To change the "I'm too poor to travel" Mindset and Say Yes to Travel

To change the "I'm too poor to travel" Mindset and Say Yes to Travel -

"Your advice is great if you are middle class, are your parents give money or you are from the west. your website can never work for me. I am too poor to travel. This advice is only for privileged people. "

I encounter these thoughts often, and after I have not heard it lately two recently published articles about Thrillist and Thought catalog.

Each trip naysayer believes their situation is special in that they can not manage what someone else did for reason X, Y or Z. and it's not just travel. We all excuses why we can not do anything we want. "The gym is too far away." "Just one more cookie will not hurt." "I'm not big enough to play basketball." We believe that we will never achieve that great thing that we want, because we the a missing secret sauce to make it happen.

When it comes to traveling, people think what holds her back is money. Imagine they can not travel because, unlike me, they can not tap the Bank of Mom and Dad, are burdened by their debt, and just assume I'm just happy and special.

People with this you think remember about Bob who dismiss this site a few years ago because he did not believe that I could travel the world without parental assistance. People like Bob shoot the messenger because it allows them to ignore the message and keep their worldview unchallenged.

By faith that everyone else is special, unique, or rich they put a psychological barrier, which they ignore all the reasons can why travel is possible.

Nothing prevents them about their situation because traveling other than its own mentality.

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Millions of people from all walks of life, circumstances and age groups a way to travel. When I started at the age of 25 years traveling, I believed that I was doing something sophisticated and unique. Then, when I stood in the street and saw 18-year-old English children in a similar adventure aboard, I realized I was not so special as I thought. This realization made travel really seem much easier and is more accessible, because if they could make it happen, someone might older and with more experience to manage them.

I understand that it is some request for money to travel. There is a limit to how cheap it can be, and how many free flights you can earn. There are always circumstances such as health, visa issues, debt, or family, keep someone off the street. Not every can (or wants) to travel the world.

But my experience is what keeps the vast majority of people at home is not money, but mentality. It is the false belief that their circumstances are different and all others traveling the money or privilege she does not have. They have bought into the belief that traveling is a luxury for those with means and, if you are on the inside, you will never be able to make it happen. Everyone and everything else, what else tells them dismissed as "too easy" or "too good to be true."

But let me tell everyone who the "I'm too poor / Unspecial etc. believes travel" mentality. They are not

If you really want to travel, you will find a way. For some, it is more effort and time (maybe years), but you can do.

When you wake up today and say, "I am traveling to poor," or "I can not because of reason X", you will never find ways to start traveling. You will only see roadblocks. You only see the reasons why you can not travel - invoices, flights, car payments, debt, family and more. You will never look over these obstacles and wondering "How can I overcome these obstacles as the other people?" The only difference between the on the road and those who are not on it that kept them say 'yes', instead of traveling from "I can not."

Wake up today and say, "Yes, I can also go" and start looking for what you can do now to achieve that. Start small. Each yes builds on itself and on the one before it. Check out the day-to-day spending. How much would you save if you buy a Brita rather than a daily bottle of water, was Starbucks, more cooked by your own food or less drunk? What if you gave up cable? Downgraded your cell phone plan? Went to work? Sold your unneeded stuff on eBay?

find ways to supplement your income by becoming a local guide or Uber driver or renting your spare room or couch on Airbnb. Become a house sitter. Start to collect frequent flyer miles. Look overseas for work (it's easy).

Starting small gives you small victories that will help to slowly realize it can do. The more wins you have, the more you go on.

When I was planning my first trip, I cooked more for the first time and drank less. Then I gave go to the movies upwards. Then I sold my things and a roommate found. Then I found ways to save car-share to gas.

built Every step of the past, and I have more confidence in my abilities. I woke up every morning I said to myself: ". I can do this"

When I say started, I have a habit and continuous cycle that keeps my focus to travel and always in my reach. After years of doing this, I only see opportunity. I recently read The force of habit , the power of faith to change in habits. People who did not believe something could never changed their habits. They would diet, trying to get sober, or exercise more, but it would never work. they could, however, if they thought to change, if they find themselves part of a community that supports them, that is when the mental shift occurred and the new way of thinking took over.

I met people on the street have to earn traveled to minimum wage. You have achieved it because they woke up every day and wondered: "What can I do today that I get to be one step closer to the road" It is easy to say, "Well, I make $ 9.75 per hour and have a child," but Michael was working on minimum wage and found a way. The lower income, the longer it will take, enough to save, to travel, but more does not mean never.

If you do not believe you can travel anywhere.

You only need to change that keeps you from your goals and start looking for ways the mentality, no matter how small, you begin your journey to live dreams.

"I'm too poor to travel," a belief that causes many lack the confidence to believe travel is possible. Buy into the media hype that it's just too good to be true. It's simple, we think travelers are special and that my advice does not apply to you. But I pay my own way: I worked abroad keep my journey started, my parents never helped me, and I still have student loan debt. I knew nothing when I travel started. I had to figure it out along the way.

So have dozens of readers of this page, which also found a way, in spite of many obstacles.

Not everyone will be able to travel, and I understand that. I'm not talking about with circumstances such as poor health, with sick parents or massive credit card debt. I speak of the middle majority. I've met people from all walks of life on the road and know that traveling is not just for the rich, , it is for everyone .

If you want to travel more, you can believe. I know you can. I know there is not need to be expensive. I believe in you. So do not stop saying and start to find all the ways to say yes and make your travel dreams come true

The editorial 20:11 .: Note I have received some feedback that I want to address. I'm not saying if you close your eyes and say: "I believe," you find yourself magically in a faraway land. It is not so. There are many good reasons why people can never go travel, no matter how much they "believe". This article is about to change to get people a setting that try saying many stops to find a way to travel. Many people, even if they can go traveling, do not even try, and this article was meant to push people to at least try.

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