6 reasons to get out of your comfort zone and start to travel alone

Independent travel speed up the emotional and intellectual growth. They make you wiser and more open, but also allows the experience.

Solo travel is rapidly gaining popularity. The number of people who for the first time in his life tried to go somewhere with no friends or relatives in the last few years has grown more than twice. And no wonder: even a short holiday alone helps to develop useful skills you can use in everyday life.

1. You learn to rely on themselves

You will become more organized. Near there is no one who will carry for you clothes to the laundry. Or you have to do it yourself, or accept the fact that your clothes smell and looks worse.

You will learn how to manage finances. If you do not follow the money, then they will soon have run out.

Keep an eye on yourself and your belongings - you alone are responsible for their safety.

2. You begin to experience vivid emotions

Perhaps you do not just feel helpless and out and exhausted. You can forget the bag and begin to seriously think about how not to give up if all go home and go to a normal family travel.

But along with all the negative emotions you will have to roll on the real joy and excitement. Eventually you realize that emotion is not the world and yourself.

When traveling alone, you will learn how to experience the wonderful moments of your life, while maintaining modesty. You will be able to experience feelings fully and begin to understand what actually causes them.

3. You learn to communicate with people

You will meet different people and in the process to develop social and emotional skills. They can then be used anywhere.

Soon you will learn how to lead a quiet and pleasant conversation with representatives of the bank, even if the conversation is linked to the fact that you can not access your account. With far more willing to come to the rescue staff well-balanced person.

Arriving somewhere for the weekend, you can quickly make friends and even relations. You will be with someone to go to a festival, or go to a restaurant in which you have long wanted to visit.

Even if you are traveling alone, you do not always have to be alone.

You will have the skills to communicate with people who speak other languages. Even if you are not going to seriously learn a foreign language, you can always learn its basics. The rest can be achieved by body language, Visual cues and patience. You only have to overcome the fear of appearing foolish.

You will become pay more attention to body signals, which can inadvertently send. So you start to work on posture and learn to approach people, so that they were more likely to talk to you.

4. You navigate your own route

Being a lone traveler, you will notice how your decisions are transformed into plans. You do not need anybody to wait, hurry up or postpone a trip just because someone changed his mind to go with you. Now your fate is in your hands.

5. You realize how small in comparison with the world

The world is huge. It's not just about the physical size, but also the importance of people and their willingness to help you. It is one thing - to talk about it, quite another - to experience for yourself.

When you see how enormous our planet and how generous people in it, you realize all her greatness.

6. You become more confident

While traveling, you realize how much are stronger compared to the moment when he first put on a backpack and closed the door. You found yourself in dynamic, dangerous and even unimaginable situations - and you deal with all this.

Have you checked yourself and know what they are capable. And you know that you can cope with it all, then were so afraid when I first planned independent travel.

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