Ellen Besso Coaching

An article in the Vancouver Sun caught my eye about a week ago. It was entitled Take a Leap & Book the Family for a Six-Month Adventure.

The family in the article went to the Mount Everest basecamp in Nepal. Although there are obstacles like work, school and money, it’s well worth it for families with kids to explore continents together, the article maintains.

As you’ve likely read, my partner and I are traveling to far-away places these days. We meet many midlife couples and single women, and many more younger peole on our journeys. But now and again we do meet families with quite young children and they appear to be having a wonderful, relaxed time.

So, although it’s easier for us with no kids at home and fewer financial responsibilities now, it can and is done by families. What a rich experience to offer children in their formative years. Their lives will be changed forever; no amount of awareness raising at home or school can match these hands on experiences.

So, yes it is a leap to make a decision to go away for an extended period of time, whether we are single, coupled or a family. But what good things in life don’t require some risk?

I invite you to think about Taking a Leap into travel, volunteer work, career change, new relationships…whatever excites you and fills your heart with joy. If your reservations are holding you back, list the main ones, then come up with as many reasons as you can think of to disprove them.