Listen now | How travel helps us grow, builds confidence, and pushes us outside our comfort-zone
Good morning. Happy Monday Friends! Coach Kate here with another episode of the Exploration Hour for us all today. I typically host this space and Minute Explorations weekday mornings where we dive into ideas that matter together-- So, I've been on vacation the last few weeks, and I am excited to be back again and to host this space again with you all. We typically use this space to dive into ideas, quotes, literature, moments that affect us, make us think, and make the world around us deeper, better, and more full together. If that sounds like a space you want to be a part of, to listen to, or even contribute towards, give me a follow and let's create this space together.
So today, and even into this week, I thought we'd focus on travel, travel stories, travel perspectives, and even how travel influences us in our lives-- especially when we're open and ready for that influence. Since I just got back from my own travel, and letting the world influence my thoughts, my time, my goals, it is front and center of my mind so let's open this space to share and collaborate on what travel means to us here together today. If you are new to this space welcome, if you are back again welcome back. I am Coach Kate and I am so glad you are all here, so let's dive in and talk, all things travel this week with me.
To get us started today, a quote has been on my mind a lot these last few weeks, os I thought I would share it all with you here too in the hope it affects you, or inspires you, or if you have something to share about your own experiences with this quote, you feel ready to come up here and share it with us all today too. There was a quote I once read attributed to an anonymous author that makes me treasure these times I travel in my life so much, so I thought I would share it all with you all too. Here it is:
Travel is the one thing you can buy that makes you richer -- anonymous
So I've been immersed in Japan and South Korea these last few weeks and I have been thinking about this quote a LOT, mostly because the thing I realize where I am gaining that wealth the most-- is in confidence. I used to live in Japan a long time ago, and I loved my experiences there. I knew the language, I loved the food, the people, everything. I knew when I had children one day I would bring them back here so they would also fall in love with this country liek I did once too, and it has been a joy to see that unfold the last few weeks with my son.
So, on another episode in the future, I really want ot dive in to a really special concept with kids, something I never considered when I was young, but something that is so very special to me now. There is a really special connection you can form with your kids when you've mastered something as a kid or young adult, or even right now, and it doesn't have to be epic, it can be silly or insane, or a party trick even, but your mastery of it will always catch up with you. and when your kids come along later in your life, or even as they grow now, you can connect with them over it, and those are where some solid core memories form. You can set that foundation for those core memories now, by leaning into passions you have, or by even by traveling too, so stay tuned for a future episode about setting the foundation of core memories with our kids.
So I was super nervous to speak Japanese because it had been so long since I was here in Japan. But confidence isn't just uncovered. Confidence is't bought in a store, or revealed from some non playable character. Confidence is built, and I say built because it takes time and repetition and consistency to build it-- and also something else that many people don't openly admit or will tell you-- confidence is also built by failing, over and over again. By making mistakes, by making adjustments. Confidence is much like training for a race, or sticking to a diet. Or speaking Japanese a little bit every day or getting lost in a new city. Confidence is the opposite of perfection. And let me tell you, when I started speaking Japanese again, and let those mistakes happen, and kept adjusting, kept building, and kept on trying to understand, trying to push myself, it gave me so much confidence to keep that ball rolling and rolling too. The beautiful gift of confidence is that the more you build it, work towards it, and nurture it, and USE it without perfection, the more it also gives back to you. You build that trust you have in yourself . And trust in yourself is a gift.
So travel, makes you wealthier, builds your confidence and gives back to you in numerous ways. It offers you perspective, ideas, and ways to grow outside of your comfort-zone. I cannot tell you how many times I turned to my son this past trip, knowing I didn't know the answer to something, or what to do with my bags, or an address, or a train to take. And instead of letting that unknowing dictate my mood, point of view, or perspective, I turned to my son, over and over this trip and told him, he this is a moment where we empower ourselves. Because at the end of the day, we can look at not knowing the answer to something as a roadblock or as an opportunity to empower ourselves instead. It takes mistakes, it takes going down the wrong road, it takes using the wrong words or the wrong change, or even boarding the wrong train, but we are better because of the mistakes we are brave enough to make for ourselves. Perfection doesn't empower us, having the courage to be wrong, learn and adjust empowers us.
So the next time you are stuck on something, you feel lost, or like you aren't meeting that perfect mark, ask yourself, is this an opportunity to empower yourself instead?
I'm Coach Kate. Thanks for listening in today collaborating and being a part of our exploration hour with me from across the world. If you liked what you heard today, give me a follow. We'll be diving deeper into travel stories, experiences, and ideas as we build this show together this week and beyond. And in the meantime, I hope this inspires you to go out there, and build that confidence and empower yourself and your life in magical ways.
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