Overcoming The 7 Major Obstacles To Traveling The World

In order for me to take my career break in , I had to overcome the obstacles he covers in the book. This breadth is great because often people think only those without extra responsibilities a. So, if you are a married middle-income couple with a house, pets, and maybe kids — be prepared, he will debunk your excuses. I will give you a small spoiler, the first obstacle is all about you and your relationship with your job.

If you dream of a career break from your job, this will help you look at it logically and start preparing for how you can break from your traditional career. Notice that I used the word break — as in pause. I say this because he provides you with tips to come back to your career after your travels.

A nd just imagine reading it on your commute to work as you are plotting your escape. Where can you find Anil Polat? Anil travels practically full time and works freelance while also keeping one of my favorite travel blogs, www. His background is really as a tech geek; he spent 6 years as a security specialist hacker — the good kind. Thanks to this background I find that he offers some of the best tech and security travel advice out there on the web.

How I Overcame Obstacles to Travel the World

If you want to know about security and traveling, check out his other sites — TechGuideForTravel. Reading this really rang true! I am planning to take a career break in 6 months or so and it is hard weighing up the pros and cons. I will have to buy Seven Major Obstacles now, it looks very interesting.

Thank you for sharing this. Hi Lucy — good luck on breaking out of convention and planning a career break! It will be such a growing experience. I did a 2 year career travel break and it was completely worth it. However I certainly remember all of the anxiety I dealt with back in the planning stages. I only wished that there were things like ebooks and the wealth of web resources that are out there now. Thank you so much for reviewing my ebook!

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Eventually other details — like studying Spanish once I identified I was going to travel throughout South America , visas, immunizations, travel guides, where to go and what to bring — all became important as well. Saving up money has always been a challenge for me. Up until that point, I had never saved up a significant amount of money in my life.

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However, equipped with a specific goal, a savings plan, and the determination to make it happen, I can tell you from experience, it can be done. Not only did I have to pay off my debt, I also needed to create a budget for the trip, so I spent some time identifying where I was going to travel to. I initially decided on South America, Australia and New Zealand I ultimately ended up staying in South America the entire time , so I needed research and estimate how much I would need on a monthly basis to travel comfortably.

Comfortably for me meaning hostels and low to mid-priced dining, with flexibility to still do more expensive things like kite surfing. I also researched the costs of each of the major flights I had to take, visas, immunizations, and any other large expenses. And that was just to finance the trip! I had to create another plan entirely to pay off my debt. During the time between that first summer backpacking through Europe in and the trip I finally took solo during and , I waited and waited to meet someone who wanted to do the same thing. Unfortunately, that person never showed up.

I realized that part of making this dream trip a success was preparing to travel alone if it came down to that.

Overcoming the 7 Obstacles to Traveling the World

But because the idea made me uncomfortable, I had to mentally, emotionally, and physically prepare myself to overcome it. I challenged myself to find things that I could do within the eighteen months leading up to my trip that would help me overcome my fear of traveling alone. Initially, I did small things like going out to lunch alone. I then gradually progressed into going out to dinner alone.

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Just seven months before the day I was scheduled to quit my job, while on a trip to Costa Rica with some friends, I unexpectedly extended my trip by one additional week while everyone else went home. I was finally able to travel alone! All of us have our excuses, fears, and challenges in life.

But once we realize that what we want in life is more important to us than any excuse we may make or any fear we may have or any challenge we may face, we will do anything we have to do in order to bridge that gap between dreaming our dreams and living our dreams. And this magic is what makes the seemingly impossible, possible. I challenge you to do just one thing today that will move you one step closer to living your dream. So how do we bridge the gap? The shift for me finally came when I made the decision to stop waiting and decided to just do it.

Making the decision to finally stop waiting was the best decision I ever made. When I committed myself to finally taking that trip in , I had a comfortable salary, company car, and a nice expense account.

When we really want something in life, we have to go after it. Eighteen-months may seem like a long time to wait; however, I had one very large challenge to overcome, my financial situation. The good thing was I had eighteen long months ahead of me to figure it out.

When we commit to a goal or establish a clear objective in our mind, life sort of helps us uncover ways to achieve it. These ideas soon evolved into a plan of action. When I finally committed myself to going on the trip, alone if necessary, I was honestly still hopeful during those eighteen months of planning that I would meet someone to go with me.

Then the big challenge came along!

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