Life Is Awesome

I have to admit, I’ve been obsessed with reading all these lifestyle design/leave your job/personal development/go travel and do what you want blogs. I suppose a lot of other people have the same obsession as they all seem to have decent readerships. Perhaps it is the desire to live vicariously through people who are living boldly and doing what the rest of us only wish we could do.

I know that what drives me to read these blogs is the desire I have to work for myself. All of these people are doing exactly what they want – most of them creating an income on their own terms to finance their travel and unconventional lifestyles. Their success in creating income without having traditional jobs inspires me to do the same thing. Instead of wanting to go find a full-time job and join the “rat race” I want to follow all of these people in creating my own job so I can do what I want, do what I love.

My path probably won’t be the same as most of theirs. I’m not planning on moving to Thailand anytime soon, nor do I really want to. I’m not planning a round-the-world trip, nor do I really want to. I’m not trying to drop out of working so I can travel all the time. I probably will end up moving abroad again, partly because I love living abroad, partly because my current relationship. I love the idea of living in another country, in a beautiful location, but I like that idea of settling there. I’ve moved around enough in the last five years that I am starting to crave the stability of living in just one place. I want to work for myself and be able to travel when I want, but I don’t want travel to be my whole life. Travel just to travel, to mark countries off a list, doesn’t seem as appealing to me as it used to be.

So my path is a little different than a lot of the nomadic bloggers I’ve been reading. I’m hoping to be an expat more than I want to be a round the world traveler. I’m craving new experiences and a new culture, but I’m also craving roots. But I still find the blogs to be an amazing source of inspiration for me in regards to creating my own income online without having a job and living where I want. Watching their stories unfold as they do what they want to do helps me feel more sure that I can do this on my own terms as well.

The future of this blog will be the exploration and documentation of this journey, wherever it leads me. I’m trying to create my own “job”, earning money online through blogging and freelance writing. I’m trying to eventually move abroad and include a little bit of travel in my life as well. I’m trying to do what I want instead of what people tell me I should be doing. I’m trying to be one of those bloggers who others look at and say, “Wow, she really does do what she wants to do. That’s pretty cool.” And I know I will be, however long it takes me to make it happen.

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