What I Learned From My Vacation Travels
Even a vacation can become a personal teaching tool. Here are 12 lessons I'm passing on to you as I think about my recent travels.
1. You can look back, but you can't return
All you have of the past is memories. Cherish them, but don't dwell on them. Look forward, not backward.
2. Learn from past mistakes.
If you make mistakes along the way, find a better solution and then release your negative thoughts about the subject.
3. Bloom where you're planted
Do the best you can from where you are. If this picture changes often, try to make each picture vivid, clear, and meaningful. As you move into a new place, enjoy it for what it is and don't let it distract you for too long from your ultimate goal.
4. Keep a positive attitude
Even if you experience some negative situations as you travel, keep your attitude positive, as it will help you move through the bad things and back into the light.
5. Greet all you meet with a smile and a friendly word
you treat everyone you meet as a potential new friend, or as a person who might have an interesting story, you will draw them into your circle and may find you have made a valuable alliance that can help you later in some way.
6. Relish the difference
When you meet new people and face new situations, you are pushing your boundaries and enlarging the landscape of your life. From the differences you can create new dimensions to your own experience and weave those new ideas into your present life.
7. Become an astute observer
People who are different from you may also have different ideas of how to do things. Observe their methods. Perhaps you can find a better way to do something from your observations.
8. Take notes
Write down the new ideas you receive, as you may be able to use them later as you write.
9. Don't be afraid to try something new
Traveling is an excellent way to find the opportunity to do something outside your realm of experience. Seize the chance, as you could be adding a valuable new dimension to your life that will help you move forward.
10. Ask questions
Learn from new people about their dreams. Perhaps you have something to offer that is just what they are looking for.
11. Remain flexible
When you move outside your realm of experience, you may find you have to let go of your ideas about a situation. You may need to alter your course or your beliefs to align with your present circumstances. Allow yourself the freedom to change.
12. Enjoy the process
No matter where your experience leads you or what you discover that you have to change along the way, remember to enjoy your present moment. This moment will not come again, and you miss an opportunity if you pass through it from a negative place. Find pleasure in your new experience.
Coming home is often a happy relief after a long journey. If you were positive and happy as you traveled, you will find that coming home simply enhances the whole experience you have had.
Return to your customary lifestyle with a renewed energy and a readiness to incorporate your new-found knowledge of the world into your old belief system.
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I love this post you are right especially you can't look back keep your head up and look forward
Yep, the looking back is okay if you just look. However, you can't go there any more. Looking forward is the way to go.
This is crazy. I was just thinking about you yesterday! I LOVE this
post. Everything you wrote, I follow, and so true!
I had not seen any of your posts in a bit, and I was off for a couple of months, so I now know why. You were traveling. Good for you.
Excellent reminder about life.
I will be sending you a PM about something I want to share with you.
Great to see you are doing well
That is excellent...hope the lessons continue. It is good to be able to reach someone with your words.
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You learn more in your solace than your echo, be a student of life, not a flamboyant who never learns the difference. Glad your travels have served you well.
Great comment -- thanks. Yes, my travels have served me well.