THE WANDERLUSTERS MIND PODCAST

Abby Lewtas 28/7/18 Abby Lewtas 28/7/18

Are you glorifying your travel memories?

How do you look back on your travel memories? The common thread is that you remember the good times. Most of the time, you forget the rest. The seemingly ‘bad’ and ‘challenging’ times turn into moments of ‘overcoming challenges’ and you look upon these with a positive outlook. On occasions I believe you glorify these memories. Making these memories seem even more amazing than they actually were, attaching the strongest and most amazing emotions to them.

The unrealistic stories and emotions we connect to travel to make it seem 'better' than where our life is at right now!

“Never let your feelings get in the way of seeing things as they truely are.”

How do you look back on your travel memories?

The common thread is that you remember the good times. Most of the time, you forget the rest. The seemingly ‘bad’ and ‘challenging’ times turn into moments of ‘overcoming challenges’ and you look upon these with a positive outlook.

On occasions I believe you glorify these memories. Making these memories seem even more amazing than they actually were, attaching the strongest and most amazing emotions to them.

The reason is this is important to RECOGNISE is that there are some instances, such as Reverse Culture Shock, experiencing Post Travel Blues or your in a time where your unable to travel but you want to...maybe its a stage of life that your in so it can be unhealthy to look at our memories this way. Making us feel worse about our present situation.

Thinking of travels or any situations for that matter, can lead to “glorification” to the point we envy our past.

SO...Perhaps nothing good and nothing bad?I believe that in life you experience emotions 50% what you label ‘positive’ and 50% what you label ‘negative.’

The opposite is also true. You can also dramatise the negativity of a situation. Stating how awful and horrible it was and deep diving into these emotions. Painting this time in a far worse light than it actually was

It's up to you how you see a situation, look at what you gained from it? The challenge that you faced, the wonderful time that you had. Just don't over glorify it and make it something that it wasn't. Especially if your working through a tough stage of your life, it will only make things more challenging for you.

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Kate Williams - Inspired by the world to build a thriving wellness business.

Kate left New Zealand at 20 years old to study the world instead of going to university. What she learned was something that school could never teach, travel opened her eyes to a whole new way of seeing life. At 25 years old, Kate found herself (on the Gold Coast) booking a last minute, one way ticket to Melbourne, triggered by what she claims to be a 'quarter life crisis' on the search to find a "good" job. After a year or so in the corporate world, feeling like a square peg in a round hole, Kate set off on an adventure again. Kate has not moved home to New Zealand but knows how it feels to move into many different situations. Now residing in Torquay, VIC, she has found a way to feel at home and has since created a business, Retreat Yourself Box, designed to encourage and inspire people to lead fulfilled lives.

Kate set out to study the world, after continually questioning the status quo she now runs her thriving wellness business 'Retreat Yourself.'

About Kate

At 25 years old, Kate found herself (on the Gold Coast) booking a last minute, one way ticket to Melbourne, triggered by what she claims to be a 'quarter life crisis' on the search to find a "good" job. After a year or so in the corporate world, feeling like a square peg in a round hole, Kate set off on an adventure again.

Kate has not moved home to New Zealand but knows how it feels to move into many different situations. Now residing in Torquay, VIC, she has found a way to feel at home and has since created a business, Retreat Yourself Box, designed to encourage and inspire people to lead fulfilled lives.

“Why do I want to ‘get the house’ and ‘get the car’ and I had to dig a little deeper to overcome the pressure I felt.”

— Kate Williams

When coming home...

Emotions Kate faced - Hard and challenging to fit back in but used this motivation to fuel her next steps and make a change in the world.
Biggest stress - Worried about what she was going to do with herself in her career.
How Kate supported herself - Saw a life coach, spoke with family and took small steps to what she wanted to be doing.
How Kate used her mindset - set small goals to a bigger vision and supported her to dig a little deeper.
3 Lessons learned from travel and reverse culture shock

People are all the same, no matter your background, we all want to be loved we all want to be accepted.
You can do anything you put your mind to.
Ive learned to seek out adventure and excitement and finding adventure in everyday.

Advise to herself for returning home - Don't worry about whats ahead, don't stress about what you think you 'should' be doing. Look inside and take small steps to your bigger goals. Do things that make you feel alive.

“One of the biggest things that travel has taught me is that people all over the world, no matter where you’re from or what your background is or where you live, we’re all the same. We’re all the same on the inside we’re all on the search for the same thing. We all want to be accepted we all want to be loved.”

— Kate Williams

Habits to keep after your travels.

When we travel we start to lean in and embrace powerful new habits. Sometimes they come naturally and go along with the mood of our journey, other times there is no choice but to be a little more courageous. Yet sometimes when we return home and leave our travels behind we also leave some incredible habits that will serve us greatly in our day to day lives. As we switch from travel mode to everyday life mode think about how you can carry forward and embody these amazing habits into your everyday life.

