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Travel Addiction is a Good Motivational Tool
If there is one thing that will spur a
travel addict on to work harder, makecareer progress, and
graduate on time, it’s the promise that doing so will only lead to more ability
and means to travel. Travel addicts are motivated to work harder in their day jobs because it means
they will have more funds to afford their addiction. They plan for retirement
because they know retirement means years and years of traveling the globe. They
are more responsible with their time and talents in order to maximize their
chances to indulge their passion. Being addicted to traveling is a great
motivation for you in a lot of your personal areas in life, and indulging in it
is a good way to stay focused on your passion.
2Travel Addiction is All About Forward Thinking
If you constantly live in the past, you
aren’t a very good traveler. Those who are addicted to traveling are forward
thinking, because they are more focused on traveling again rather than reliving
past travels.
In a group setting, you can always spot those
who travel often from those who rarely travel. Those who travel often don’t
brag up their past escapades; they aren’t the first ones to tell you where
they’ve gone or done in the past. Instead they tend to focus on future goals
and where they want to go next or what is ahead in their life. People who
rarely travel tend to tell the same stories over and over, and fixate on
letting others know where they have been. They’re annoying and boring to be
around because they live in the past.
People who are travel addicts are not focused
on living in the past, but moving toward the future.
3Travel Addiction Gives You Something To Dream About
What good is life if you don’t have a dream
or passion to follow? Travel addicts can get through the rough patches in life
because they have ambition to go someplace new. When they’re stuck in the dead
of winter staring at a computer screen 40 hours a week, that computer screen
has a desktop picture of the next place they want to visit. They can stay
cheerful because they have hope and vision.
When you have a goal, no matter what
obstacles arise, you can figure out a way around them. Having visions for the
future also helps you to stay an interesting person. Have you ever met someone
who had no vision or plan in life? They’re boring and often times the least
satisfied people on the planet, even if they claim to be satisfied with where
they are at. Dream, be inspired, and be impassioned. Luckily traveling
frequently helps feed these cravings and keeps you dreaming.
4Travel Addiction Teaches You to Try New Things
People who are addicted to travel are often
addicted, or at least drawn, to new experiences and trying something outside
their comfort zone. This is
because the two often go hand in hand; you can’t love something that pushes you
to try new things unless you learn to also love trying something new. Travel
addicts are more willing to take risks than their counterparts.
In life, you will never stop needing to try
new things and to break out of your horizons in order to not be stagnant, be it
in your personal relationships, career, or spiritual development. When you
learn to embrace new things and thrive on new challenges, you’ll do better in
the rest of life as well. This is why people who are addicted to travel seem to
be living their life on a whole other level from the rest of the world.
5Travel Addiction Lowers Your Inhibitions
Surprisingly enough, there is a large
percentage of the population that fears things like public speaking or
confrontation or meeting new people. Traveling frequently puts you in these
circumstances quite frequently, and often in situations where you are not the
expert or the most knowledgeable person around. Travel addicts are better at
communicating in situations that demand confrontation, or speaking in front of
a crowd, or mingling with strangers at a party. The addiction to travel makes
you better at socializing in a variety of situations, and just better at
getting along with people in general. Getting along better with people in life
can help you in just about every aspect of life; once again, being addicted to
travel pays off!
6Travel Addiction Isn’t Boring
A healthy addiction to travel insures you
that your life won’t be mundane. You aren’t as likely to get stuck in a rut in
your personal life, or have a midlife career crisis, or become dissatisfied
with your life. Travel addicts tend to appreciate their life more because they
aren’t listless with routine and the same thing over and over.
They wake themselves up by seeing new places
and experiencing new cultures. If you don’t want to lead a boring life, and
want to learn how to see even the most mundane experiences as possible
adventures, travel often. And don’t we all love hanging out with the guy who
has something going on in his life? The guy who has great stories to tell and
is excited about his dreams and possibility in the future? You know who that
guy is- that guy is a travelaholic.
7Travel Addiction Makes You a Better Problem Solver
People who are addicted to traveling often
put themselves in situations where they can get a better perspective on their
life. Stepping away from the ordinary frequently means that your problems seem
smaller, and you can often gain enough added viewpoints that you see new ways
of solving your problems. Because you are no longer confined to a box, you
learn to think outside the box.
Travel addiction also helps you to think on
your feet as well. You think more quickly and become a problem solver because
you need to do so much planning in travel, as well as solve problems that arise
along the way. These kind of situations rarely happen someplace where you know
everything and everyone, so only those who regularly give into their travel
addiction understand this kind of critical thinking. If you want to be a better
person of thought, able to utilize logic to solve and overcome problems, and be
an innovative thinker, give into your addiction of travel.
