WHO SAYS YOUR NEXT VACATION CAN'T BE EXCITING?

Why not go for something big? 

Why not go for something special? Why not go for a lifetime memory? If you had some special destination in mind you might find you could get a little more excited about taking a break. It also might energize your work. It would give you something exciting to dream about, to talk about and to prepare for.

Your life will be as dull as you let it be
Too many people just assume these kinds of trips are out of their reach…so they don't even try. If they would, they might be amazed how achievable they are. The cost might not be as high as you thought. You might be able to leverage some air miles or hotel credits. There are a lot of options you'll never find out about if you never consider it. Why should you go visit the relatives or the same old friends again? Why should you make another trip to a beach, mountain, park or campground you've been to again and again?

Go—and you'll be shocked to see who's there
There will be all kinds of people just like yourself, hundreds of them. You'll find out a lot of people have figured out how to make these kinds of trips happen. Once you go on one, you'll figure out how to do more. You'll find you have new energy and excitement…and if you don't watch out, you might start to see your entire overall attitude start to pick up.

It's time for you to take a real vacation…a special one!
Take a look at these ideas…some of the most beautiful places in the world! These will get you thinking in the right direction because they are certainly worth the trip! Who knows? 

You may catch the fever and decide you want to take your family and go see them all!

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This is a link to more ideas from Travel and Leisure.

Vitthala Temple, Hampi, Karnataka, India

Simberi Island, New Ireland, Papua New Guinea

Møre og Romsdal, Norway

Djenné Mosque, Mali

Guelta d’ Archeï, ChadIshak Pasha palace, Eastern Anatolia, Turkey

5 questions for Occupy Wall Street

I’d like to take you seriously and feel good about what you’re doing however it’s awfully hard when what you’re doing and the way you’re going about it doesn’t seem to make any sense.

Maybe it would help if we could get some answers to some obvious questions. Here they are: 

1. What's the point? I'm asking this because it's hard to see how someone sitting in the grass or on a corner with a sign is going to cause a global reshift for good.  I can’t imagine CEO’s of major financial corporations looking out the window seeing people sitting and chanting and feeling compelled to do anything at all.

2. What changes do you want to make? You've got to be specific and have ideas.  It's no good to sit and complain, so what are your ideas and suggestions?  Have you gotten far enough along to have a “list of demands”?  There is obviously a huge itch you have that desperately needs to be scratched I’m just not sure exactly where it is, how you want it to be scratched, and who you want to scratch it. 

3.  Who's in charge? - you say it’s a leaderless movement. That’s like a headless body.  Any organization has to have a head otherwise you don’t have an army you have a mob. For all purposes it seems like that’s what you have.  When we had the peaceful demonstrations for civil rights obviously Martin Luther King was in charge.  In India Ghandi was in charge.  You can’t expect serious people to take you seriously when you approach them like a mob.

4.  Do you all agree on anything? Do you actually agree or are you thousands of people with thousands of different ideas wanting thousands of different things creating situations where you’ll never be satisfied?  How do you know, if you don’t have agreement, that some of the changes you want aren’t different from the changes the guy sitting next to you wants.  That’s why you need leaders, to bring unity and focus.

5.  What’s your next step? Where do you go from here?  You have created a lot of attention for yourselves by forcing your way into the spotlight so now people are looking at you and wondering what is going on, what’s your point, why should you be taken seriously?  I’m one of those people and would appreciate your help in explaining a few mysteries about your “movement”.This is what I’m wondering because right now it looks like a bunch of childish, entitled, people crying, raging against the machine, but too lazy to get in the process of making the changes that need to be made. I’m sure that enrages you but that’s exactly what that looks like. It’ll be great to hear why you think that’s not the case.