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🌴 3 Weeks in Bali 🌴

My favourite thing about travel is the 'mental space' you get. Being away from my usual environment and having an adventure always amplifies my creativity and clarifies my vision for the next part of my life.

Some people find it really hard to switch off when they are away, but I've always found it easy. I guess that's because subconsciously I know that if I switch off completely, my brain will get the chance to get fully refreshed, and the byproduct of that is creativity, passion, and vision.

I always come back from holidays with answers to problems, clear next steps to move projects along, and a real sense of how I need to grow personally in order to achieve what I want to achieve, help who I want to help, and be who I want to be.

This is the first holiday that I chose to work while away. I've got clients in 11 countries, and being able to have strategic days where I helped clients and ran online workshops for two different organisations added an extra buzz to the trip. I know I'm a nerd, but I love what I love, and I love my work.

Highlights of the trip: 1-on-1 time with Anna (my wife👸). I get excited about life just by hanging out with her. Quad biking and go-karting with my brother-in-law and living to tell the tale (those Bali safety standards are questionable). Climbing Mt. Batur at 3 am in the morning for 2.5 hours to see an epic sunrise and meeting up with friends and making new memories.

The 'old Ben' would have been unable to experience this kind of trip or have this kind of life. If I never worked on my mindset, I would still be the stressed out, super serious, shy, people-pleasing, procrastinating, out of control, worst-case scenario thinker that would never have the ability to achieve all those big goals he dreamed about.

Have I achieved everything? Definitely not! But I'm blessed, thankful for what I have and who I've helped, and I'm ready for the next leg of this thing called life.