Diet and lose weight, a.k.a.
means work out more like maybe three or four times a week.
Practice a healthier eating habits.
Be more conscious of the sugar intake.
I eat a lot of candies.
Work up to posting 2 to 3 YouTube videos a week.
We'll see how that goes.
But it's there on my list.
Upgrade my website design, I really haven't changed it or upgrade it since 2010.
I really should do something.
Oh yeah and travel more.
Hi, this is CHRISTINE- of grrrltraveler.
Today I'm going to share with you tips on how to travel more.
At the very beginning of the year we all start off with a whole list of goals that we're
going to start implementing in our lives to make our lives better and more fulfilling.
However, out of all those goals that we start off with with good intentions, along the way
and within the year with those a good chunk of them.
That diet one a lot of people go down on that one within a month.
All of you out there watch me, my channel, you read my blog, because you want to be inspired
to make these changes in your own life.
You want to be inspired to travel.
My job as a blogger is to help get you on that journey and get you out there so that
you achieve some of your travel goals.
Today I'm gonna share with you, some steps you can take to keep you on that track and
to get you actually traveling.
If you have a dream to travel, then what kind of trouble do you want to do.
Do you want to do solo travel, do you want to do around the world trip, do you want to
live abroad, do you want to study abroad.
You want to take just a weekend trip.
Whatever it is, write it down.
When you write down you make it into tangible action.
It's almost like you take a little memory trip that you programmed, and you insert it
into your brain.
That's kind of how I feel at times especially when I'm memory and rising lines for a script,
I will memorize it but I will also write it died.
The reason why I say that you write it down is that you you're creating it you're putting
it into your mind into very tangible form.
It's very different from speaking it.
When you start writing it down your mind starts going to planning mode.
I didn't knows it that is something you're accountable for.
People will go ahead and parade their New Year's resolutions and goals to everyone.
They'lll everyone about which goal they have, ... but once they speak it, they make the
mistake of unconsciously thinking that they've already done it.
I've had this happen with a lot of friends.
Having a dream that you were building on, is different from having a dream to diet,
or exercise, workout or lose weight.
While you may need that support for inspiration of other people knowing about that goal to
help you over that hurdle, to cheer you on, something like a dream to travel is a little
different.
It's not something that everyone can understand, or consciously support, especially if they're
not living that travel dream themselves.
I chunk travel dreams in the same category as every other dream, like for me to be an
actress.
These are very sensitive dreams that are kind of living in glass cases.
And people can easily throw rocks at it and break them
. I don't like to put out there, my goal or dream until I already start taking steps to
strengthen it.
Once its of strength and that goal or dream, I feel like it's ready, I'll launch it.
When you launch it, when you let your secret out, it's only because it's gotten some strength
behind it.
Now imagine yourself is the kind of coach of the team.
And you need to game plan, you need a strategy.
Do you want parental support to study abroad, for a year?
You need money for around the world trip?
Maybe you need to ask your boss for time off for a vacation?
You have to ask yourself what you need to get that ultimate goal.
Take a pen and paper, and start brainstorming.
Let's take the example of you wanting to live abroad.
That seems overwhelming when you just think about it but if you put into actionable steps
and start planning out your strategy,
...I can make that call happen by either doing a working holiday visa, teaching English abroad,
open program and work at her farm houses, a study abroad program.
What of all of these are going to help fund my overall vision so that I can live in a
country without having to exhaust my budget or am I savings?
You kind of feel out what feels right for you, what feels good for you.
Something you're excited by about doing.
And you choose the avenue and create steps.
This is the very step today took for myself a few years back when I went to live in Korea.
Because I chose this strategy a kind of filled out everything, it was like the bomb.
Displayed for my plane trip ticket, it paid for my rent and my apartment and it paid for
my lifestyle and I even got to save money so that I could travel to neighboring countries
that's how my travel dream or travel more dream happen.
First I thought about where I want to live in the world, how I want to fund that lifestyle,
from there it mushroomed out not only to traveling Korea but Asia and Southeast Asia.
Because I had strategize this ticket and I made steps to getting there it just, trimmed
out into the entire picture of me traveling more more more, living abroad, finding myself
and that was it.
Number three create actionable steps.
This is key.
If you go struggle more then I'm going to say that this is a very overwhelming goal.
And it may feel too overwhelming and too big to tackle.
So you want to do a sit down.
What are actionable steps you can take in order to make sure that the bigger goal happens.
Actual steps are a little baby steps but you can take along the way to help you ensure
you're creating building blocks, so that you can actually form a bridge to your call.
What's he defined that one ticket that's going to help you achieve everything, you can create
steps to getting there.
For in terms of travel, If you have a travel goal, stalk it, dog it and pursue it.
You want to bump it up on your priority list of things to do.
The travelers that didn't find success in their travel dreams are usually people who
gave up in the process and who didn't have a firm commitment, who let other people tear
their dream down or maybe they didn't create time or enough dedication to it.
