Overdue Update | Lifestyle Design in Action (soon)

June 3, 2009 Health

Hello everyone - I know it’s been a long times since I’ve done and update, in fact nothing since my blogging birthday, but I’ve been very busy with various projects. There are now less than four months until my fiancée and I quit our jobs and head of for an extended career break. I decided [...]

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Happy Blogging Birthday to Me!

April 13, 2009 This Blog
bloggin birthday

Today my blog is 1 year old. Woohoo - I didn’t think I’d make it this long!

Considering when I started blogging I used to read a lot of information about how to grow blogs, and how a lot of them have don’t survive past a few posts I think I have done fairly well. Also [...]

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Initial Concerns about leaving the 9-5 (and how to see the bigger picture).

March 26, 2009 Goals

There comes a day in the life of many 9-5 workers, when you realise that staying static, doing the same job, traveling the same stretch of tarmac to work every day only to be delegated meaningless tasks and earn money for someone else, is not enough. We are conditioned from an early age, throughout our [...]

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Guest Post: Why I Blog, my Lifestyle Project by FrugalNYC

March 19, 2009 Blogging

I’m very please to feature this is a guest post by my Twitter friend FrugalNYC. I’m looking for more guest posters to share an aspect of their Lifestyle Project. If you are interested please let me know!

Why I Blog
So what is the definition of Frugal Living? To me, it is living below your means. Taking [...]

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5 Ways to Begin your Digital Nomad Lifestyle Today

March 2, 2009 Lifestyle Projects

When I look at the Lifestyle Projects that people share on this blog, there is a common theme of wanting to quit the 9-5. People have many reasons for wanting to do this, and it is not necessarily that people don’t want to work, it’s more about escaping the confines of the 9-5 environment and [...]

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No Regrets | Explore. Dream. Discover.

February 25, 2009 Health

For various reasons - I’m keeping the post simple this week. The quote in the image above says all I want to say perfectly - so I thought I’d leave it at that.
Note: Whilst the quote in the above says ‘unknown’ as the source, a quick bit of googling attributes it to Mark Twain.
Have [...]

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When was the last time you did nothing?

February 18, 2009 Misc

I recently realised that during my waking hours, I am always doing something. There is never a time when I am doing nothing. By doing nothing, I mean just having quiet time to think, mull things over or just relax and do nothing.
What is nothing?
To be clear, what I define as doing nothing is just [...]

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Suriving Information Overload [Part One]

February 12, 2009 Latest

In the interests of limiting information overload, and partly because this post turned in to a bit of a rant, I’ve split this article in to several parts.
A few weeks ago I posted about how I was suffering from information overload. I decided to try and dramatically cut down on my consumption of information. Obviously [...]

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What do you do then?

February 1, 2009 Lifestyle Projects

You know the scene well. You turn up at a party or a meet a friend of a friend and the small talk starts. Very early on (if not one of the first things that is said) you hear or ask that question. The question that most people hate to answer. But you answer it [...]

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Blogging Inspirations

January 28, 2009 Blogging

(There are a lot of links to great further reading in this post, so please set aside some time to have a look through them.)
A great blog, and therefore one I am likely to subscribe to is one that I can get lost in for a while. It will in someway connect with me and [...]

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