You’ve Arrived! (TRIP: Chapter Ten)
By Steve Lear
While several versions of the TRIP decision-making process are available on this site (see the short Outline or complete Manual), we’re also spotlighting the content in individual chapters, making it easier for readers to get a step-by-step understanding of TRIP’s benefits. Let’s complete the journey!
In our final chapter, You’ve Arrived!, learn why it’s valuable to have a post-TRIP discussion about your experiences, and receive some parting words of wisdom.
DISCUSSING YOUR POST-TRIP EXPERIENCE
Keeping a travel journal of your experiences will help you recall key events on your TRIP. You can build this along the way or when you reach your final destination (goal).
Journaling is an exercise that channels the intense energy of both positive and negative situations on your TRIP into a tool for learning and growth. Writing in a journal allows you to stop the action, spotlight the situation, analyze what did and didn’t work, brainstorm strategies and solutions, and then design a system to communicate with others.
Journaling, when used consistently, becomes a powerful way to transform your experiences into lessons for the future. It encourages Travelers to think proactively. It can be done by one person or in a group setting. From journaling, innovative talents will yield new solutions, improved systems, deepened relationships, and restored confidence.
Please see The Experience Transformer (Appendix 9, page 38*) for a sample journal page with questions for the group to answer.
A FINAL WORD
TRIP seems like a linear process, but the recommended tools and how you’ll use them are not. Everything happens in its own time. As team members and leadership analyze their situations, they can plug into the various parts of the process at the time that’s right for the team.
In closing, TRIP is a process I recommend from personal experience. When my financial planning firm started using it in 2018, we began to gain traction. Using it has given us a vision for the future, stakeholder participation, and renewed energy for our mission.
My passion is to bring these same benefits to every organization facing important decisions.
TRIP is a roadmap showing you a way to get things done faster and with less frustration. I hope it will help you to increase engagement, make better decisions, and resolve more challenges.
Whether you want to travel alone or with a Tour Guide, TRIP will help you overcome obstacles and achieve your goals. May you find success and joy on the journey!
*NOTE: To see Appendix 9 (page 35), or to review TRIP terminology (Glossary, pages 24-25), download TRIP at the link shown below.