9 habits that we develop on our travels but sometimes forget to apply when we return home.

“If you want to make a remarkable change in your life, change your habits.”

9 habits to keep after your

Spontaneously trying new thing.
Being curious to learn new things.
Getting out of your comfort zone.
Be adventurous.
Keep it minimal.
Awareness of your surrounds.
Getting a good deal.
Making new friends.
Going wiht the flow.

Travis Barton - Bartending in California to travel, adventure and life coaching as a global citizen.

Travis Barton is an expert at taking people who want to be extraordinary to epic new heights, through what he calls, adventurous coaching for extraordinary people. Travis has personally worked with a variety of people one on one, from executives and CEO's, to athletes and actors, to other coaches and entrepreneurs, supporting and challenging them in a powerful space to move passionately toward their dreams and goals, holding them at their highest self, creating space for real life changing magic to happen.

Travis began breaking down the social pressures through culture, travel and adventure and stepped into becoming citizen of the world.

About Travis

Travis Barton is an expert at taking people who want to be extraordinary to epic new heights, through what he calls, adventurous coaching for extraordinary people.

Travis has personally worked with a variety of people one on one, from executives and CEO's, to athletes and actors, to other coaches and entrepreneurs, supporting and challenging them in a powerful space to move passionately toward their dreams and goals, holding them at their highest self, creating space for real life changing magic to happen.

“The beautiful life that your imagining that adventurous life that you have in your heart, that is on the other side of your fear.”

— Travis Barton

When coming home...

Emotions Travis expects to face when he returns home - Knows that this is where the lessons will come. Curious to see what will happen but feels connected to his new home. Exciting.
How Travis maximises his mindset - Building courage like a warrior. Being conscious of your fears and how they are holding you back. Take responsibility for your life and your mind.
3 most important lessons that travel has taught you.

Step and be open to change....You're never stuck. "If you do not change as you go, you will not arrive at yourself."
Have an open mind.
Dont ask what you can make money at....ask yourself what would you do it happiness paid the bills then figure out how to make money doing that.

Advise for those wanting to not die with un-lived adventure inside them. - Ask yourself what is the big question that you are going to ask on your death bed, what is the answer that you want to hear to those questions? Choose to live in alinement with those answers not tomorrow but today.

“An adventure is not when everything is all good. An adventure is when things go to crap and how you choose to respond in the face of that.”

— Travis Barton

Ways to move through Reverse Culture and Re-Entry shock

Its that common feeling so many face, after returning home from the trip of a lifetime you arrive back home and, as if in a blink of an eye, it feels like your entire life has changed. Initially there is that excitement phase of seeing family and friends moves pretty fast and all of a sudden you thinking to yourself ‘what next?’ For sure everyone around you is asking ‘so, what are you going to do now?’

6 common things people to do help them move through reverse culture and re entry shock.

“Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.”

— Ibn Battuta

Ways to cope with moving home.

Its that common feeling so many face, after returning home from the trip of a lifetime you arrive back home and, as if in a blink of an eye, it feels like your entire life has changed.

Initially there is that excitement phase of seeing family and friends moves pretty fast and all of a sudden you thinking to yourself ‘what next?’ For sure everyone around you is asking ‘so, what are you going to do now?’

After working with and speaking to travellers who had experienced this feeling of Reverse Culture shock, I found a common theme of things they do to integrate back into their home country. Of course with everything, there are pros and cons, take what you like and leave the rest. The 6 most common things, that I have found, people use to move through reverse culture shock are.

6 things you can do to move through reverse culture and re-entry shock

Plan the next big trip.
Get back into routine.
Talk to family and friends.
Get involved with the community and attending events.
Move cities.
Seeking professional help

Mindset - Why its important for travellers.

Mindset is a ‘way of thinking’ and opinions. This way of thinking predetermines your response to and interpretation of situations. How you perceive things.Travelling exposes you to an extensive array situations, people and circumstances that helps you to broaden your way of thinking and approach life with a more open mindset.

Make a choice to achieve something, commit and stay consistent and manifest your success by focussing on your mind.

“Change the way you look at things and the way you look at things change.”

— Wayne Dyer

What is Mindset?

Mindset is a ‘way of thinking’ and opinions. This way of thinking predetermines your response to and interpretation of situations. How you perceive things.

Travelling exposes you to an extensive array situations, people and circumstances that helps you to broaden your way of thinking and approach life with a more open mindset.

Upon returning home its easy to see how much you have changed as many of those around you still have a similar mindset to your old one.

But it can also be difficult if you experience the reverse culture shock, to build a mindset that really supports you through the transition and thats what Im going to be talking about today.

3 steps to creating your mindset

Make a choice of achieve something (a goal) and get clear about what that looks like for you.
Commit and stay consistent.
Manifest your success by focusing your mind.