Vacation Ideas … Are You Looking for Extraordinary Different Ones?
Do you enjoy traveling and experiencing new places on vacation? Always on the lookout for extraordinary vacation ideas?
In 1940, an advertising executive named James Webb Young published a short guide titled, A Technique for Producing Ideas.
Young believed the process of creative connection always occurred in five steps. Gather new material. At first, you learn. During this stage you focus on 1) learning specific material directly related to your task and 2) learning general material by becoming fascinated with a wide range of concepts. Thoroughly work over the materials in your mind.
During this stage, you examine what you have learned by looking at the facts from different angles and experimenting with fitting various ideas together. Step away from the problem.
Next, you put the problem completely out of your mind and go do something else that excites you and energizes you. Let your idea return to you. At some point, but only after you have stopped thinking about it, your idea will come back to you with a flash of insight and renewed energy.
Shape and develop your idea based on feedback. For any idea to succeed, you must release it out into the world, submit it to criticism, and adapt it as needed.
If so, keep reading as I will offer four idea recommendations and vacation ideas for you to ponder:
Vacation islands.
Visiting Charlottesville Virginia and Thomas
Jefferson
Do you feel that traveling enhances your continuous learning
and curiosity? Perhaps visiting Charlottesville, Virginia and Thomas Jefferson will help you in this
answer. Let me elaborate.
I am at the end of my third career now, so it has been a few years since my college days. But I spent 8+ years as an undergraduate and graduate student at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia.
And traveling has always been a favorite thing to do for myself and my family. And we have returned to Charlottesville on several occasions. It is a very special place to visit and learn many interesting things.
Yes, it has changed significantly since my college days. And
those changes have made it even better as a travel location. Let
me tell you the places and things that make Charlottesville and Thomas
Jefferson so special.
Touring the Thousand Islands of New York and Canada
Thousand Islands,
Are you always on the lookout for a new weekend getaway
experience? My wife and I semi-retired about 4 years ago and weekend getaways,
especially places we haven’t seen, are always a priority with us. Recently we had an excellent
long weekend touring the Thousand Islands.
Related: Favorite Towns on the Finger Lakes for a Weekend Getaway
Have you ever visited this area? We totally enjoyed our 3-day visit and highly recommend it to others. Let me explain why.
The
Beaches of Florida’s Space Coast
Stretching 72 miles along Florida’s East Coast, the Space Coast continues to enliven, entertain, and inspire more and more visitors each year. While the Space Coast area of Florida’s East Coast is known as the home of America’s space program, Orlando’s closest beaches and some of the best surfing in the country, this is only a taste of what this area has to offer.
Space Coast.
Related: Why the Space Coast Brevard Zoo is a Diamond in the Rough
Whether you dream of excitement and entertainment or simplistic peace and tranquility, the Space Coast has what you’re seeking. And the variety of offered activities is fantastic and sure to have that something for everyone in your family or group.
Take a close look at these ten smashing reasons why we believe this is the best location to plan your Florida vacation.
The
Best Finger Lakes Wineries to Visit
My family and I have spent 31 of a 35-year career in the upstate New York Finger Lakes Region, and despite growing up in the southeast; I can’t imagine a better place to live. So you can imagine we are quite familiar with this region and its wine country.
Last few years my career took me to short term assignments in California, Virginia, Florida, and Colorado, all places with some established wine industry that we visited on several occasions.
At the conclusion of these assignments, it was time to retire … a good time to spend the summer getting reacquainted with the Finger Lakes Region (to include it’s growing wine industry). As a result, we are writing several articles on our research and resulting in travels.
We recently posted another article on Finger Lakes getaways:
Finger Lakes Getaway … How to
Select the Best Wineries to Visit
The bottom line
Your senses are wonderful tools for you to engage while unleashing the power of the imaginative mind. Make it colorful and exciting. Make your imagination your ally and your best friend.
All of these vacation sites were real winners for us. Don’t think you could miss with any of them.
All you get is what you bring to the fight. And that fight gets better every day you learn and apply new ideas.
When things are not what you want them to be, what’s most important is your next step.
Test.
Learn. Improve. Repeat.
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Mike Schoultz is the founder of Digital Spark Marketing, a digital marketing and customer service agency. With 40 years of business experience, he blogs on topics that relate to improving the performance of a business. Find him on Twitter, and LinkedIn.
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