One of the many reasons I LOVE Thailand is that life is SO easy here! This Thai man makes the case so clearly and beautifully: I am now leading excursions showing people new to Thailand how EASY life can be here, so that whether they want to live here or return again and again for travels and sabbaticals, it is EASY for...
Read MoreA few weeks ago I made a new friend in Chiang Rai, Thailand. We connected over how fun and funny it is to speak English with an exaggerated Thai accent. When you do this in a playful way, it not only makes it easier for Thai people to understand you, it’s also a great way to establish an emotional connection through laughter. I’ve decided to offer some fun Cultural Immersion journeys into Thailand, to help people discover and enjoy this magical place, and to experience it in a way that makes it easy to return throughout your life! And how to connect with the locals is one of the things we will learn and practice. (Must be willing to laugh at yourself!) If you’re interested, watch my intro video...
Read MoreHere are 3 of the Core Values I have when traveling: #1 – Going Slow Often times–especially if we’re Americans–we have just a few short weeks or less for a vacation, and we want to pack as much as fun and excitement as we can into that brief time. So we tend to travel with a feeling of a scarcity of time. This can have us focused in on ourselves and focused on getting–getting as much experiences and as many photos as we can in that short amount of time. One of the things I am going to show you how to do, if you come and travel with me or if you take my Carpe Diem! World Traveler LINK course, is how to get more time for longer journeys and sabbaticals. When you come and travel with me, it’s a requirement that we’re not in that scarcity mode. We’re not in that mode of taking and trying to just get as much as possible from the short time that we have. There’s something that’s really magical that happens as we just trust the journey, take our time to go slow, to connect with what we’re feeling, notice who our heart is calling us to connect with, take the time to build relationships and being open to the invitations that we receive along the way. This is one of the most miraculous things that’s happened to me on my travels. I don’t plan most of my own travels. Instead, I go slow, stay connected and follow heart-felt invitations. That’s something we’ll be doing if you come and travel with me. I require that we’re not in that rushed state of mind. Now, it’s OK if we start feeling this scarcity of time as we travel, and I’ll just bring reminders for us to slow down and trust. So if you’re interested in a change of pace and slowing down, de-stressing and learning to travel and live in this kind of a way, then maybe you’ll want to come and travel with me. And if not–if you want to cram as much as you can into your short vacation time as possible–then there are probably some better options or tourist packages that are better for you. #2 – Respect Many times in American culture, respect is lacking in our interactions. Partly this is from our value of independence and individuality. We want to be self-expressed and speak up for ourselves, but often...
Read MoreIt’s Michael Skye. I have something I’m really excited to share with you! Traveling the world for the last 7 years has transformed me, my life, my view of humanity, my way of relating to people, my experience of being alive, my self-expression, etc. And I’m so excited to share this with you. I’ve led some safaris in Africa, designed to be transformational. And I have a new idea for adventures I can take people on, and today I’d like to give you a preview. I’m here in beautiful Chiang Mai, Thailand, where I am staying with a friend who invited me to come spend some time with him. Much of my travels over the last 7 years have been gifts from people I’ve met along the way.. I talk a lot about the Gift Economy in my Carpe Diem! World Traveler course. … If you haven’t participated in that yet, I highly recommend you do so… kind of like a revelation. I have to keep traveling and to show people what I am experiencing, because it’s so beautiful. So here’s my idea for a journey Thailand (and perhaps later, for other parts of the world as well). This is an invitation to come and journey with me in Thailand for a few days, 1 week, 2 weeks. It’s designed to be a welcome into this culture that I love, this beautiful land, the beautiful people. It’s designed to be a soft landing and a welcome–not the kind a tourist would receive–but like someone who is coming home to family. Designed to be … transforms you. It opens your heart further, opens your world view, opens you up to new ways of expression, joy, aliveness, compassion… I am designing this journey to be a transformational AND sustainable. What … so you can ret Alowing you to return here with ease… staying for months or even years at a time, if you like. Can be a second home for you, if you want it to be. The idea is you turn your next 2-week vacation into a “Gateway Sabbatical”, where you spend your time in such a way that it opens up a whole new world for you, and makes it easy to return to this place. While you are here journeying with me, I am going to give you an introduction to easy ways of connecting with the locals, Fun ways of learning the Thai...
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