travel Lessons

Travel lesson 8: The clichés of a sabbatical

The Clichés sabbatical

The sabbatical seems to have become more popular among ordinary people in their thirties, forties and fifties and not just hippies roaming around the world. Previously, it was mainly artists and artists who decided to stop for a while with their performance and artistic pursuits to regain their inspirations. But today is the sabbatical new pause as we all the new like stabbing (new works, the new food, The new Apply, the new sports, the new meet, the new economy and so on).

Even in business and politics a sabbatical is seen as a necessary period for obtaining "new" insights that contribute to a better and 'new' management.

All this sounds like a fairy tale with romantic expectations. Therefore it is not surprising that more than 750.000 people dream of taking a sabbatical, hence people we encountered along the way. But a sabbatical really as rosy as it seems? Nee, during your sabbatical get many dragons, witches and everything you have ignored in the years of the rat race to the top. They come without invitation to the ball inside to shake things up. Is this a reason NOT to take a sabbatical? Nee, This is precisely the reason to ponder what a sabbatical for YOUR means. The sabbatical your goal or your waist? If it is your goal to be a very different kind of sabbatical than when it is your waist. First I saw my sabbatical as a way to find myself but I can tell you that this will be an endless quest for finding myself completely is not something I 6 months, 1 year or 2 just can. So the first cliché may table.

Another cliché is that we all, but really all, want to do during such a sabbatical, travel so often, as far and as long as possible, between a blog and tracking social media, work on your relationship, and anything you can think of until you run out to discover that a sabbatical is primarily designed to pause. A sabbatical year should be a year according to the Torah where you land, in this case yourself, must make pure and what unfolds you should only consider. take a sabbatical to consider just life is not exactly my intention, but to find a balance between its working and rest.

A third cliche is that you can realize your dreams during a sabbatical. Realizing your dreams is not only dependent on a sabbatical, otherwise it would be very easy. A sabbatical bears energy, inspiration and time to the realization of your dreams, but the rest you can do for yourself.

The last cliché is to travel when you take a sabbatical and you can read the reasons in my article Travel makes you rich. But when you reason to take a sabbatical to flee from your current existence then you're wrong, because you take way or always on a journey yourself.

There are more clichés about taking a sabbatical, but I think the important thing is that you do what feels right for yourself, because after your sabbatical nobody sits on your thousands of photos, movies or wild stories waiting. Indeed, they'll just ask what you plan to go DO after such a long “vacation” 😉

2 Comments

  • Dew

    In the end what matters are the experiences that remain how beautiful you discover every day a new journey. It is gratifying to be many sabbaticals.

  • Annette Gelderblom

    mild Diana,

    A year later a moment huddled basic travel classes. How wonderful to read how you started to look at yourself and where you're really enjoying this life.

    Lots of love, Annette

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