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What's In It For Me? (the benefits of keeping a Travel Journal)

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What's In It For Me? (the benefits of keeping a Travel Journal)

What’s In It For Me? (the benefits of keeping a Travel Journal)   Embarking on any kind of travel, whether it's a weekend getaway or a month-long adventure, can be an exhilarating experience. Certainly, creating unforgettable memories is an inherent part of traveling, and capturing those special moments and quiet reflections in a Travel Journal can add a whole new and unexpected dimension to your adventures.      Beyond simply jotting down your itinerary, keeping a Journal offers so many benefits that go well beyond the duration of your trip. Let me give you a few of the benefits of...

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Travel Journal Hacks #1 - Selecting Your Travel Journal - everything you wanted to know but were afraid to ask!

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Travel Journal Hacks #1 - Selecting Your Travel Journal - everything you wanted to know but were afraid to ask!

Travel Journal Hacks # 1  Selecting Your Travel Journal – everything you wanted to know but were afraid to ask…   After you’ve taken a Journal with you on a few trips, you’ll find that you begin to develop your own preferences. You’ll find that you have a certain the size of journal and page-count that you like. You’ll find there is a particular weight of paper that works for you, and so much more.      Over the years of teaching others how to keep a Travel Journal, and after years of keeping them myself, it strikes me that...

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Nurture Your Creative Spirit

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Nurture Your Creative Spirit

  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...

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Build Your Self Confidence - how a simple Travel Journal can help

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Build Your Self Confidence - how a simple Travel Journal can help

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...

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Press ‘Pause’ - the benefits of a Travel Journal

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Press ‘Pause’ - the benefits of a Travel Journal

        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...

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