A morning routine primes your for the day. It is the first thing I do after I wake up to keep me excited and happy about life by staying energized, focused, and sharpIn this post, we cover my meditation practice, explain what meditation is all about, how to meditate, how much time to spend meditating, what you get out of this activity and provide you with resources to get you started within minutes!
What is life like ‘stuck’ in Taiwan during the coronavirus pandemic?
For the month of June, we went on a month-long journey of fast travel to explore the island of Taiwan for a total of 31 days and manage to spend less than $1,800 in doing so!
During this escapade, we based ourselves in three locations: Hualien (9 days), Kaohsiung (14 days) and Taichung (7 days) and checked out a lot of places as we will share in this post. Some of our favorites included the amazing Taroko National Park, the gorgeous sunrise and tea plantations and sunrise in Alishan, the beautiful islands of Tianjin, and Liuqiu, the bike ride in Chihsang and much more!
Steven and Lauren are 29 and 30 respectively. They have been born and raised near Tampa, Florida, and they currently live in Gainesville, Florida — although they also lived in California for 9 months, Hawaii for 6 months, and the back of an ever-moving van for 7 months! Beginning shortly after college graduation, they saved and invested anywhere from 50-90% of their middle-class salaries with a goal of reaching financial independence at a young age.
In this interview you will learn how they managed to retire in their 30s & 40s, the benefit of designing your life early on, their cost of living in Hawaii for 6 months, their 6 steps financial roadmap and everything in between.
If you’ve been reading our blog, you know how much we love numbers and since we ourselves enjoy reading about others’ blog income, we thought we would share our blog income if you’re curious and considering starting your own.
In this article we explain how we monetize our blog, what works, what doesn’t and how much we made in the second quarter of 2020 (which covers the period from 4/1/2020 to 6/30/2020).
Stephanie & Gillian are Canadians. In 2013 they had the typical life of professionals in Canada: solid jobs, a condo, a car, and they spent most of the year looking forward to their 3 weeks of annual vacation when they could explore another part of the world. After many years of fantasizing about working abroad, they agreed on a plan to find jobs in our respective fields in Asia. This relocation led them to some serious burn outs that let them to start going through a life redesign of their own. They soon became full time nomads with their two lovely puddles!
In this interview you will learn how they managed to retire in their 30s & 40s, what led them to decided to travel the world full time, the challenges of traveling with pets and everything in between.
It’s been 2 years since we got married, got rid of all of our stuff and left San Francisco to become nomads and slow travel the world! Year 1 was amazing, we were living out our dream lifestyle to see the world and staying in some really cool cities. Plus, we were able to do all of that for half the cost of living at home in San Francisco. Coming into year 2, we were becoming seasoned nomads and getting into a rhythm of enjoying new places, eating delicious meals, exploring nature, settling into monthly apartments and even making new nomad friends. We learned a lot from year 1 and applied similar money saving techniques such as booking long-term Airbnbs and using airline reward points. We had exciting plans for 2020 but like the rest of the world, we had to quickly adjust when the pandemic hit in March. As a result, we became grounded nomads and had to decide where we wanted to wait things out for the last 4 months of year 2. This also involved canceling a lot of flights and Airbnb bookings.
As full-time travelers, we take a lot of transportation, live in multiple apartments, eat out at restaurants, shop at markets, taste new snacks and enjoy exploring our beautiful planet. Since we explore much more than the average person, our impact on the environment is very much a concern for us. In the article, we share tips on how we reduce our impact on the environment that we apply while we travel but many tips you can easily apply at home.
What is life like ‘stuck’ in Taiwan during the coronavirus pandemic? Strange but wonderful! It feels strange because while most of the world was on pause in May, Taiwan has been moving forward and operating as usual. We dine at restaurants, get on crowded subway rides, explore tourist sites, see students going to school and workers going to work. We feel guilty at times for leading such free lives after we completed our home self-quarantine. If we were back in the US or France, we would still be unable to move around freely and would be constantly worried about possibly spreading the virus to our loved ones so we are very grateful for the freedom we have in Taiwan. So for that, thank you Taiwan!
Clover is a 36 years old flight attendant who resides in Canada. Her story resonated so much that I quickly connected with her through social media where we exchanged information about the nomadic lifestyle. Little did I know that this active and energetic girl was just on the beginning of a much larger transformational journey that we will be discussing in this interview.
I also wanted to have her on our interview series because of her ethnicity, gender and relationship status which all together already come with some stereotypes that will quickly be dismissed because Clover’s hardest challenges in life is what ultimately has led her to live the life she has chosen to live today.
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Since there are a lot of things going on in the world, I thought this might be a good time to give people a break from the daily news and share some techniques that might help them also get the most out of their lives. I will be sharing the key elements of my morning routine in a short series of posts. In this first article, I will be talking about my bullet journaling routine, explaining what journaling is all about, what I am journaling about, how much time I spend on journaling, what I am getting out of this activity and provide you with resources to get you started within minutes!