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The Characteristics of a Happy LIP
Flexible and adaptable - you can’t be a stressball about having to have your life planned out 12 months in advance, you’ll hate being a LIP (this used to be me, it isn’t now!).
Organised & a careful researcher/planner - working out flights, layover hotels, pre-booked accommodation etc. etc. requires some careful research, planning & forethought. You learn as you go along but the more organised you are about it to begin with the less time you’ll spend re-visiting that same site over & over & over again looking for that nugget of information you knew you saw once.
Good at making decisions - this is a MUST have. It can get very tiring & draining having to make constant decisions about where to next (obviously this only happens if you’re not really happy with where you are). The important thing we’ve learned is to make a decision and then action it.
Smile-y - another MUST have if you want to make friends, have people be nice & friendly to you and give a good impression of yourself to the locals whose country you’re in.
Adventurous - with food, with language, with experiences. There’s no point going somewhere new if you’re going to be scared to try new things & stay in your apartment all the time. Left to my own devices I can go for days without leaving my house (my record when we lived in our apartment in Nottingham was 5 straight days without leaving it - it was a very nice apartment) - but living in Grenada at the moment I live for the times we can jump in the jeep, go exploring for a new beach or down to our favourite coffee place.
Easygoing & go-with-the-flow - again, not really a natural one for me although the Caribbean influence is definitely rubbing off. Things will sometimes go wrong - flights will be delayed, plans won’t work out - as a L.I.P it generally really doesn’t matter as long as it doesn’t cost you tons more money. We find nowadays that if we miss a flight (not that we have yet) or things don’t quite fit together, it really doesn’t bother us - we have plenty of time, are generally never in a rush for anything and it’s all part of the journey.
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