 Should you travel while you are young? The answer is yes, obviously. I'm 41 as I'm recording this and I went traveling for the first time overseas when I was 19 I think 19 I went to Europe on a six-week trip, which was pretty awesome and it completely and utterly shaped my entire personality so Thing is when you get into a new environment and you get into new culture And you get out of that comfort that you have your parents nest your the safety of the of the norm and your life it forces you to Do other things and to think different ways and it changes the wiring in your brain and It in starts to influence you and you start to see your own life differently and you start to see Possibility and you start to come up with business ideas or relationship ideas or different ways of living your life So when is the best time to go traveling? It's absolutely as soon as possible Now I did make a mistake with my traveling. Well, just to be clear. I'll just let you know what traveling I did do Let's walk down here a little bit. I When I went traveling the first time I went overseas was 1996 and this is before we had like, you know audio books and Smartphones and so I made the mistake of not listening to audio CDs I guess you could say oh, they're maybe even the CDs weren't out there. Oh, they were but while I was traveling I was having a great time. I was exposing myself to all this new stuff, which was amazing But what I didn't do is Educate myself while I was traveling. Okay now By that I mean I didn't educate myself on how to save I didn't educate myself on how to invest I didn't educate myself on how to By property for example And so while I traveled extensively throughout my 20s and my 30s I went through year 20 Italy France Spain Greece Portugal in 1997. I went right through up the Middle East I flew into Cairo and I backpacked through Egypt Jordan Syria Israel Lebanon up to Turkey Later on I went down to South America to Brazil and Argentina and learned some Spanish And I did all these kind of things, but What I didn't do while I was doing this and having fun was educate myself along the way because there are long periods of time We are on a long fight. There's a long period of time when you're on an overnight bus There's long periods of time where you're just sitting on a beach And I was just sitting there going. Oh, yeah, this is great. This is amazing Which it was I had an amazing time But what I could have been doing is having an amazing time and at those down times I could have just stuck in my earbuds and listened to Tony Robbins for example talk about motivation or to listen to Tai Lopez on the 67 steps You can go to jameswanick.com forward slash 67 steps will be an annotation here where you can see his rules for life Or you could have listened or you could have listened to the greats on real estate investment or Anything like that, but I didn't do that. So by the time that I got into my mid 30s, I was all of a sudden playing catch-up. I'm like, wow, I've traveled the world I've been to 40 something countries have had an amazing time But you know what now I got to get my financial house in order Which I did very quickly in which I have but Let me tell you something I have a lot more money in the bank right now if I had traveled the world and Learn stuff and educated myself at the same time. So The best time to go traveling Is now if you can and here's the thing if you can't afford or you think you can't afford it There's lots of ways around it now Like you can go to countries where you can use whatever currency you're using and it goes a long way For example, if you're watching this in america and you've got us dollars that goes a long way in many parts of asia it goes a long way in still in many parts of south america like Colombia or Peru or bolivia or even argentina So it doesn't mean you have to go on like these big super expensive european Holidays if the currency doesn't work for you, but pick a country or countries Where your currency does get a good exchange rate and go and visit those It's better than not doing anything like force yourself out of your comfort zone and when you do that Like I said it rewires your brain. You start to appreciate different cultures appreciate different ways of living It starts to inspire you with ideas. So when you go back to the culture that you grew up in You now are able to Create new businesses or create new relationships. What's more you become a hell of a lot more interesting quite frankly because Now you can you can have great interesting conversations over dinner or with friends or at a party and you can say Hey, when I was here, I saw this or did you know that when you're in? Santorini and the greek islands as a beautiful sunset. It was amazing and people are really telling me about it So now you become interesting So be interested in the world travel around go and see places It'll completely and utterly change your way of thinking and You know record yourself while you do it. I mean we live in an age now where you can just take your phone Your smartphone and record it and stick it up on youtube and before you know it You've got like thousands of people following you like following your travels. It's pretty cool So you can document it if I have for me to actually look at photos of me when I traveled in 96 or 97 now I've got to go to my mother's house back in brisbane austria go into her garage into the like a big Box and try and dig up these old photos that we used to print out Today it's like you can record everything right on video on your smartphone. So get out there and travel travel the world explore new Adventures new cities new countries get out there It will shape your personality. It'll inspire you And traveling, you know has made me the man that I am today get out there and do it too I'm walking on a treadmill desk. This is where I run my empire so to speak And did you know that if you walk for 15 minutes after you've eaten a meal?