Becoming A Location Independent Professional
Lifestyle Design - A Framework And Guide To The Blogosphere That Will Help You Do It
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If you’re reading this blog post and you follow this blog then the chances are that you, like me, are a bit of a blog addict and also probably a blogger yourself - or thinking about it!
But if the past few months back in the corporate world have taught me anything, it’s that [...]
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If you’re reading this blog post and you follow this blog then the chances are that you, like me, are a bit of a blog addict and also probably a blogger yourself - or thinking about it!
But if the past few months back in the corporate world have taught me anything, it’s that the vast majority of people in the real world still don’t ‘get’ blogs yet alone follow any (and probably save themselves a huge amount of time in the process or waste it on something else).
Having spent the best part of 3 months being forced to take a step back from the blogosphere, I’ve had to get brutal with my feedreader and cull my feeds down to a bare minimum of the ones I really do want to read.
My criteria for the great big blog cull? Does this blog continually add value to my life and help me achieve the things I want to achieve or is it just fluff? Know how many made the cut? Just 6 (out of over 100).
But what does streamlining a feed reader have to do with lifestyle design?
Planning For Crises: What To Do When Your Dream Lifestyle Becomes A Nightmare, Part 3
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In the first part of this post, I covered what to do when you realise that you’re not enjoying the experience of your location independent lifestyle; we then looked at what to do when a lack of funds threatens to end your dream lifestyle and finally in this part, we’re going to take [...]
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In the first part of this post, I covered what to do when you realise that you’re not enjoying the experience of your location independent lifestyle; we then looked at what to do when a lack of funds threatens to end your dream lifestyle and finally in this part, we’re going to take a look at what to do if something awful happens.
This is a tactic your friends and family might throw at you when you’re in the exploration and planning mode of lifestyle design - particularly something as unconventional as a nomadic, location independent lifestyle.
They’ll invent all sorts of weird and wonderful scenarios to put you off taking the plunge…
- But what if there’s an earthquake/tsunami/other natural disaster when you’re there?
- But what if something happens back home that we need you for?
- But what if you get ill or have an awful accident?
So let’s take look at each of these in a bit more detail…
Planning For Crises: What To Do When Your Dream Lifestyle Becomes A Nightmare, Part 2
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The first part of this post focused on what to do if you get on the road and find you hate it. In this part we’ll look at what to do if you love your nomadic, location independent lifestyle but your money runs out and you can’t keep going…
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The first part of this post focused on what to do if you get on the road and find you hate it. In this part we’ll look at what to do if you love your nomadic, location independent lifestyle but your money runs out and you can’t keep going…
Planning For Crises: What To Do When Your Dream Lifestyle Becomes A Nightmare, Part 1
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Being location independent = living the dream lifestyle of a nomadic web worker, gadding from beach to beach and setting up office wherever the mood takes you. Unfortunately the reality isn’t always as good as the dream.
And whilst our own nomadic lifestyle hasn’t yet turned on us after 18 months of lifestyle design [...]
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Being location independent = living the dream lifestyle of a nomadic web worker, gadding from beach to beach and setting up office wherever the mood takes you. Unfortunately the reality isn’t always as good as the dream.
And whilst our own nomadic lifestyle hasn’t yet turned on us after 18 months of lifestyle design at its finest, I’m currently stuck in the middle of my own mini nightmare…wings clipped and committed to a consulting job for 6 months in one city (even if it is the beautiful Cape Town).
But for those of you still in the planning stages to take your show on the road and become a nomadic web worker, one of the big challenges is overcoming the fear of the “What Ifs”. If you’re anything like us, you’ve already made a list of the pros & cons of your ideal lifestyle…maybe focusing in on all the things that could go wrong which would scupper your plans.
If this “what if…” list scares the living daylights out of you, possibly even preventing you from taking the plunge in the first place, let’s take a step back and look at those “what ifs…”
Break it down, and you’ll find that there are only really 3 main reasons why your dream could turn into a nightmare…
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