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New Year's Resolution: Plan Your Travel Journal!
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New Year’s Resolution - Plan Your Travel Journal (Hiking Journal/Paddle Journal/Cycling Journal/Road-trip Journal etc.) Think about the NIKE slogan - Just Do It! How often have you come home from a warm winter vacation or an epic road-trip and thought to yourself,’ I wish I’d kept a Journal on that trip!’ It’s not too late to pick up that sentiment and run with it in this New Year. I’ve ben keeping Travel Journals for years – and in some very out-of-the-way places. So I know a few things about what works and what can help you...
More Memories - Clearer Memories
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A spectacular view of Mount Hood as we paddled the Columbia River. How clear would you like your memories to be? How clearly would you like to recall the wonderful and exciting memories of your summer vacation hiking weekends, or your road trip back to your home town, and so much more? There are lots of research studies out there now that demonstrate just how much better and clearer your memories will be if you write them down - and that’s just one of the many benefits of keeping a Travel Journal. We all take...
Nurture Your Creative Spirit
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This is the Title Page of the latest Travel Journal I’m doing - I started this last summer and will probably finish it this spring with short local trips. Permission Pause Passion Perspective It seems to me that these 4 words combine to give us something that we all strive to have more of somewhere in our lives - a creative spirit. And it won’t surprise you that, I believe, keeping a Travel Journal is an ideal vehicle to begin that process of caring for your creative side. A Travel Journal can hold all those unique...
Build Your Self Confidence - how a simple Travel Journal can help
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A beautiful panorama view looking north from Madera, over the harbour at Zihuatanejo, Mexico. If any of us had to define Self Confidence, we would probably all come up with a list of character traits that most of us would aspire to: Decisive approach to life Open to taking risks Optimistic Ability to learn from mistakes Does what is right Open minded To one degree or another, we also probably demonstrate lots of these character traits. In the same breath, I think it’s fair to say that most of us would love to strengthen those...
Press ‘Pause’ - the benefits of a Travel Journal
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The pace of modern living is certainly one of the things we find most challenging. From morning to evening, there seems to be a barrage of people and events and things vying for our attention. In the same breath, I think it’s fair to say that most of us know (even if it’s somewhere deep down inside us) that giving ourselves some form of ‘pause’ is healthy in so man ways. Mentally, it helps calm your outlook; physically, it alters your pace in good ways; emotionally, it leaves a vestige of hope that life...