Life is meant to be one great adventure. However, sometimes even the wildest and most creative among us falls by the wayside. Sometimes things just don’t go according to plan. Illness, job drama or relationship issues can all rear their ugly heads when we least expect it. And then our emotions spiral downward, taking our inspiration along for the ride! But if you can trying inspiring your next adventure from previous experiences, you’ll snap right out of it.
When we’re feeling down and are struggling with negative life events, keeping the adventurous flame within us alive can be hard. Luckily, there are all sorts of ways of reviving that flame.
Getting away from the environment where we’ve found ourselves caught in the mud, even if just for a short time, can open up the space for us to get back to dreaming big dreams and thinking of solutions to the problems that may be weighing us down. Of course, there are certain things you can do on your travels in order to help this process along. Then, there are other things which will slow it down and hold you back.
Here are a few ways that will help you with inspiring your next adventure.
3 Ways of Inspiring Your Next Adventure
Expose yourself to larger than life cultural experiences
Humans encode, describe, record, and act out their greatest fantasies of adventure, excitement, and bliss through the avenue of culture. An idea, born in the imagination or sensed somewhere deep within, gets made ten times more solid by being written into a song. That song then gets released to the general public, and inspired dozens (if not hundreds) of others to feel the same form of inspiration.
The same goes for other forms of art. A great picture can speak volumes and inspire all sorts of emotions. And a great film or theatrical stage performance can completely encapsulate some of the most powerful moments of human experience, too.
In other words, if you want to reawaken or power-up your drive for adventure when travelling, one of the best things you can do is to expose yourself to larger than life cultural experiences. Those things that people all over the world talk about, and probably will talk about for years if not for centuries.
Seeing one of New York’s most popular shows in a Broadway theatre can have a life-changing impact on you.
It can leave you immediately inspired to walk with your head held high and a glint of inspiration in your eye. The same goes for attending a great concert. Or visiting an art gallery where the work of some of the best painters and sculptors of the ages can be found, preserved.
Whatever inspires you particularly, seek out those cultural experiences that make you come to life, and use them as fuel to charge yourself up and help you get ready to face the world head-on once more. This time with a head more full of bold ideas, and a heart full of courage.
Keep a notebook to write down your thoughts & ambitions
To live a truly great and adventurous life, you need to have some understanding of yourself, your obstacles, thought processes, habits, motivations, and ultimate desires.
Or to put it another way, to live the life of your dreams, you first need to know what your dreams actually are.
One of the best ways of helping to uncover your own mental blocks so that you can work past them, as well as identifying what those things are in life that truly inspire you the most, is to keep a notebook or journal with you on your travels. After all, it’s super helpful to write down your thoughts and ambitions.
Something really interesting happens when you’re travelling away from home. Your thought process relaxes and loosens up a bit. You begin to see things in ways you had never previously considered. You can also be inspired in ways that you normally would have brushed off back at home.
Keep a notebook with you while travelling and write down whatever comes to your mind. It could be a fully-fledged journal, but it doesn’t have to be.
Make big plans while riding high on the adventure trail
As a general principle, you want to dream big! Also, come up with your plans and goals when you’re riding high. I mean, how else are you inspiring your next travels? Plans and goals that you make when you’re feeling low and displeased with life aren’t likely to be great, incredible, adventurous, and uplifting. Instead, they’re likely to be influenced by your current state of mind. Also, to have reluctance, fear, insecurity, and jadedness baked into them from the start. When you’re out on your travels, you’ll find moments when you’re truly riding high, and feel great about life and the world.
It’s in those moments that you should make big plans and set goals for the future.
Of course, you’ll still want to reflect and review on these goals a bit to make sure you’re not risking your life in silly ways in the process of seeking out big, awe-inspiring moments (deciding to go and wrestle wild bears for sport may be one to reconsider and reformulate slightly), but that’s just a matter of editing.
If all goes as it should, you should find that those goals you set in your happiest, wildest, and most on-top-of-the-world moments will carry with them the spark of adventure, excitement, and positivity.
It’s that spark which is essential for rising out of any slump and living life to the full, no matter the occasion. And it’s goals that ensure that you’re always able to structure your actions so that you’re heading towards a situation, or place, that you want, rather than towards one that you’d prefer to avoid.
Having strong goals doesn’t just put you on a positive life track, either. It also creates hope, which is priceless! How are you inspiring your next adventure?
This ‘Inspiring Your Next Adventure’ post was contributed to The Lady-like Leopard.