Expert advice, what not to do

The Resources section of the text offers the travel writer advice from 100 freelance journalists. Carlo Alcos offers some good advice for the travel journalist in the article What Not to Do. Here’s one of his pieces of advice,

DO listen to yourself and be authentic to what your gut tells you.

Society these days is “noisy.” We’re being bombarded with information through news, websites, advertisements, social media; pulled and yanked in this direction and that direction. It’s enough to give you whiplash. It can be extremely hard to shut out the static and turn inward, into yourself to listen to what it is that you actually want. Go for a run; meditate; do some yoga; take a walk in the forest. Ask yourself questions and sense how your body reacts — your physiological responses like increased heart rate, a “funny feeling in your stomach”, a throbbing in your head. Your body knows before your brain does. Listen to it.