Life gets busy and occasionally messy. Sometimes we fall out of routines and habits. Sometimes it’s easy to feel overwhelmed or fatigued. Being pulled in different directions by the demands of work, family, and society, often leaves little room for self-exploration or the pursuit of joy. But what if you paused to take control? What if you were able to approach your everyday experiences with a clear sense of intention and purpose? What if you were given a tool to unlock your fullest potential?
Main Character Vibes
Goal-Oriented Travel (G.O.T.) redefines how we view time, investment, and self-care. Rather than feeling restricted by schedules or overwhelmed by endless tasks and responsibilities, Create Joy Travel encourages a shift in mindset, where each experience becomes an intentional step towards growth, this extends to having everyday to extraordinary experiences.
Travel comes in all forms, but ultimately when you step into an experience it will shape you in some way. Navigating the new and routine will impact your perspective, values, and actions. Immersing oneself in new or different environments, can open space up for creativity, reflection, personal discovery, and transformation. Experiential living begins when you set intentions in small, achievable ways to pursue bigger goals. Consider G.O.T travel as an accessible option to you, as you become more empowered to reframe your comfort zones. Create Joy Travel offers unique pathways to explore your interests, passions, and life-long learning goals and develop new ones. Become the main character by validating your ambitions!
Understanding Your Origins
In order to develop an effective goal-oriented travel plan that aligns with your personal goals and desired outcomes, we encourage you to spend some time thinking about and identifying your underlying motivations. Sometimes it is also helpful to look back at patterns, behaviors, and habits we have had in the past, before we can put in the work to move forward and grow. Understanding your WHY is where we dig into what is behind your goals and motivation. It is a gentle introduction to introspective excavation.
The following questions come from an exercise we do with our Create Joy travelers to help them unravel their WHY. As you contemplate these sample questions, you’ll delve deeper into your commitment to embarking on a goal-oriented travel adventure.
- How do I perceive the health of my current relationships, specifically my intimate circle, my working circle, and my local community circle?
- What could I do within my power to foster, enhance, grow, or change these relationships?
- How do I respect and interact with nature and the environment around me?
- How could my interactions improve?
- Looking at the different relationships I have, do I see any patterns? If so, what are those patterns?
- Have the relationship choices I have made and the corresponding actions I have taken prevented me from my ideal life?
- What actions or routines do I have now that are preventing me from adopting my ideal life?
- What currently motivates me?
For many of our travelers, it is the discovery of their WHY that initiates and ignites greater ambitions.
So, now that we have shared with you a little bit about Create Joy’s approach to facilitating and planning travel experiences, would you say that it is about time for another narrative to be written?
Get Smart for Impactful Experiences
At Create Joy, we have identified a number of common goals that can provide examples and inspiration, as you think about what you want and what you hope to get out of your future-facing, goal-oriented travel experience. You might have the desire to change a habit, or acquire a new skill. You may want to learn to be comfortable in a different and immersive environment. Or, maybe you want to accomplish a physical feat. Here are some of the many questions we might encourage you to explore,
- What intentions would you need to set in order to work towards these goals?
- What opportunities would furnish you with new knowledge or perspective?
- What scenarios or outcomes would bring you closer to personal achievement?
Creating a travel plan with smart goal-setting strategies allows us to focus on outcomes that will be impactful and meaningful. We look to the CREATE goals framework to set reasonable and attainable goals. CREATE goals are similar to SMART Goals with a Create Joy twist.
Create Joy Travel is well-versed in offering smart, compassionate and encouraging guidance that will nail down the whys, hows, and what ifs that are integral to your goal-oriented travel experience.
A Community of Care
At the heart of self-development and most personal goals, there is a universal connection. What we hope to learn about ourselves, can help us to better understand who we are as contributing community members. When you set goals of learning, growth, and achievement, it can have a rippling effect in terms of what you bring into your broader community. But before you can identify and develop a strong sense of identity and meaning, you must first feel secure and supported in looking at your relationships and community involvement, as it is presently.
Community and care are integral and interrelated components in transformational and sustainable travel. Building a sense of community and care directly relates to everyday aspects of your life. Whether you are sharing your days with loved ones, interacting with strangers on the go, or communicating and collaborating with colleagues in work settings, relationship-building generates human capital that can have a greater impact on our communities and our social-emotional identities.
Improving the way you view and engage with immediate acquaintances, working peers, and in local circles can also have many intrinsic social, psychological, and wellness benefits. Improving these relationships can increase your overall health, your personal and global knowledge, your sense of personal safety and belonging, your access to resources and opportunities, and your emotional intelligence.
Your One Wild & Precious Life
In a world full of influence, losing sight of your identity and purpose is easy to do. It is when we grant ourselves the time and permission to uncover our fullest potential, we not only enrich our lives but inspire those around us through our personal growth and learning stories.
Travel can be the key to unlocking your unique story. You hold the power to take the reins, steer your own course, and embark on adventures that can lead you to new and exciting places. With each goal you set, every step you take, and every experience you celebrate, you come that much closer to unlocking your limitless potential and embracing the boundless joy it brings.
Goal-Oriented Travel with Create Joy will prepare you for the possibilities and value-added experiences that may have once felt out of reach, leaving more time for you to focus on what is important to you, and what you aspire to achieve with your one wild and precious life.
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