Preparing To Leave
Preparing For Your LIP Life: Health Tips
Before we arrived in Panama we had visions of ourselves sashaying around in bikinis and swim trunks with bronzed, sculpted bodies. Humph - didn’t happen.
You know what it’s like…you promise yourself that the “new you” will be different; convinced that when you’re a LIP, you’ll exercise every day, eat really healthily and you’ll cut down [...]
Before we arrived in Panama we had visions of ourselves sashaying around in bikinis and swim trunks with bronzed, sculpted bodies. Humph - didn’t happen.
You know what it’s like…you promise yourself that the “new you” will be different; convinced that when you’re a LIP, you’ll exercise every day, eat really healthily and you’ll cut down on all the bad habits you currently allow yourself to have. And maybe you will.
It’s a smart move to get your body in tip-top condition before you go however to cope with the stresses of travel, constant change, unaccustomed food/drink and, of course, so you can really make the most of your time without worrying about niggling health problems in a strange and foreign country.
Here are my top tips (as a former health coach and personal trainer) to get yourself in shape before you begin the ride of your life…
Avoiding The Scarcity Mentality Whilst Cutting Down Your Outgoings
In the process of creating our LIP life, we went through a period of having to cut down our expenses and tighten our belts - especially immediately after Jonathan was made redundant.
At the same time, we were aiming to create a fabulously abundant life for ourselves as location independent professionals. Problem was, the two goals [...]
In the process of creating our LIP life, we went through a period of having to cut down our expenses and tighten our belts - especially immediately after Jonathan was made redundant.
At the same time, we were aiming to create a fabulously abundant life for ourselves as location independent professionals. Problem was, the two goals were conflicting.
One required an abundant outlook on life - the belief that we could afford to do everything we wanted, achieve our dreams and that we had everything we already wanted. The other required us to restrict what we could have, constantly question what we could afford (and then naturally, what we couldn’t) and focus on cutting back.
LIP Books: What to leave behind
A little while ago I wrote about change and what that means to your comfort zone. One of my creature comforts, and claudia’s for that matter, is being surrounded by plenty of books. We have a lot of them!
As we plan our forthcoming year abroad the obvious question that springs to mind is which books [...]
A little while ago I wrote about change and what that means to your comfort zone. One of my creature comforts, and claudia’s for that matter, is being surrounded by plenty of books. We have a lot of them!
As we plan our forthcoming year abroad the obvious question that springs to mind is which books to leave behind? We can’t take them all! In fact, we will probably be limited to three or four each. Now for a person that has worked (me) and is currently working (claudia) for a publishing house that is like asking Mariah Carey to reduce the number of her entourage to single figures or John Travolta his fleet of planes. It’s all very unsettling!!
Surely I could get by with only using the internet? Yes, I could get by but LIPliving is not about getting by. I want to feel something tangible in my hands. I prefer to flick through rather than click and scroll down sometimes. Don’t you feel the same?
So, in effect this exercise will be one of distilling the quantity down to the very best quality that will suit my needs, which are factual reference for my business and a bit of light-hearted fiction for my down time. As I think I’ve got a lot of very good books this is a difficult task! Read the rest of this entry
What Documents Do You Need On The Road?
Living as a LIP and not having a cosy little home office complete with filing cabinets or in some cases piles of paperwork strewn across your desk, requires you to carry all your important documents with you.
Some of the key, one-off documents we leave at ‘home’ with relatives or locked away in our storage room. [...]
Living as a LIP and not having a cosy little home office complete with filing cabinets or in some cases piles of paperwork strewn across your desk, requires you to carry all your important documents with you.
Some of the key, one-off documents we leave at ‘home’ with relatives or locked away in our storage room. The following ones however, come with us, both as hard documents & scanned copies on our laptops…
Travel-related documents - passports, tickets, boarding passes, a print-out of all our itineraries, a print-out of our travel insurance, driving licences and photocopies of everything.
Business-related documents - such as the bearer shares for our corporation and a copy of the certificate of incorporation.
Property & Possessions-related documents - like receipts for our laptops, Camcorder, Ipod, Camera and anything else of value so we can prove we don’t need to pay duty on anything whenever we return to the UK for a visit.
I’ll be listing a whole lot more in the Facebook group, Lip Living, so join me there for the full list…
