Editors note: The following is a guest article written by Chip Kohrman, founder of Telesaur. Chip was one of the winners of our recent guest post contest. Find out more about Chip at the end of the post.

It’s been decades since I heard a good nursery rhyme before bed, but I’ve relearned them for my own children. Nursery rhymes are like a circus: senior citizens living in shoes, visually impaired mice, personified cutlery running around town. The kids love it.

And really, who can ignore Humpty Dumpty? Shell shocked and shattered, all over the ground, with a bunch of horses trying to put his fragmented frame back together again? By the way, those were the king’s horses… and you know those royal steeds had saddles full of cash.

Couldn’t they have just outsourced it all to someone with opposable thumbs?

Someday, you too will hunch over a big pile of Dumpty, with nothing but your hooves. In preparation for that day, we can learn three things from Humpty Dumpty’s fall.

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Some people have commented around the web lately that most of the lifestyle design resources out there tend to focus on the younger crowd. I would agree, most lifestyle design bloggers seem to be in the Gen-Y camp. Not all (I happen to be closer to Gen-X than Gen-Y), but most are under 30.

Why is that? Are most of the people pursuing lifestyle design really that young? It could be that the people talking about lifestyle design are younger, but in fact plenty of “older people” are also trying to radically change their lives too.

Or, it could be that pursuing an alternative lifestyle design just gets more difficult as you get older. Life’s pressures and responsibilities mount and radically changing your life becomes harder and harder.

Is that really true? At what age is it hardest to radically change your life?

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The lifestyle design community tends to think about lifestyle design as something that involves working online. I personally am working towards supporting myself by working online, as are all the bloggers I know.

In “real life” however, I rarely meet people who actually earn a living online. For example, in Mexico we’ve met dozens of people who aren’t rich or retired and who live down here for 3-6 months each year. None of those people earn a living online. I’ve written about many of them and their unconventional lifestyles before.

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