What’s Stopping Your Travel Plans?

I’ve found that often times the number one reason people do not go on a trip is because they are sweating the details.

These days there is an overwhelming wealth of knowledge to be had about any given destination. Whether you are a Lonely-Planet-lover, TripAdvisor afficionado, or an Afar.com social-travel-network-er (or all of the above) the research alone could render a trip quite cumbersome.

Just the thought of parsing through the information, making itinerary decisions and musing “what will I really feel like doing while on the trip?”, can be repellant.

Oh, and then there is the worry about making the wrong decisions that may cause us to subsequently be inconvenienced or not have as good of a time as we could have if we had just made different choices.

Depending on your personality, you could really work yourself up!

I’ve seen these decisions overwhelm people into staying home. And I’m not ashamed to admit, I’ve spiraled into this web of discouragement myself.

But in my experience there is one tactic that always solves my problem. If I just take the first steps, booking the flights and a hotel, that pretty much seals the deal. And it seems that afterward everything else falls easily into place – proving that I was really my own biggest obstacle.

So my advice to you is, if you have let this kind of worry hijack your plans or stop you from living life as you really want to – it is time my friend. Put your apprehensions behind, make the initial bookings and soon you’ll find yourself smiling from ear to ear as you board a flight!