“The road was given for this purpose, so that the soul’s attention does not sleep…” D.A. SukharevI love to travel. One could even say that I really love traveling, if only I did it more often. And in the love of travel there is, of course, just a desire to rest, relax, not deal with boring everyday issues, get away from a busy work schedule, change the environment, turn off the phone, just get some sleep, finally... But the most important thing, in my opinion, is what travel gives me – this is an opportunity to change – albeit temporarily – the usual picture of the world, to become someone else for a while, to discover something new, unknown, unexpected in yourself and in the world. And when I started coaching, I suddenly saw a lot in common - yes, a lot in common between coaching and traveling. Don't believe me? Let's look together....Waiting and anticipation. How the decision to take a new trip is made. People travel in different ways. Someone, even having already packed a suitcase or backpack, is still drawn to the usual way of life “here”. He doesn’t part with his phone, he winces at the thought of the inconveniences of the road... Someone is so easy-going that he “takes off” on the road in a split second - on a last-minute tour, in the last carriage, wherever his eyes look... Someone - and I’m just one of these people loves not only to travel, but also to plan a trip. Why do I love planning trips? In the distant, still tourist past, we called this process “dance with cards.” Long before the summer holidays, on long, dark February evenings, a group of the most irrepressible dreamers would gather over a cup of tea and, having laid out a map of the country on the floor, crawl around it with a magnifying glass and a tourist guide until midnight. We looked for a river, region, direction that was interesting to us, argued, sometimes quarreled, looked for a compromise and often found it. Why was this necessary - and already there, at the stage of dreaming about the route - everyone answered - for now, for themselves, in the depths of their souls - to a very important question - what do I actually want from this journey. Realization of your sports skills, new exotic species for the camera, good fishing, a surge of adrenaline..... So, in arguments, sorting through maps, looking at other people's photographs from routes, reading archives and notes, the request for travel crystallized. This is how the frame of the final result was formed. Values, internal aspirations, unspoken, sometimes unconscious expectations turned into goals. Sports tourism is a serious thing, mistakes there are often fraught with very unpleasant consequences, and perhaps that is why the goal has been “smarted” quite carefully. Time, place, project budget, kilograms of equipment and food layout were carefully measured and calculated. Dozens of maps and photographs of those who walked this path before us were examined and remembered. The goal became concrete, became a “living” picture, and acquired details. And the better the goal was set, the more vivid, interesting, and memorable the journey itself became. Isn’t the coach doing the same thing, helping the champion in the first sessions or in the first minutes of the session to formulate his request, to crystallize his values, anxieties, dreams, wishes - and turn them into an end result frame to make the journey to achieving that goal exciting, efficient, safe...The route. Achieving the goal. Planned and spontaneous...Time X. Starting point. Things are packed, tickets are in hand, the flight is two hours away. I ordered a taxi to the airport (after all, travel is different, I haven’t gone on sports trips for a long time, but I also start planning any vacation trip several weeks in advance, spending evenings on sites with reviews, maps and photographs). The laptop contains the coordinates of hotels, museum schedules, descriptions of “radial” routes, key points - where you must get to, backup options - what to do if there is time left... Why write and plan everything in such detail - you ask. Perhaps someday, when I have a lot of free time, I will master a new type of travel - “go,. :)