The cruise lets you stop in beautiful places that will amaze you, and you may even be inspired to move to these locations. You are getting out of your comfort zone by taking a long cruise, and the cruise will give you ideas for a new future. The transatlantic cruise that you have planned will help you change your life for the better. You will go to new places, meet new people, and decide to change your life on this trip. Visit- https://www.mippin.com/how-traveling-the-seas-can-change-your-life-and-help-you-refresh-your-spirit/

When you need to refresh your spirit, start over, or change your life, sailing the world is the answer. There are a few tips below that explain why a cruise or sailing excursion can change your life. You may not know what is coming next, but these cruising/sailing tips will help you achieve the clarity that you need. Plus, you will feel like a changed person when you get back home after days or even weeks at sea.

Cruises Take You Away From Reality

Once you get on a cruise ship or sailboat, you will leave reality behind. The only people who know what it is like to live at-sea are the employees on the boat. Because of this, you will feel like you are in another world. The boat feels foreign, and you need time to adjust to your new surroundings.

However, trips like transatlantic cruise sailings give you time to reflect on your life, your path, and what you want to do next. You may need time to decide what you will do when you get home because you are content with your life for the most part. However, you may need time to decide what to do next because you want to change jobs, move, get divorced, find love, or do something completely different with your life.

You Will See New Places

Taking a big cruise will allow you to see new places that you would never have seen on your own. The cruise lets you stop in beautiful places that will amaze you, and you may even be inspired to move to these locations. You might meet people that you will call friends for years to come, or you might get a business idea that you can take home.

You are getting out of your comfort zone by taking a long cruise, and the cruise will give you ideas for a new future. You could sail up the coast of Canada before crossing to England, and you might want to move to the Nova Scotia coast when you get home because it is the place you need to be for the next chapter of your life.

You Will Find Out What You Miss

A long trip like this teaches you what you miss and what you do not miss. You will take time to contact certain people when the ship stops, or you may send pictures to people that you love. However, you will discover that you do not miss other things about your home life.

You may decide that you need to end a relationship, or you may be inspired to quit your job. You might decide that you need to reconnect with someone that you want to share the cruise with, or you may start planning future vacations you want to take with people that you care about. The cruise teaches you what you truly value so that you can prioritize your life when you get home.

You Have Time To Read And Journal

You can spend on your cruise reading and journaling. You may prefer to commit your thoughts to paper, or you might read a book that you have meant to get around to. Because of this, your transatlantic cruise sailings might give birth to the writing you always wanted to do, or you might be inspired by the book you just read. You can reconnect with your inner self, and you might find new passions that you did not know you had. You never have time to journal or read like you will on a long cruise.

Conclusion

The transatlantic cruise that you have planned will help you change your life for the better. You will go to new places, meet new people, and decide to change your life on this trip. Plus, you can reconnect with your inner self so that you can go home with plans to do the things that are most important to you.

Now from a lot of the books I've read recently on improving my life, I've noticed that they suggest trying one new thing at a time.  Theresa Cheung suggests doing all 21 of these at a time.  And if you fail to do them for the 21 days straight you have to start again.  I believe this is what is called setting someone up to fail.

Secondly; getting out of bed earlier isn't a ritual, nor is taking a selfie to me a ritual.  These are just two of the HABITS she suggests trying, some are a bit more ritualistic but to me a ritual style bath, for example, involves laying out the soft robes for afterwards, selecting a candle and bath smells, picking the book(s) and drink and music and turning off notifications before slipping into the warm water and r e l a x. That's more of a ritual and what I kinda expected out of this book.  How to make the experiences of your life more special.

I also spotted that one of the cititations was from the Daily Fail.  Really?

It might suit someone looking to inject a little something more into their lives but, and it's a big but, I would do a few at a time, they're split into morning, evening and night and I'd pick one from each to try for 21 days and then maybe add more, but it's very prescriptive and not everyone functions the same.  We are not all interchangeable and ritual should exhalt that not swallow it.

So I swore through this whole damn book. Seriously.

I have really enjoyed Stacey Ballis's past works. She can describe food and how to cook certain dishes in such a way that you will have to go and get something to snack on while reading. Also hopefully you have some wine to sip as you go. But I really wanted to take her by the hands and ask her some questions about how she portrayed some of the key African American characters in this book. I don't think it was intentional, but I was over it. And I think the main plot such as it was, was not a bit realistic at all. And some of the same dialogue used by the male hero in this one, was used by the same character in her book "Off the Menu." I even went and checked a few things back and forth between that book and this one and said oh well I guess it's nice she's reusing RJ's commentary. 

