Preparing To Leave
Planning For Crises: What To Do When Your Dream Lifestyle Becomes A Nightmare, Part 3
Photo by _Massimo_
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 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 [...]
Photo by c@rljones
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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The Return Back Home: What To Expect
Photo by Thomas Hawk
I’m writing I wrote this in the UK on our 3rd return ‘home’ since we began our location independent lifestyle.
Each and every time we return, we experience similar things which leave us feeling a range of emotions from frustration and relief to disappointment and joy.
I’m pretty sure we’re not the only ones [...]
Photo by Thomas Hawk
I’m writing I wrote this in the UK on our 3rd return ‘home’ since we began our location independent lifestyle.
Each and every time we return, we experience similar things which leave us feeling a range of emotions from frustration and relief to disappointment and joy.
I’m pretty sure we’re not the only ones who feel like this, so this post is for anyone who has just returned or is about to return ‘home’ from being on the road and to let you know that, yes, we know how you feel…
Putting Together A Portable Office That You Can Take With You Anywhere You Go
Photo by Premshree Pillai
Ideally running your business on the road as a web worker requires nothing more than your laptop and the common online/software tools beloved of modern nomads.
Sometimes however, you really notice the fact that you don’t have your own customised little workspace to work from which houses everything from your dusty collection of [...]
Photo by Premshree Pillai
Ideally running your business on the road as a web worker requires nothing more than your laptop and the common online/software tools beloved of modern nomads.
Sometimes however, you really notice the fact that you don’t have your own customised little workspace to work from which houses everything from your dusty collection of energising crystals (or was that just me?!?) to your trusty collection of reference books.
The first time round we carried a whole load of unnecessary office equipment with us having succumbed to “just in case” fever.
Over the past year we’ve streamlined our portable office to the bare minimum of things we’ve always needed - and if we ever need anything else, we usually just buy it.
Here are the key items that make up the ‘bare essentials’ of a portable office…
