There’s times I love being alone. There’s times (99% of the time) that I love being with people. I’ve found in solo travel you get to spend your time with countless people, even more so than when you travel with a buddy or a group. But you know, sometimes you’ll be alone when you didn’t…
Category: Break Barrier 4: Alone
Alone
No matter what you want out of life, your life could be greatly enriched by developing a practice of being alone.
Please, please, whether or not you ever want to travel alone, please hear me out:
Your life could be incredibly enriched by cultivating a practice of being alone.
You can have the most energetic, people-filled, party-animal, explosion of friends and activities and love and relationships and coffee dates and live with all 50 of your best friends and have your 3 dogs sleep in your bed, and be living your best life. AND still benefit from cultivating a 20-minute practice of being alone each day.
Alone is different than lonely. Alone is is a pure physical state.
Let’s dive in.
4 reasons solo travel is for extroverts too
I am absolutely in love with solo travel. And I never thought I’d say that. I always pictured solo travel being very introverted, maybe a lot of time for reflection, but all around… lonely. I had come to accept that some of our adventures in life we have to experience alone. But I was so…
10 ways to meet people while traveling alone
As you may know, I love solo travel. I never thought I would like it until I tried it, and realized – you never actually have to be alone. In fact, I see solo travel as a kind of extrovert’s paradise where you basically get to make a bunch of new friends all the time…
Learning to love being alone
The number of people who run into me on my way to the beach and ask “you’re going… alone…?” like it’s something crazy. Ummmm.. yeah, me and 50 other people beachin’ it. I wanted to go to the beach, no one else wanted to go to the beach right then, so instead of pouting, I…
Comfort Zones
Comfort zones grow slowly – but when they’re big, you’re so free.And it’s so fun. And every step, one step at a time, can be exhilarating along the way… So I’m letting you in on my travel strategy here. When I first moved to Ecuador four years ago, I was terrified. I was nervous, feared for…