5 Lessons Travelling Can Teach You

Note from Kimanzi: This is a guest post by M.Farouk Radwan, who is a full-time blogger and author. You can read his blog here or follow him on Facebook here. If you would like to guest post on this blog email a post to kimanzi@talesofwork.com and I’ll review it.

When most people think about travelling all that comes to their minds is being on a vacation and escaping from work. In addition to the amazing moments a person spends while travelling he can learn lots of important life lessons without actually noticing.

Travelling to a new country or to a place that you have never been to before will not only help you relax your mind but it can teach you lots of things about life that you might need along your journey towards your goals.

Here are some of the lessons travelling can teach you:

Being ok with loss of control: many people freak out when they lose control in their lives. The beauty of travelling is that it sometimes lets you go through situations of harmless loss of control. These situations can help you adapt to the fact that you sometimes might not be able to control everything and so help you feel better whenever something goes wrong in your life. Being lost in a new city, not finding enough cash all of a sudden, finding yourself alone in a new place and many other similar situations can help you adapt to loss of control.
Finding business ideas: many successful business ideas can come to your mind while visiting a new country. Sometimes you might find a brilliant idea implemented successfully in a country that you are visiting and that is not implemented in your country yet. Such ideas can be the seed that you plant to harvest a successful business.
Improving Social skills: the best way to develop social skills is to find yourself in a place where you either have to socialize or die! For example, if you lost your way while visiting a new country then you will be forced to talk to people you don’t know in order to know your way back. This situation and many similar ones will help you develop better social skills.
Learning to plan: when you travel to a new country you will find that you have to plan for many things in order to be able to survive, whether it’s the budget or the way you are going to communicate with people who don’t speak your language such tasks will teach you how to plan for your goals which will in turn teach you how to plan for your life.
More self-confidence: when you do the things listed above along with the other things you will find yourself forced to do your self-confidence will increase. Self confidence increases when people learn new life skills and travelling can be one of the best schools that can teach you these skills

Take a break from work, travel, have fun and develop your skills : )

Where have you gone or where do you plan to travel this year? What lessons have you learned?