19 quotes found
“I knew I could always earn money from a job. What I didnt know was could I extend the dream of writing beyond my trip?”
“I knew I could always earn money from a job. What I didn’t know was could I extend the dream of writing beyond my trip?”
“Then Id go home, return to a pattern of worry, unable to tap the surrender core to travels inspiration. What was different?”
“Then I’d go home, return to a pattern of worry, unable to tap the surrender core to travel’s inspiration. What was different?”
“Because travel was an area of my life where I felt most vital, I wanted to continue to invest in that, too. I had quit a full time job, drained my retirement account to invest in a long-held dream,...”
“No matter. I was single, no children, a handful of plants and at 39, young enough to regroup. If I hit ground before I finished building my wings, I would not take anyone with me.”
“Putting the dream in motion involved significant personal downsizing, moving three times to trim housing expenses and continuing to freelance. I sold one piece to The New York Times Magazine, many ...”
“Ten years ago I wondered, How does one travel around the world? How does one step out of a well-established life to follow the dream? Ive answered those questions. But now new ones emerge.”
“In the aftermath of the attacks on the United States that included chaotic overall of airline security and the exploding tensions in Nepal, friends thought it ill-advised for me to board a flight...”
“In 2006 I had begun the discernment process for locating my rightful geographic home. By the time my corporate pink slip arrived I had spent two years researching and taking recon trips to five dif...”
“The cruise was the conduit for what would become my third book. While I was traveling and writing for ctnow.com, women across the United States and from the Caribbean emailed not to ask about my ge...”
“My post-cruise sabbatical would spark the idea for my first book, Cheaper Than Therapy: How to Keep Lifes Small Problems from Becoming Big Ones The Lesson of the Paper Clips. How? In my data entry...”
“Wandering is not limited to geography. Also an altered state of consciousness, it allows a disembodied self to drift on currents of collective awareness with minimal attachment to the physical worl...”
“During those days of whirling about the globe, I had an epiphany: travel was the only area of my life where I had no expectations. I anticipated nothing while fully engaging each moment. What bred ...”
“What would happen if, once back home, I stayed open to possibilities rather than attach to specific outcomes? What if I dreaded no potential storms? Ruminated over no past transgression? I knew how...”
“Once back home I would adjust my lens to the resolution through which I perceived the people and provinces of the globe. My daily commute, the supermarket check out line, neighborhood walks, pedest...”
“The answer is neither job, nor paycheck; it is authentic, holistic work born from states of awareness and being. Through the coalescence of joy, wonder, enthusiasm, appreciation, experimentation, p...”
“Ten years ago I wondered, “How does one travel around the world? How does one step out of a well-established life to follow the dream?” I’ve answered those questions. But now new ones emerge.”
“In the aftermath of the attacks on the United States – that included chaotic overall of airline security – and the exploding tensions in Nepal, friends thought it ill-advised for me to board a flig...”
