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The Habit That’s Making Your Vacations Less Enjoyable
Advice on Making Travel More Memorable
To get straight to the point, the habit that’s making your trips less enjoyable is a lack of mindfulness.
Now, you may be wondering — how does a lack of mindfulness impact my trips? Heck, what does it even mean?! It’s not a habit!
And that’s entirely true — it’s not a habit, but a lack thereof. However, we can attribute behavioral patterns to habits, and resorting to the behavior of omitting mindfulness is definitely a habitual action that you might be stuck in when on vacation.
What is Mindfulness?
Mindfulness is usually defined as living in the present moment.
The ‘present moment’ can be tough to understand because we live in a world revolving around our lives, not necessarily our actions. But to put it into perspective, a mindful thought would be acknowledging what is happening around you: stuff you can see, feel, touch, hear, and so on.
The difficulty in drawing the line between mindful and not mindful is usually seen in digital storytelling. We can be mindful when watching a movie, but it’s not what you think it looks like.