They didn't prioritize it in their life.
When you prioritize something in your life like travel, you make yourself all about travel.
Will you make a larger part of it about travel.
Whether it is pursuing inspiration through the trouble bloggers, or follow my YouTube
videos or reading my blog.
Watching foreign films or joining a meet up groups, putting some money aside with every
paycheck you get, pay put it into savings for your travel funds.
There's no way you cannot succeed and traveling.
Sometimes your travel go might be too big for the time and place that you're in financially
or schedule wise.
They sit down to something that's a lot more accommodating to what you can achieve.
By doing so you create a success and a confidence within that to take you onto the next journey.
But I know some of you who follow me and my channel, you left comments letting me know
that my videos give you confidence that you could travel alone, because you saw me doing
it and it's impossible.
Because you made it happen that's good to build a bridge to your next journey and the
next journey and the next journey, until do it so much that you think, traveling alone,
that's just one more adventure I'm going to create for myself.
Start today.
Schedule it write it down, so that you can put things into action.
There's no reason why you couldn't start today, even if you're just planning your idea brainstorming.
If you start funneling some of your paychecks into your savings.
Whatever action you take it will create the next action and the next action like spokes
on the wheel and you need the spokes in order for the wheels to start turning.
Never underestimate your own hometown city, or your home country.
I've done this a lot with way.
I'm very guilty myself and all my friends are like, you know that one of the number
one vacation spots in the knighted states and why are you not blogging it or why aren't
you visiting or photographing it.
Even though I think I know her away a lot, I haven't explored it a lot and there are
probably many tourists out there that have explored it more than I have.
I was hiking with my cousin this weekend and testing out one of my cameras and it made
me realize like yeah, I need to do this more often!
You know there's a lot of spots on a Oahu that I have not visited, it's like an alien
territory to me!
That's a shame because obviously a lot of you out there are looking at my destination
and are like wow, I want to go to Hawaii.
So in your hometown what can you do?
You can join meet up groups, Instagram photo groups, hiking groups,... anything to encourage
you to get out of your tiny little bubble or to change the path that you take from your
home to your workplace.
Sometimes, maybe change up the route.
Remember, major rule: exotic is anything that you haven't done.
Traveling more is really about creating time, money, resources, a priority and creating
space in your life to travel.
So let me know what your travel goals are for this year.
When you start achieving the dream or goal you make something happen, you let me know
in the comments action below.
Travel safe smart and fun.
I want to see some of those goals happening this year.
May the GRRR be with you!
Diet, lose weight, eat healthy, be more eco friendly ad ethical, work up to 2-3 videos
a week in YouTube, design a new website and make 2 more Ebooks.... oh yeah, and travel
more!
At the start of the new year we all have goals.
Create a vision - feed it like a secret seed growing inside
you.
Field the possibility and look at the steps you need to take.
Plan your goal - rye, weekend trip, day trip , solo travel, living abroad
Prioritize for it.
Put it close to your to do list.
Better yet make it one of your passions to doggedly pursue.
Watch foreign films, learn a language, watch my YouTube videos and follow my blog and Instagram
account.
Follow other travel bloggers.
Pursue to with dogged passion.
Stalk it.
The only reason people don't succeed is because they gave up too early or got lazy and expected
it to happen on its own or with very little effort.
Create actionable steps?
This is key.
This is the big inside guru note.
You.
Red parental support to study abroad for a year, you need money for a rtw trip, you need
to ask you boss for time off from work...
you want to go solo but you're not sure if you can handle traveling on your own.
There's workingbholiday visas where you can live and work in another country, teaching
English, studying abroad.
Start small, Baby steps, Rome wasn't built in a day and it's all about creating a bridge
to get there.
You need parental approval, start showing responsibility, need money, start saving,
you want to travel alone, start testing yourself on small trips.
Start today.
Schedule it and write it down so you can put it into action.
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Start saving, cutting back in expenses at home, use direct deposit into your savings
for your paychecks or alot a sum for yourself on the side.
Sometimes this one goal will lead to many little ones like a wheel.
You need several spokes to turn it and have it balance weight of an object.
Do not underestimate the obvious.
Your home.
I've done this a lot with Hawaii and all my friends are like-- Hawaii is a number one
vacation spot!
And there are many spots in Hawaii that I haven't explored or tried.
I think tourists have done more than me!
So I went hiking with my cousin to and I was like, yeah.
I need to do this more often.
It's making the idea of moving very hard at the moment.
this year I'm planning to explore my home more.
Remember: exotic is anything you haven't done.
Join meetup groups Instagram meet ups or hiking groups to help encourage you to get out and
explore places you've not yet been to.
I have to remember to follow this part of my own advice and maybe like an exercise partner
we can encourage each other together.
Remember, traveling more is creating time, money, a priority and a space in your life
for travel.
Let me know what are your travel goals.
And something you'd can put into practice today.