Moving through life with 6 “I”s

I’ve recently started reading this book called “Life is a Verb”, by Patti Digh, and aside from having a lot of stories about small children in it (as an unrepentant non-child-haver, I sometimes get a little fed up with how precious everyone is supposed to think children are, all the time), it has some truly good advice for everyone, but particularly for those of us who make the world our home.  Obviously, anyone can live in the world, but vagabonders…we live everywhere.  We live out loud, traveling as we go, and sometimes we might need some guidance, or feel squashed, and then the paths we can follow back to the world at large can be hard to find.

This book has a simple group of 6 “I”s that lead you to wherever you want to go.  As follows:

• Intensity: Say yes
• Inclusion: Be generous
• Integrity: Speak up
• Intimacy: Love more
• Intuition: Trust yourself
• Intention: Slow down

Sounds like pretty good advice to me.  As a final addition, a quote in the book resonated with my theories of long-term travel, a quote by Carl Rogers: “The good life is a process, not a state of being.  It is a direction, not a destination.”  The journey of a thousand years begins with a single step.