I’d love to have something passive, while working on something I’m passionate about during the day.

Although I am pursuing traditional (odd use of this word within the context of lifestyle design) online incomes in my spare time (blogs, ebooks, etc), I have spent 14 weeks out of the office in the past year ‘working’ my offline job online from various places I wanted to be (other than the city I work and live in Toronto); New York, Seattle, Hawaii, Calgary, Vancouver. I have not spent more than two weeks out of the offline office at any one go yet, but I plan to take a month somewhere in the fall. My personal goal is to eventually spend 1 month in 4 travelling/learning/experimenting. Between now and my one month trip in the fall I plan to ditch the office for 3 two week tours in the next 5 months. I also work from home at least one day a week when I am in town.

Life style design is about living life on your own terms, not anyone else’s. In my current version of lifestyle design I have an offline job that I do online. I think there is a great fear that 9-5 is nothing but sole crushing, but trust me when I say this; working a 9-5 gig from a laptop on a beach in Hawaii is not so bad.

I like having an address, I like having a home where I have my stuff. I lived 8 months on the road working another offline job online; effectively being the highest paid homeless person I have ever herd off. I liked it for a while but in the end when the economy tuned south and that job evaporated I was happy to sprout some roots and get an address again and stop living out of a duffel bag. My point is that lifestyle design does not have to be all about the eventual success of an online business. Successful lifestyle design is when your living your life on your terms, no mater what those terms are.