Did You Keep Your Travel Resolutions For 2009?
At the beginning of 2009 I took at look at some travel resolutions that we could all stand to make at one level or another. Personally, I know not cutting it so last minute was a goal I had set for myself. All I was really able to accomplish was perfecting being late to an art. I can’t count the number of times I’ve walked right on to a plane as they were shutting the gate doors behind me this past year. Leaving that behind I’ve resolved to take more pictures and also set a number of travel blogging goals.
What I’d like to hear from you is, did you keep your travel resolutions for 2009?
Perhaps you never made any or have just set some for 2010. Feel free to share your most important travel resolutions and how you fared. Announcing them might make them easier to keep or encourage others with their goals. I’ll be sharing some of these in a post later on next week and your contributions are invaluable.
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We did not make any travel resolutions in 2009 because we didn’t know how drastically are lives were going to change with our dogs AND starting up GoPetFriendly. Our resolution for 2010 is simply to travel as much as we possibly can (70-80% of the time) with Ty & Buster in our RV … being ambassadors for people traveling with their pets and showing them how easy pet travel can be.
I can’t believe your site is so new, feel like you’ve been around for a long time! There’s a lot of information at GoPetFriendly, looking forward to reading about your road trips in 2010 – and of course meeting you at TBEX!
I didn’t set any for ’09, but I let my ’08 ones carry over for me. In ’08 I did a whole vision board where I cut out images and created a picture of what I wanted my next couple of years to look like – and RTW travel was on there
Then I hung it so that it was the first thing I saw in the morning – images like a laptop w/a cut out scene of someone lying in a hammock to represent me working from the road, stuff like that. And to that end, yeah! I met them all!
That’s awesome – I love the image of working from a laptop. Visualizing and then accomplishing a goal is the best feeling.
None made…none broken…
Simple, yet effective. My goals don’t usually revolve around the New Year but I set very specific goals with defined deadlines.
I did achieve most of what I wanted, but perhaps didn’t progress as quickly as I might have liked, mainly due to the fact I was working full time and there just weren’t enough hours in the day.
I guess that as my job is well paid and the blog barely earns any money, we can’t have it all. I wouldn’t choose to be poor just to blog full time, but I do hope this year to build up my blog income so that over time I can make it a viable full time job.
By the way Anil, I’d find you a nightmare to travel with if you’re always cutting it fine for flights. As a natural born planner, this would blow my stress levels – how does your wife cope with you!
LOL! My wife being Swedish, she is especially punctual. (Like the Swiss or the Germans, Swedes are almost always precise and on time.) I’m consistently late and I think we just split up when we’re going to be on time and when to run on “Turkish time” as she likes to call it. For flights, generally I get to slide by leaving last minute but for other things (like going out) I try my best to be on time…which I’m rarely successful at, admittedly.
haha, I think my resolution was to get the hell out of Ukraine!
Resolution: Completed
…and I was just hearing good things about it. Glad you were able to get out though, maybe you’ll get the best backpacker job? Saw you post the voting wasn’t going too well but maybe there’s still a chance?
Considering my website is 6 months old, I didn’t make any resolutions. As for 2010, well, I don’t believe in resolutions just because it’s the New Year. I keep the vision and the plan I’ve set out and work towards it, reassessing as I go along.
Running this kind of website take time and effort. You’ve got to have the passion for it else it’s not worthwhile.
It does take a passion. It’s time consuming and requires a lot of work for one person.