During a visit to Moscow, we met a Russian who told us, “Life is not the number of days you live; it’s the number of days you remember.” His quote was a bit too long for a tattoo (100 rubles a letter adds up quickly), but we took it to heart.

It got us thinking about just how easily days, months, and years seem to merge together and fly by like we’re on autopilot… waking up at the same time, driving to work/school the same route, talking to the same people, and returning home to watch the same TV. So the question is…
 
How can we make life more memorable?

Based on our experiences in over 35 countries across five continents, we’ve discovered that it’s simply a matter of change. Do something different to break the mold of your daily routine. Each time you do what’s possible, rather than what’s probable, you add richness to your life. This added value is called Life Profit.

When you’re in the mind-frame of increasing your Life Profit, a funny thing happens. You begin to see the world around you as a collection of interesting and memorable experiences waiting to be had—whether it’s stepping into the bakery that you’ve always driven by, talking to the person ahead of you in line who you usually ignore, or going on a ghost hunt rather than watch one on TV.

We took it one step further…

We created ShowUsYourWorld.com as a way to break outside of our comfort zone and step into these wacky worlds around us—from the world of a South African safari ranger to the world of Kiwi adventure sports and everything in between. People from across the globe invite us to experience their world, and then we document it online for others to experience alongside us. It’s become a community documentary, inspiring others to find and share new ways to increase Life Profit.

Disclaimer: ShowUsYourWorld.com will not be held responsible for anyone driving their car off a bridge, drinking shampoo, grocery shopping in the nude, or participating in any other destructive behaviors intended to break the mold of their daily routine. The idea here is to add positive, profitable changes to your life, not a trip to the hospital or police station. Although, if you do end up doing any of these things, we’d love to hear about it. –ShowUsYourWorld Management

The ShowUsYourWorld Guys

From countless new worlds of experiences, we can look back and vividly remember hundreds of distinct days, down to the details of who we met, where we visited, what we tasted, or how we were nearly arrested after accidently walking into a women’s nude bathhouse…

Ok, so we’re usually like fish out of water when we step into these different situations, but that just adds to the humor. Well, except for when we nearly got killed on safari, or when we had to eat Chinese cow throat—that was just gross.

Mike Iskandar

Creative writer. World traveler. Crafter of short, punchy sentences. Like this one. Mike is a believer in the old adage that the pen is mightier than the sword. This is due primarily to the fact that he was unable to lift a moderately heavy sword in Scotland. But aside for that little mishap, it’s a testament to all the wacky worlds his writing has taken him—from a New Zealand glacier to a Portugese palace. Mike is the primary writer for ShowUsYourWorld.com, the website that you’re on now (in case you lost track of where you are--something Mike does often). He graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he studied journalism and once received a peanut-pelting from 60,000 football fans.  Email Mike

Dustin Garis

Dustin rode an angry bull last week. Before that, he became the first human to enroll in doggy daycare. Ask him what he’s up to next week and he’ll casually tell you he’s going to start his own hotel chain…in the Galapagos Islands. If he’s ever immortalized as a talking action figure, “I have an idea!” will be the words you hear when you pull the string on its back. That catch phrase has kept him outside the box since Kindergarten, when he wore a suit and tie and carried a briefcase to school. He’s since taken his entrepreneurial act to the Coca-Cola Company, where he became known as the CokeMan for his campus marketing stunts, and to P&G, where became known as the Tampon Man for his branding work with Tampax.  Email Dustin