The Impact of an Airline Seat: Three Tips to Leverage a Departure
It felt like change would never happen. Oh, how long it’s been since exploring!?You wondered whether new experiences would ever come again! Yes! You’re traveling now, finally leaving!
While flopped down in an airline seat a feeling of departure enters the?body. The frenetic rush slowly subsides. Ah, "I’m on my way.”?????
A Departure points to a Beginning.?
We’re leaving a known life for a different experience.?
Travel always creates space for growth.
A Departure points to a Beginning.?
Daily responsibilities are delegated to others. The day-to-day demands are excitedly “on hold”.?You finish what has to be done to Begin.
To begin means welcoming?new ideas, feelings and experiences, a growth mindset.?Whether we’re traveling on a journey or starting a new project (with a different team, expectations, outcomes)...?
How do you welcome new experiences, even if uncomfortable??How do you leverage an opportunity and garner life-changing insights??
Here are three tip to leverage, aka, benefit from a Departure:
1. Intention
Let’s?revisit that slightly uncomfortable airline seat. The seatbelt is pinched low across your waist.You’re stuck in a forced pause. Before arranging headphones take a few breaths, close your eyes and consider?“What’s most important about this next journey?”. Setting an intention hugely impacts the outcome.??
2. Know Yourself
Not too long ago when trekking Mont Blanc I?found myself feeling impatient. While on?the well-trodden path, about to cross a gentle stream, I waited and waited and waited. The other?trekkers were taking “forever”. Yet the sound of the water heading downward awoke me. Here was a chance to learn patience. I would exercise graciousness with the other (slower) hikers. Patient and graceful… that was how I wanted to?“show up”.??
Traveling lets you be who you want to be out in the world, untethered from community and work expectations.?Starting a new?project or entering a new stage in life offers a similar newness, ripe with?possibilities.?Ask,?“How do I want to show up – everyday?”
3. Alignment
When we cultivate self-awareness at a deeper level and identify what matters most, we’re able to align our actions and values.?To live aligned translates to flourishing On The Spirit Road far away or near at home.
Best-selling author and father of Positive?Psychology, Martin Seligman, offers us a well-being model, PERMA, to help us align and fulfill our?goals*:
P?= Positive Emotion: optimism, pleasure, enjoyment, feeling good?
E?= Engagement: flow aka time just passes by unnoticed
R?= Relationships: social connections, love,?intimacy, physical and?emotional interaction
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M?= Meaning: having a?purpose
A?= Accomplishment: ambition, realistic goals, pride in yourself?
Based on PERMA,?when traveling in new directions…
The next time we say?goodbye, the next time we depart, realize the opportunities ahead.
A Goodbye is a Beginning.
Traveling inherently reflects a Departure and a deliberate attempt to grow and begin anew.??At Spirit Road Travel we are with you for the entire journey, goodbye, hello, goodbye, hello.?
*Information about PERMA and Martin Seligman is from the Search?Inside Yourself (#SIYGlobal) curriculum on motivation, a domain of Emotional Intelligence.
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“You know, even when we leave a place, we leave our memories there and they will represent us in our absence! So, in reality, we will always continue to be in every place we depart!” - ?Mehmet Murat ildan
“Not all those who wander are lost.” – J.R.R Tolkien
On the contrary, you already know the right direction even if it sometimes doesn’t feel that way. It’s about becoming friends with your soul, your spirit, your intuitive self.
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Wishing you happy, even life-changing Departures,
Amy S. Quinn, Spirit Road Travel
Guiding Women Executives 45+ to Lead with Intuition and Confidence While Navigating High-Stakes Decisions—Using Intuitive Access to Create Immediate Connection and Transformative Insights l Keynote Speaker | She/her |
2 年Oh, I LOVED this, Amy Quinn! My favotie point: Savor progress and your?accomplishments. Receive the?goodness. Celebrate. I want to do that every day!!! I had a frustrating situation today but I did not engage in the frustration. I stayed calm. I did eat gourmet marshmallows as part of my strategy to stay calm but that's okay. This time, anyway. But I also watched as I solved one problem after another (within about a 30-minute period) and I enjoyed my ability to do that. I adapated!! So -- thank you!
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2 年I am inspired to start a new ritual as I travel Amy Quinn. Thank you. This is my favorite: Connect with those around you, whether friend or stranger. Be curious; I do LOVE a nice stranger.
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2 年The concept of living aligned resonates deeply with me Amy Quinn. And that pertains to daily living, my marketing and my traveling :-)