"I know this sounds cliché, but I have to ask—do you really 'find yourself' when you travel?" the girl asked me. Her young friend crouched next to my table, gently stroking the cats as they slept. Café Neko is a small coffee shop in Vienna that allows cats to wander...
The Digital Nomad’s Roadmap – A Complete Guide: Successfully Live, Work, and Travel Anywhere
So you wanna be a digital nomad. I’m not surprised: the future is bright for freelancers and location independent workers. Statistics show 40% of Americans will be contingent workers by 2020. That’s a lot of potential for digital nomads! Yet there’s no hands-on guide...
Dreams Are Like Pirate Treasure: Hard to Find, But Worth the Risk
All dreams start somewhere and typically, no matter the size of the overall dream, most dreams start small. Let’s say yours is to feel better at work every day. You focus on sitting up straight in week one. Week two finds you taking a 10-minute walk at lunchtime. Week...
A Modern-Day Nomad’s Guide: How to Leave Everything Behind and Start Over
I want to start over. I need a new life. I want to go somewhere far away. You’ve reached a major turning point in your life. For one reason or another, you want to say goodbye to your old life and start a new chapter. This is not a decision to be made lightly, but at...
How to Live Alone in a Foreign City: I Don’t Speak the Language!
Almost everything I owned was strapped to my person. I gripped my one-way ticket as I stood at my gate in the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. The rental car turned in. Draped in three different jackets to beat the checked bag weight restrictions, I triple...
How to Attain Jaw Dropping Goals: Organize Your Steps, Week by Week
Some days it seems as if everyone else is doing so much better than we are. How is that everyone has it together, while we’re just floundering? Good news! You’re not alone. First of all, they all feel the same way. Second, you can end the pity party and begin working...
The Power of Intent: How to Turn Your Dreams Into Reality and Achieve Your Goals
Humanity is cursed with self-awareness. We want to live intentionally, we want to feel fulfilled, we seek purpose and meaning in everything. We fear emptiness, the void where a sense of self should be. We loathe the idea that we could wander through life only to...
Do Things Your Way (Or, What Is A Decision?)
Decisions are incredibly personal. We each make a million a day and tend to live with the consequences. Both of our own decisions, and that of those around us. The Nature Of Decisions There are big decisions, there are small decisions. There are decisions that...
A Few Words on Existence and the Onward March of Time
I am tucked away in the corner of a coffee shop: observing, thinking, writing. I don’t know how many times they’ll let me get away with starting my stories this way. It seems to begin here most days. It used to be a café and bakery in the early hours before work. Over...