8Travel Addiction Puts Things in Historical Context
More than just your own problem and story,
traveling frequently helps you understand the bigger picture of humanity. You
see the history of places, learn more about different things than are taught in
school, and learn more about the past. You can live out the history of places
you visit, which helps you to sympathise with people’s choices and the
decisions in the past.
You learn from other’s mistakes, and work
your imagination muscles in the process. Being addicted to traveling often
means you’ll learn more about the world than you would inside the classroom; it
adds depth to what you’ve read on pages, and gives life to the concepts and
theories that this world exists on.
9Travel Addiction Expands Your Vocabulary
There are tons of benefits of being able to
speak more than one language. For one, your appeal to future employees
increases dramatically, as well as your chances of landing a higher paying job
(which means more money for more travel funding). You also keep your brain in
shape, which helps decrease your chances of Alzheimer’s.
Not to mention you’re able to better
understand more people, which increases your friend network. One of the best
ways to learn a new language is by traveling. Cultural and language submersion
is the best way to learn a foreign language, and the easiest way to do this is
by traveling to new countries. Giving into your travel addiction is not only
good for your soul, it’s good for your mental health as well!
10Travel Addiction Fulfills Your Passions
For a true art lover, can you imagine the
incredible fulfilling delight they would have in seeing the works of Monet real
and up close at the Louve? Or for a wine connoisseur to watch the wine making
process at a vineyard in the south of France? Travel is rarely the only
addiction you have, but it makes a wonderful companion to your other interests
as well.
Travel addicts get to frequently pair up what
they love with experiencing it in different ways or unique aspects.
Snowboarders can not only go in their backyard, they can go conquer the Alps.
Musicians can not only play their own instrument, they can hear a concert at
the Sydney Opera House.
11Travel Addiction Improves Your Friendships
Not only does frequent traveling expand
your circles of friends, but it teaches you to be a better friend as well.
People who give into their traveling addiction are the best kind of friends to
have, because not only are they rarely boring, but they also know how to keep
in touch.
Their gifts come from all over the world, and
they are better at accepting people for where they are at in life and for who
they are. Plus they like traveling alone and with people, so you’re more likely
to get invited for a friend reunion someplace awesome with a friend who
indulges in her travel desires than with a friend who isn’t addicted to
traveling.
12Travel Addiction Teaches Acceptance
Want to be a more gracious person? Go ahead
and give into that urge to travel. When you travel often, you experience a host
of different cultures and thinking than your own. Travel addicts love
experiencing and sharing in other’s lives and cultures, and appreciate the
differences rather than positioning themselves in a place of higher importance
or righteousness. You can accept others because you understand them better, and
just appreciate their input on life. Even if you disagree with a cultural
viewpoint, travel addicts know how to be polite and kind.
13Travel Addiction Indulges Your Senses
People who are addicted to travel will get
to experience more wonderful food, wine, chocolate, and delicacies than you
will ever be able to try just staying in your own area. Trying the authentic
dishes in each country allows you to experience and try spices you’ve never
tasted before, and flavors that are completely new. Who knows? Your favorite
flavor in the entire world might be one you haven’t even tried yet!
Besides just the culinary satisfaction of
traveling, travel addicts get to hear new sounds, experience different smells,
and stretch their senses by trying new things first hand. Stretching your
sensory experiences is just as important when you’re an adult as when you’re a
newborn, but too often it isn’t given the same priority. Your mind needs the
exercise of new stimulation in order to both properly function as well as properly
relax. People who are addicted to travel and travel a lot are better balanced,
healthier individuals just on this level alone.
14Travel Addiction Leaves More of Yourself to Give
If you want to influence this world for
good, to reach your true potential, you need to be balanced. You need to be
rested and active, you need to have purpose and hope, and be a better friend.
You need to experience much and learn more. You need to understand others as
well as yourself.
All of these things are exercised by
traveling. Travel addicts are some of the best philanthropists in the world,
because they have all of these elements, and exercise them all constantly. If
you want to better the world, travel as much as you can. What seems a selfish
endeavor can actually be both the best blessing to you as well as the best gift
you can give to others.
15Travel Addiction Allows You to Be You
The worst thing you can be in this world is
someone other than who you are. There are entire books and religions across the
world cultivating the idea that we are created as unique beings with a purpose,
and that we are best utilized by being true to who we are made to be. If you
are created with a passion to travel, the best thing you can do is to give into
that addiction, and to feed it with more travel. Who’s to say who you won’t
influence, help, or shape through your travels? You have a better chance of
being help to this world and others if you are who you are created to be. If
you were made to travel, then by all means, travel on.
If this list resonates with you and you’re
feeling the need to indulge your travel addiction, go to Trekeffect to start
planning your next trip to wherever the road may take you!
