Archive | June, 2009

The No B.S. Guide To Designing Your Own Life

Editor’s note: this is a guest post from Derek Johanson of Live Uncomfortably. I’ll be bringing you more guest articles from people with different voices who are designing and living their own ultimate lifestyles. Contact me to write one yourself.

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Who’s shaping your life, your reality, your social and financial decisions? Is it your boss? Your friends? Your parents? Why don’t you design a life of your own? Something that fulfills you and not someone else.

The sad truth is that most of us design a life that is not ours – it’s society’s.

For most of my teens and into my early twenties I followed the mold. I went to college, started a career after school, and like many my age began to question the point of it all. I quickly realized I wasn’t living MY life. I was living someone else’s.

So I quit, packed a bag, and traveled. I did what I wanted to do everyday and I still am. Life is for me and life is beautiful.

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Share Your Perspective: The Location Independent and Digital Nomad Survey

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To those of you interested in the location independent or nomadic aspects of lifestyle design, we would like to ask for a moment of your help.

Do you ever wonder how many people out there are really location independent? Do you have questions about what they do for a living, how much they work or where they live?

Here is your chance to get answers to those questions.

Free Pursuits and Location Independent are hosting a survey about location independence and digital nomads. We hope you will help the community by completing the survey.

You don’t have to already be location independent to participate. If you’re an aspiring digital nomad or location independent, we also have questions for you.

By participating in the survey, you’ll help all of us better understand the community and to find out how we can better help each other. We’ll also send you a copy of the summarized results.

I want to help! Take me to the survey.

Did I mention that there are 19 blogs participating in the survey? Each of the participating blogs is helping to spread the word to their readers and will be writing about the results later this month.

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Welcome Readers from Location Independent

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Location Independent just published a guest post that I wrote about how taking a sabbatical can be a great way to start a new life of location independence. I would like to take this moment to welcome anyone reading Free Pursuits for the first time.

This blog is all about lifestyle design. We try to answer the general question, “why wait until you’re rich or retired to live the life you really want to live?”

For some, living the life you really want to live might mean becoming location independent or a digital nomad.

For others, it may mean finding more time to spend with friends or family, or to help others less fortunate. Still for others, the good life might involve fulfilling your creative passions or jet-setting around the globe.

Whatever your case may be, this blog will show you how people are using creativity and technology to live the good life now.

Welcome! Please take a minute to look around.

Here are some posts to get you started:

If you like what you see, please subscribe to receive free updates. I also encourage you to share your perspective in the comments.

photo by Mika Hiironniemi

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