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Location independence
http://locationindependent.com/the-12-week-challenge/
It's a poncey execution, and I think if people need a 12-week hand-holding fest to motivate them to achieve this they're not the right people to try in the first place, BUT, location independence is something I have very nearly achieved, and I *do* feel much more free/unburdened because of it. How about you - will it ever be on the cards?
"Being location independent is a concept, a lifestyle and a mindset.
It’s a lifestyle based on the freedom to choose. Whether you choose to live a nomadic life, you want to spend more time at home with the kids, move to an exotic location or you simply want to be able to work from the coffee shop down the road, the location independent lifestyle gives you the freedom to choose a lifestyle that works for you blah blah latte iPod."
"if you’re aiming to become location independent, a professional illustrator or a successful health & wellness professional (or a combination of all 3)"
fuck off, hippies
ooh time for a cheeky volvic
yep. I hover 26 ft above the earth's surface using a random number generator
and changing my latitude/longitude accordingly ever 3.14 seconds.
I've never felt more alive and able to conduct wellness professionally!
*boiling with rage*
"Last weekend, I was lying on a sun lounger next to our 185 sq m pool, soaking up the hot Mediterranean sun and trying *not* to think about anything business- or work-related. Typical me though, within 10 minutes the cogs were whirring and I had a brainwave."
SHUTUPSHUTUPSHUTUPSHUTUP
typical
Doing work on holiday again - naughty me! *slaps wrist*
"Can I just throw an idea grenade into the room?"
there's part of me would love to hear someone say this, and another part that would loathe it.
Let me stick this in your intellectual toaster and see what pops up
That's gotten me several dates
and unwanted pregnancies.
I'm sorry, what the hell is this about?
Is it a 12-week course telling you how to move house?
It's kind of trying to help you not to be tied to anywhere, basically
so how to be homeless
but still middle class and pretty well off then?
Yep.
apart from your own rapidly-inflating balloon of self-importance, NATCH
The Wealthiest Hobo
There's a voice
that keeps on calling me
on Amex Gold, it's where I'll always be.
Every step I take, I buy a new friend.
Get planning permission, sell up my house and I'm gone again.
Maybe tomorrow, I'll want to settle down.
But til tomorrow, I'm going to get blotto on Krug.
I see.
That is a nice idea. What do they tell you on the course? I imagine they try to break your spirit and then make you forget any attachments you have and then they make you burn all your photographs and possessions. And then you have to buy a iPad.
BTW, when you say "location independence is something I have very nearly achieved" you sound like a scientologist or something.
"Just another £10,000 so I can get to the next level!
...and see the caves that unlocked the mythical power of Xynthar."
"when you say "location independence is something I have very nearly achieved" you sound like a scientologist or something"
^THIS
Hahaha yeah I do don't I
You joke about cutting ties, but there were seminars in london for richies a while back saying: if you leave now and go somewhere tax free, you're quids in, BUT you have to not come back, and have to keep family contact low/move them with you, because the tax man has some pretty large encompassing ideas about what qualifies as 'living' here.
Is this like that 4-Hour Work Week thing?
I read a bit of that, the key to it seemed to be paying intelligent graduates in India a shockingly small wage to do all your work for you. It was pretty appalling.
I can't access the link from work for some reason
but I think I get the gist. I think it sounds rubbish. I like having roots, it's grounding. We are NOT doing this, ok? :)
Hahaha it's not encouraging people to uproot
It's saying: if you know that you have a revenue stream wherever you are, it means there's no more worries. You can do what you like when the time's exactly right, and not have to wait.
Obvious, really. BUT my friend is doing it in his own way:
http://avengerpenguin.com/Location-Independence/12-Week-Challenge.html
Ah ok.
First stop, the dordogne?
And last stop. Yes.