We have teamed up with J1 Coaching to talk about some of the things we can all do to make small changes and improve our well-being. Jim Constable is a friend of FiveWays and we are delighted he has agreed to share his knowledge and expertise with our clients:

Travel, when possible, can be many things. It can be fun, social and educational.

It also gives perspective which can have replenishing attributes. In travelling away from home, putting distance between where you are and where you live, it helps to see the world differently. And with that difference the trials and tribulations of day to day life can seem somewhat trivial.

Mark Twain summed up some of the benefits of seeing one’s home and oneself from a distance:

“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.”

Whatever your daily issues, challenges and annoyances, stepping back from them allows them to be perceived differently. Often they diminish.

Doing so adds breadth, richness and variety to our otherwise day to day lives.

So, when you can, get a different view. Walk a different path, stand on top of a hill, visit a different place.

It doesn’t need to be far. Travel to Timbuktu if you wish, or Torquay or Trafalgar Square.