Characteristics of Wholesome Recreation
Scientific research has discovered that people across cultures find pleasure in similar experience. These experiences find the optimal balance of skill, control, structure, challenge, goal setting and feedback, concentration, merging action with environment, and transformation of time.

Successful Adventures in Wholesome Recreation
What makes and adventure exciting is their a degree of risk involved. Success in that adventure is a factor of the effort of preparation, concentration and skill that are applied to conquering that challenge. Great adventurers know how to manage the risk in order to maximize their success.

Preparing for Success
Preparation involves planning, study, research, practice.

The Virtue of Patience
Great leaders are people who are patient enough to learn from their mistakes, by learning options work and what doesn't.

Living Well Is the Process of Making Great Life Choices
There are three simple steps to gaining Wisdom:
Understand Truth - Knowledge is Power - To follow a correct principle, you must first understand how it works.
Accept Truth - When a principle is presented to you need to make a determination of whether its value to you is relevant. Is that principle true or false.
Commit to Follow Truth - Motivation Follows Action - Wisdom includes making the commitment to not only learn about true principles but to make them a intergral part of your life.

Motivation Follows Action

The first attempt to implement a true principle in your life is an act of faith. But always after you start living the principle you reap the benefits and your life is better because of it. Then your faith is transformed into knowledge.

Reduce Negative Influences In Your Life

To follow correct principles, you will need to actively and courageously remove from your environment those factors that will cause you to fail. In some cases you may need to ask for outside help. For your benefit we have added free links to useful resources in this fieldbook.

Living Well Is The Power To Be Your Best

Each day we are faced with many choices. We challenge you to make the best choice every time. Resolve ahead of time what kind of life you want for yourself.

More Articles About Wholesome Recreation
Marriage & Families Magazine - Strengthening Marriages and Families through Wholesome Recreation
Proclamation on the Family - Outlines basic principles for successful families including wholesome recreation.

Preparation for Careers Wholesome Recreation
Advance Training - Recreation Management and Youth Leadership [RMYL] - Brigham Young University has training programs to create superior leaders in the fields of leisure, recreation and youth programs.

Recreation Resources
International Federation of Parks and Recreation Administration IFPRA - the unique international organisation that represents parks, recreation, amenity, cultural, leisure and related services.

International Recreation Groups
International Olympic Committee - Official website of the Olympic Movement
International World Games Association IWGA - Made up of International Sports Federations, it administers a quadrennial and multidisciplinary sports event.

Youth Centered Recreation Groups
These international organizations focus on providing character building recreational experiences for our youth and other at risk groups.
World Scouting Organization -
Young Men's Christian Association YMCA -