Planning Your Year

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Planning for the upcoming year can be tough. There are endless possibilities, but you don’t want to overload yourself!

Enter, the Rosebud method.

Jason Moore joins me today to chat about our method for planning out the upcoming year and how it helps us focus on what’s really important to us!

We chat about a couple of the big wins from 2016, the not so big wins from 2016, and a couple of our goals looking forward to 2017. Our method is super simple and easy to follow along with so grab some pen & paper (or open your note-taking program) and start the brain dump!

What was your biggest win from 2016? Let me know @ExtraPackofPeanuts!!

Today’s episode has been sponsored by our friends at Tortuga Backpacks!

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In This Episode

  • 09:23 Looking back is just as important as looking forward
  • 13:20 The Rosebud system
  • 17:18 The three F’s
  • 25:07 Which part was the hardest?
  • 28:04 The wins
  • 33:28 The buds
  • 35:40 Our mottos for 2017

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Magical Mystery Tours – Booking a Secret Vacation with Denise Chaykun

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Ever wanted to go on vacation, but didn’t want to spend hours and hours making the decision and planning all the details?

Well, now you don’t have to.

Magical Mystery Tours will provide you with your location, your flight, your transportation, and even your activities if you wish! All you do is fill out a survey, and they’ll handle the rest.

You’ll be completely in the dark until you arrive at the airport to board your flight.

Today one of the founders of Magical Mystery Tours, Denise Chaykun, joins me to talk about how she got into travel, how she started planning mystery tours for her friends, and what exactly one can expect when they book a surprise trip somewhere in the world.

What are your thoughts on showing up at the airport with no knowledge of your destination? Could you handle the suspense?

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In This Episode:

  • 3:20 What is a mystery tour?
  • 6:40 How did you get into that?
  • 8:20 When did it go large scale?
  • 13:30 What range of budgets do you take on?
  • 16:52 The personality of a mystery traveler.
  • 20:00 The magical mystery process.
  • 31:00 When did Denise start to travel.
  • 38:25 The travel planners & travel mishaps
  • and much more!

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Pre-Trip Planning: How Much Research Should You Really Do?

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What is one of the most common New Year’s resolutions?

Travel.

To help any of you who may have “More Travel” written on that list of things you’d like to accomplish in 2015, we’ve decided to help you plan your trip.

Heather joins me as we chat about our planning process – the more fun, research-based side, for the more practical aspects of travel planning check out our Pre-Travel Checklist.

We discuss how we decide where to go, researching things to do at your destination, accommodations, tours, and how to conduct on the ground research.

What are your travel plans for 2015?

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In This Episode:

  • 05:19 – Picking a destination
  • 08:45 – Google Flights Explorer
  • 10:48 – The differing costs of cities
  • 15:16 – Researching your destination
  • 20:00 – Planning your itinerary
  • 30:29 – Booking accommodations and tours
  • 34:51 – On the ground research
  • and much more!

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