Why People Never or Rarely Travel (Even Though It’s Their Dream)
If you didn’t have to worry about money, what would you do?
Chances are you mentioned travel in your response. I’m surprised how many people I’ve seen respond with “travel the world.” But it absolutely saddens me how most of these people will do nothing to work towards this goal and will only have traveled modestly by the time they die.
To them, it’s a distant, unattainable dream that never gets fulfilled.
I’m a personal finance junkie myself and know all about the power of compound interest but even I don’t want to wait until I’m old before I start enjoying life and completing bucket list items. It’s not even guaranteed you’ll live until retirement. Travel is a metaphor for every life goal in your life that you hold off, never to accomplish it, until you’re lying with regret on your deathbed. I’m not going to let that happen to you. I’m going to help you achieve those dreams.
The good news is that there are young people on social media with no money or connections who have made traveling the world for a living a reality. We can find out what they differently and learn from them…
I’m not a superhuman who has managed to seize life by the balls and travel around the world. I’m also chickened out traveling once upon a time.
There was a time a couple years ago, where I was tempted (and desperate) to take a gap year or month volunteering at a farm in California through WWOOF just to travel there. I was willing to spend most of my days working for free on a farm for mediocre food and housing and the ability to experience California. I paid the $100 membership fee — applied to every host in the state– and no one responded.
But there were other opportunities. I could’ve traveled to Southeast Asia and lived for pennies on the dollar like a king. Why didn’t I?
In this podcast and article, I’m going to discuss why most people never follow through on their travel goals, the excuses holding people back from travel that are never addressed and aren’t true, and how to live your dreams.
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2 Myths About Travel that Travel Bloggers Are Great At Busting
Travel bloggers have posted extensively debunking common excuses for not traveling.
This is the first stage of believing that long, better, and more affordable travel is possible.
Most people don’t ever move past this stage because they were never given this information and don’t believe it’s possible. I was fortunate enough to stumble across this information but many never do.
Unfortunately, many people still never take the next step after seeing evidence for how all these excuses aren’t true. We’ll address some of their counter-excuses later on.
But ultimately, you have to be honest with yourself and ask if you’re psychologically coming up with false reason to not face some emotion or discomfort. But, in general, this is the stage where many non-believers are converted into first time travel hackers.
I’m going to address these limiting beliefs but I’ll skim through them quickly because the top travel bloggers out there have covered them well already.
I’m more focused on the next section, which is the second stage of that determines whether you live your travel dreams or stay in silent desperation.