You don't have to travel, but I find extended travel to be a helpful tool for reexamining yourself and the constraints you've artificially placed on your life. It's easy to believe everything has to be done one way if you're always in one place around the same people.
Tim FerrissI'll repeat something you might consider tattooing on your forehead: What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.
Tim FerrissBeing busy is a form of laziness - lazy thinking and indiscriminate action. Being busy is most often used as a guise for avoiding the few critically important but uncomfortable actions.
Tim Ferriss