Archive for December, 2007
5 Lessons Learnt From The Rat Race That Apply To A Location Independent Business
One day I’m working for a multi-billion dollar company in a state of the art office, using the latest technology to help wealthy individuals make $1 million net per month; the next I ‘m working for myself from a small one bedroom flat with only a $700 laptop for support. What a difference a [...]
One day I’m working for a multi-billion dollar company in a state of the art office, using the latest technology to help wealthy individuals make $1 million net per month; the next I ‘m working for myself from a small one bedroom flat with only a $700 laptop for support. What a difference a day makes!
I left the rat race because I no longer wanted to be constrained by petty rules, the rigid structure and the banal corporate culture; when I left I promised myself that I wasn’t going to look back.
A year on however, I’ve realised that I learnt a great deal from my corporate days that, at the time, I didn’t think I would need to apply as a Location Independent Professional who had escaped the rat race and would never look back. I was wrong!
Here are 5 things I learned in the rat race that are useful for a Location Independent life and business… Read the rest of this entry
10 Useful Foreign Language Phrases To Know As A Location Independent Professional
Hopefully none of you will do what we did and rock up to a new country speaking zero words of the language.
In our defence, everything we’d read about Panama said it was English speaking but what they really meant was that educated professionals such as doctors, lawyers and all the people you hope not to [...]
Hopefully none of you will do what we did and rock up to a new country speaking zero words of the language.
In our defence, everything we’d read about Panama said it was English speaking but what they really meant was that educated professionals such as doctors, lawyers and all the people you hope not to see speak English, whereas the people you’d really like to speak English (in restaurants, bars, hotels, taxis) don’t!
Here are 10 of the most useful phrases you might need to know for your location independent life both before you arrive and when you’re at your first destination…
(Whether you can understand the responses is another matter entirely, but at least you’ll know you’re asking for the right things and when in doubt…point and smile!) Read the rest of this entry
The Rules of LIP Living And Being Location Independent
I have had several emails recently asking about the concept of being location independent - whether it’s about constant travelling and moving around to new places; whether it’s about living in one place and working with clients in another; or whether it’s about having 2 or 3 different bases around the world that you travel [...]
I have had several emails recently asking about the concept of being location independent - whether it’s about constant travelling and moving around to new places; whether it’s about living in one place and working with clients in another; or whether it’s about having 2 or 3 different bases around the world that you travel between.
The answer?
LIP living and being location independent is exactly what you want it to be. It’s about freedom of choice and living outside of the conventional rules that most people follow.
These are the concepts which I believe are relevant to living your life as a Location Independent Professional… Read the rest of this entry
Rounding Up Our First Year As Location Independent Professionals
Hands up if you’ve been following this blog (or a form of it) right from the beginning of our journey way back in February this year…. Any hands up? Nope, didn’t think so!
If you did, you’d know that it started out as not much more than a review of the apartments we stayed in and [...]
Hands up if you’ve been following this blog (or a form of it) right from the beginning of our journey way back in February this year…. Any hands up? Nope, didn’t think so!
If you did, you’d know that it started out as not much more than a review of the apartments we stayed in and the places we’d been. What a difference a few months make, eh?
Our first year as location independent professionals is almost at an end and I thought I’d do a visual round-up of our first year as LIPs and pick out some of our snaps from each of the places we’ve lived this year… Read the rest of this entry