The main character is Eloise. She is a private chef to a very wealthy family and has another long time client as well. She has not dated in years since her last break-up broke her heart. When she finds out her favorite teacher has passed away, Eloise reconnects with her two high school friends, Teresa and Lynne. The three friends have grown out of touch, though Teresa and Lynne have kept in sporadic contact. When Eloise finds a list she made about what she wanted to accomplish by the age of 40, her three other friends agree that they want to knock some things off their list before their birthdays in May. This leads Eloise to finding and dating a guy who is too perfect by far (and yeah, he is) and leads to some conflict with Lynne. 

I will say that there was too much going on in this book. We have Eloise doing her bet with the friends, finding and dating a guy, teaching one of the kids that she cooks for privately how to train for a celebrity cooking show, reading about her attempts to stay active, draw, write, etc., I just didn't care after a while. But really, what got me is that this book started to read a bit too self help for me to enjoy.

Eloise really sticks her nose in the air about what Lynne is doing and I hated how Ballis portrayed her in this book. There was no nuance at all to be had. Eloise is right, Lynne is wrong. There is some bullshit let's say everything we hate about each other crap that Teresa pulls and I got so mad. You don't do that type of shit to people and than somehow everyone loves each other again. I wish that the book had been more honest that the people you are friends with in high school are not the friends you would choose as an adult. 

I also didn't even get why people kept telling Eloise to keep Lynne in her life. Lynne was terrible (based on the little we see of her) and there is no point in keeping someone you haven't spoken to in 20 years in your life. The way that Ballis tries to have her cake and eat it too (hey your long time friends are to be put up with even when they are acting like assholes, but also want more things than money and status) drove me up the wall. 

And here is where I want to ask Ballis some questions. Did she think it was stereotypical how she portrayed Lynne? Lynne is shown as some light skinned black woman who was all about money/status and didn't really give a crap about love. That Lynne sounded like a woman who wanted to forget her past and deny her black self and Eloise and the author via her give her shit for that.

I don't know enough about Lynne for why she is the way she is, but I hated how one of the few black characters we get in this book is shown in a terrible light when I actually sympathized with her a lot. For many black woman if we are not married, we prove ourselves over and beyond at work. Lynne seems to kick ass at her job, but Ballis shows her as too obsessed with doing well at her job. She gets a bit cartoony after a while and I just got over it. Black women are always being portrayed as either highly emotional or cold. Articulate (read white) or way too black. I could go on and on about things that I was like, oh lord about and just struggled to move on from. 

The other African American character, a love interest of Eloise is named Shawn and I rolled my damn eyes at the guy. First of all, I like that Ballis didn't have him speaking "ghetto" but he also sure didn't have what I would call an authentic voice to me. I say this because I said above, some of the phrases and things he does sounds like a previous character in her works. And Ballis breezes past the interracial relationship aspect real quick. Just asks one white character how did they deal with this when they were dating/married and it was all just be honest with each other.

Man. There's honesty and reality. And interracial relationships are hard. There are things you won't get and vice versa. All you need is love is great in concept, and hard in reality. I know a ton of interracial couples and they have to deal with the everyday mess they get from total strangers and family members. 

There is also another aspect that would be spoiling things about Shawn that I was 100 percent done with when revealed in the book. Sorry.

The writing was typical Ballis and I have to say that all of the recipes sounded awesome. But if not for the food descriptions I would have DNFed this book.

I think the book should have been edited further down past what we got since most of the book started to just be repetitive after a while with Eloise's conflicts with Lynne. 

The ending didn't move me at all and I can say that I will not be re-reading this in the future. 

I thought this was a fun, light read and I enjoyed the friendship aspect of this novel. They were close friends in high school and soon they grew apart. Now they are back in their hometown for the funeral of the high school teacher who brought them together. Each of the three young ladies feels content with their life but after conversing with one another, they each decide that there are a few things they would like to change. The friends also have suggestions for each other, on how they can improve their lives. With forty just around the corner, the three friends make a pact to try to change or improve their lives using their own ideas and their friend's suggestions. I liked how these ladies pushed each other and encouraged each other as they tried to make these changes in their lives. They tried to be supportive to each other yet there were some ill feelings that were being harbored inside about each other which eventually had to come out. They had always been honest with one another and they wanted to keep it that way. Not one of them is perfect, they all had issues they wanted to change to improve their life yet for them to change who they had been for almost forty years, it takes initiative and hard work. I liked listening to them and reading how they went about this pact although the novel soon grew to be centered around Eli. Some friendships are priceless and I like how these three tried to regain the friendship they had back in high school as they wanted that closeness again. It was an enjoyable read and I recommend it.