Travel (and Life) Rule Number One: No Whining
Time we spend whining is far better used solving problems
Fear less, hope more; Eat less, chew more; Whine less, breathe more; Talk less, say more; Love more, and all good things will be yours. ~Swedish Proverb
Thirty-something years ago I sat around the dining-room table with my in-laws as we all learned a new set of rules for the game of Uno. We’d been playing the game together for years, but my sister-in-law Barb, who was the newest member of the family, had a few extra rules that her family played by. The first hand progressed until someone got stung by “Barb’s Rules.” After listening patiently to the comments, Barb calmly explained, “Did I forget to tell you rule number one? ‘No whining’.”
It’s been the number one rule in our extended family ever since and it’s the number one rule of travel. Telling you to stop whining is kind of like saying, “Be happy by being happy.”
Well, that is what I am saying. You could be getting in the way of your own traveling pleasure, and don’t even know it.
In order to be a happy traveler you first have to have the mindset of one
You have to decide that you are going to be that person. You have to decide that you are…
