Only Pack What You Can Carry
Janice Holly Booth is a Speaker/Writer/Adventurista from North Carolina. Her entertaining keynotes and presentations focus on fear, risk-taking and the transformative power of embracing both. She is the author of Only Pack What You Can Carry (National Geographic), a guide to achieving personal growth through solo adventure travel.
Your personal journey starts today.
What do you want to be when you grow up? At some point, most of us will end up trading a calling for a career; swap building a life for making a living; exchange risk for responsibility. It's the all-too-common path of the dutiful adult. But then comes the day we're invited to reclaim our dream, but we've either forgotten it or never named it in the first place. Fear, ambiguity, discomfort... they are simply emotional obstacles blocking the horizon, beyond which waits the life we really want to live. How to get there when fear and confusion are doing such an excellent job of holding you back? << LEARN MORE
From the Blog, "Jan's Rants"...
Janice Booth has never been accused of not having an opinion. In her blog, "Jan's Rants," she takes you behind the scenes of what it's like to write a book for National Geographic, how it feels to deliberately scare yourself half to death (over and over); to take (and uphold) a vow of silence in the midst of chaos; explore the true meaning of courage, and more. Funny, thoughtful and provocative, Janice's blog strives at all times to be meaningful, worthy of her readers' time, but occasionally she blows her stack and has to vent. Sometimes, those "Detours" are the best blogs of all!
April 16, 2013: THE GUIDANCE OF PAIN
True stories: a little boy decides to show off for his friends by jumping off the first-floor roof of his house. He does. He gets up and says he’s fine but dies the next day from internal bleeding. A teenage girl is in the kitchen stirring ramen noodles on the stove when the spoon << Read More
January 17, 2013: THE ONLY QUESTION WORTH ASKING
THE ONLY QUESTION WORTH ASKING I keep way too much stuff around for way too long, thinking that perhaps that old textbook or travel brochure will come in handy someday. Thus, I have accumulated untold numbers of training booklets, leadership manuals, strategic planning templates, and personnel do’s/don’ts from a 20 year career in the << Read More
November 30, 2012: IS IT BAH OR IS IT BRILLIANT?
November 30, 2012: As of this moment, there are 25 days ’til Christmas, fewer if you’re reading this late. 25 days. If you add weekends, take away sleep time, work time, and exercise, there are only 98 hours left; roughly eight days to decorate, shop and prepare. Feeling a little panicked? Don’t worry. Do what << Read More