WOW - 4 TRAVEL TIPS FOR 2023

 Written By: Chip Rudolph ~ 3/27/2023

Vacations and travel are meant to help you recharge, rejuvenate, and relax. They are also meant to teach lessons, visualize sights, and enhance our perspective.

Summer is on the horizon. It is time to plan vacations and travel. Vacations are meant to help with:

• A change of pace or scenery
• Escaping thoughts of work
• Relaxation and new adventures

Here are 4 ideas to consider when planning your summer getaways.

1. Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer.
   a.) As you spend money on airfare, hotels, attractions, etc. in a new environment, there are always things to learn and enrich your life.
   
   b.) Returning from such a trip fills you with memories, knowledge, and understanding of different people and cultures.
   
   c.) You will usually gain much more than what you have spent.
   
   
2. It is better to see something once than to talk about it a thousand times.
   a.) Often a discussion takes place about the wonders of a certain city, artifacts, attractions, or other exciting adventures.
   
   b.) Such discussions might repeat over and over again. Seeing it once for yourself is far superior to anything that might be said.
   
   c.) The Grand Canyon is a perfect example. All the things that have been said, all the enthusiastic descriptions, and all mentions of this national landmark will pale in comparison to being there to see it in person.
   
   
3. We travel, not to escape life, but for life not to escape us.
   a.) From sea to shining sea, there is much to learn, see, visit, experience, and explore.
   
   b.) We sometimes say ‘we want to escape our lives.’ What we really mean is that we want to get away from the monotony of our daily life.
   
   c.) Travel allows us to absorb everything around us so that we do not miss it. That is difficult to do if we do not periodically leave our daily life to enjoy the other offerings.
   
   
4. The world is a book. Those who do not travel read only one page.
   a.) The world has much to offer, teach, and uncover. If we do not go out to explore these lessons, we learn only what is at our doorstep.
   
   b.) Books only provide a limited amount of information. Without experiencing it for ourselves, we cannot appreciate the true expanse that is out there.
   
   c.) Travel helps show us other choices, cultures, architecture, forms of nature, and ways of life.

From the Corner Home Office provides Words of Wisdom to help make wise decisions for those special plans.

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Written By: Chip Rudolph ~ 3/20/2023

Since ancient times, proverbs, adages, and oral history have provided WORDS OF WISDOM from which we all might learn valuable lessons. This time of year many often create budgeting tactics in hopes of a successful new year. FROM THE CORNER HOME OFFICE presents a guide for preparing 2023 budgets.

A BUDGET IS MERELY A PLAN. PLANS CHANGE ON A REGULAR BASIS
A budget can be created in several arenas:

• MONEY FOR SPENDING OR SAVING
• TIME
• FOOD OR MEAL PLANNING
• ACTIVITIES

There is a better possibility for success by planning ahead. Being prepared is often a key factor in accomplishing goals. Meeting the future by “the seat of your pants” does not work well.

A BUDGET IS TELLING YOUR MONEY WHERE TO GO INSTEAD OF WONDERING WHERE IT WENT

When you plan in advance how to spend or where to save your money, you are taking control of the financial aspect of your life. This ensures that wisdom and discipline will prevail.

JUST BECAUSE YOU ARE DOING MORE DOES NOT MEAN YOU ARE GETTING MORE DONE

Time can disappear very quickly. It keeps moving and waits for no one. Realistically thinking about how to use time wisely helps things to get done and deadlines to be met.

IT IS HEALTH THAT IS THE REAL WEALTH, NOT PIECES OF GOLD AND SILVER

Meal planning can make or break the quality of life for a family. By budgeting for nutritious meals, family members then travel the road to good health.

NO ONE PLANS TO FAIL - THEY FAIL TO PLAN

Scheduling activities and making advance plans will prevent those activities from becoming absent from the family calendar. Preparation provides a balance of the desired activities in each person’s life.

Remember to budget or plan the component parts of life to be successful. Quality of life will be balanced and each family member will thrive.

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Written by Elisa Hawkinson ~ 3/13/2023

Have you realized you were never taught the skills you needed to succeed in becoming an adult, a spouse, a parent, a career person, let alone how to juggle all that?

Successful Adulting Areas

Are you sensing your own personal care needs attention? Are organizational skills challenging your personal and business life? Are lapses in communication skills showing some rough edges? Then, there are questions to be asked, such as:

• How well are you balancing your personal time?
• How do you multi-task (now that we know there’s no such thing as multi-tasking)?
• Why do others have to be prompted to do the obvious?

Often, life just seems to crash in on us and all we want to do is curl up in a fetal position full of stress. Fortunately, there is more support as we recognize and admit we could use help. But it requires getting off the hamster wheel and investing time in ourselves.

What Did Your Parents Teach You?

Think about what you were taught. Most likely it was what they were taught by their parents and went even farther back generationally. For instance, you may have learned to cut the turkey’s tail off before roasting and it comes out years later that your great grandma did that because the pan she had was too small. So that is what she taught her daughter to do even though pans are now larger and so on.

Yesterday and Now

As a grandmother today, I am learning about new vegetables to prepare and eat that never graced a table I sat down to. I never learned how to grow them, let alone pronounce them. The list goes on. Disposable diapers were new to my generation. We were taught to wait to potty train until the child was ready. Now I learn that we were conditioned to keep buying diapers much longer than needed. Pediatricians now recommend starting potty training at 18 months. The same goes with feeding a baby. Teaching baby self-feeding blew me away. My grandson was served pieces of fruit and vegetables and chicken well before I could believe it. I served mashed food, that I prepared, not store-bought in bottles, one spoon at a time while he sat in a highchair. My little grandson eats all varieties of food beautifully by himself. The changes blow my mind! We won’t even go into the plethora of new items at baby showers that are now needed for raising a baby.

Now, What Do I Do?

Today, there are so many business coaches, speaking coaches, sales coaches, and self-help books. There are endless resources available to succeed in targeting contentment in life and profit in business.

I recommend you D.E.C.I.D.E.

• Decide to invest in yourself by setting a target to reach the goal you are shooting for. Did you clarify, plan steps, and set your target when making your decision? This is important or you don’t know what to aim for.
• Establish new habits for yourself and your household. Regularly stay in habit mode to reach your targets (for spiritual, physical, professional, relational, intellectual, and recreational goals). That may sound like a lot to juggle, and that is life in the 21st Century.
• Choose to be content and at peace in your life today and well into the future by learning how to ‘adult’ well.
• Invest valuable time strategically to reach your goals. Investing time online won’t help you succeed as quickly as taking action with the resources I encourage you to employ.
• Determine to act! No putting this on your trophy shelf of “Gonna,” “Shoulda,” “Woulda.” There’s no more room there!
• Emotional Intelligence is the ‘adulting’ skill that balances mindfulness with compassion; first internally and then sharing with others. Recall, you can’t share what you don’t have.

If you wish to experience personal life navigation coaching through tools, exercises, and new habits that guide you toward calm, clarity, and success, join me for private sessions or with others attending my courses at LifeSkills Academy.

All LifeSkills Academy educators are business professionals, some with academic backgrounds, and all have proven success in the world of commerce.

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