Creating Tours On A Woodland Walk
Creativity is a strange thing.
Office work can sometimes be tedious, particularly for an active tour guide. You know how it is... sometimes you’ve gotta get up and leave the office behind in order to make a little space in your mind for creativity to creep back in.
I need creativity when I’m dreaming of a new tour itinerary. This may sound mundane to you, but to me a new itinerary is a new Christmas present that an intrepid traveller can unwrap. It’s a dream being fulfilled or an experience that will be gained and remembered for life....it’s a very special thing.
I’m a tour guide with a passion for giving these things to people, but I need to create them first.
The process starts with a simple question.... ‘where do I want to go next’ ?
The next question is, ‘how do I want to do it’?
And the final question is, ‘how long will I need to explore this place’ ?
With those things resolved, I then need to imagine what I’ll do from the moment I meet my small group of tour members, for the first time, and systematically go through each day with them... but only in my mind.
The office is not the place to do this. And I can’t say that it’s actually ‘work’, although it does have to be done.
Sometimes, I’ll go and walk on one of the many quiet beaches that lie just a few short miles from my home. At other times, I’ll go and visit some great ancient site, perhaps a stone circle or tomb, for some peace, in an effort to ‘create’.
Yesterday, I took a stroll in the woods... it was lovely, and I wanted you to see Some of the moments In which a tour was born.
Office work can sometimes be tedious, particularly for an active tour guide. You know how it is... sometimes you’ve gotta get up and leave the office behind in order to make a little space in your mind for creativity to creep back in.
I need creativity when I’m dreaming of a new tour itinerary. This may sound mundane to you, but to me a new itinerary is a new Christmas present that an intrepid traveller can unwrap. It’s a dream being fulfilled or an experience that will be gained and remembered for life....it’s a very special thing.
I’m a tour guide with a passion for giving these things to people, but I need to create them first.
The process starts with a simple question.... ‘where do I want to go next’ ?
The next question is, ‘how do I want to do it’?
And the final question is, ‘how long will I need to explore this place’ ?
With those things resolved, I then need to imagine what I’ll do from the moment I meet my small group of tour members, for the first time, and systematically go through each day with them... but only in my mind.
The office is not the place to do this. And I can’t say that it’s actually ‘work’, although it does have to be done.
Sometimes, I’ll go and walk on one of the many quiet beaches that lie just a few short miles from my home. At other times, I’ll go and visit some great ancient site, perhaps a stone circle or tomb, for some peace, in an effort to ‘create’.
Yesterday, I took a stroll in the woods... it was lovely, and I wanted you to see Some of the moments In which a tour was born.
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