super easy. 99.9% of what happens in my life I can't control or change. The 0.1% that I can change boils down to one thing and one thing only. My actions.

I'm going to repeat that because it's so beautifully simple it's easy to dismiss.

What I can change are my actions.

The way to create more happiness and fullfiment throughout your day is surprisingly simple when we get out of our own way. Focus on doing the next right thing.

I can't change the wind, but I can adjust the sails.

22/05/2020

Sometimes we don't think to question the beliefs that we're raised with. Our experience visiting the largest Spirit House in the Solomons on Santa Ana provides a great example of the negative consequences that can arise from not challenging our beliefs.

Looking at this through the lens of our "western" values of freedom and equality of rights both Sayo and I found it hard to accept what these people seem to take for granted. That woman here are not allowed to do what men are.

21/05/2020

Home sweet home.❤️

She's carried us over 15,000 miles across the ocean. She takes care of us and has kept us safe in storms keeping (most) of the water out and the kiddies safe and warm inside.

She loves attention so much that sometimes I think Sayo gets a little jealous I spend so much time taking care of her.

Because she loves so much attention she's taught me many things I did not know before I met her. Like how to fix her waste disposal units, how to repair her dainty skin and what type of paint she prefers on her bum.

Her favourite thing to do is run free across the wind with her arms spread wide galloping across the waves.

She proudly carries my surf boards everywhere I go. (No matter how many times I ask I can't get Sayo to do that)

I laugh, swear, scream, cry and then get on with giving her what she wants at least once a month. Sometimes, when she's particularly needy this goes on for days.

She's taken us to places and introduced us to people I didn't even know existed.

We've lived many dreams and created many moments with her that I'll remember forever.

She's our home and I love her.

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20/05/2020

My good buddy in India, Suresh is hosting a Iive with me this weekend and we're so excited for it.

Suresh is the best living example I know of how to deal with and overcome crippling fear. I met him in 2012 in the Philippines when he walked into a dive shop where I was working as a Dive master. He said he wanted to go Scuba Diving. The only catch was he was terrified of the water. He was so afraid of the water the first and only time he had gone swimming was a few weeks prior in preparation for his trip.

As I stood there listening to Suresh explain all this to me I felt an overwhelming desire to help him. This is lesson 1.

When you open yourself up and honestly share your fears people are attracted to help you.

Lesson 2 is what Suresh did next.

In the face of his fear he committed to action and invested in support and accountability to help him realize a positive outcome. He signed up and committed to going out the next day on a discovery Scuba Dive with me as his Dive Master.

I can only imagine what Suresh was feeling on the morning of the scheduled dive. We can ask him on our live on Sunday. For now sure assume it was a mix of excitement and sheer terror.

What I do know is that it took immense courage for him to show up on the dive boat that day, strap on his gear and not only get into the water with me, but dive beneath the surface to 10m and explore a wreck!

This is lesson 3.

The feeling of fear disappears when challenged by courageous action. Everytime we choose courage over fear we begin to build faith. And as our faith builds the level of fear we experience decreases and it becomes just a little bit easier be courageous.

Looking back on this experience I have a massive amount of respect for the courage Suresh demonstrated throughout this journey.

In order to overcome a fear of water he chose to literally immerse himself in it.

The next time your faced with a challenging fear remember Suresh and may his story remind you to choose courage.

For more on this story and others, join us this Sunday at 2:30pm India Standard Time for a Live Chat on Instagram.

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