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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...
Drawing The Line - a primer on travel journal sketching
This is a page from the sketchbook I have in Zihuatanejo with me. This gives me the opportunity to just play with the lines and the shapes without any kind of judgement….and it’s all good practice. One of the most enduring challenges people tell me they face when contemplating keeping a Travel Journal is that they’re not an ‘artist’. The simplest response here is - you don’t have to be. I’ll give you one important and very simple trick to start getting around that conundrum. Like lots of things in life, you’ll have to give it...