From Monk to Time Millionaire
From Monk to Time Millionaire
A Digital Nomad's Journey Across Seven Seas
One day my life will flash before my eyes. I am making sure it's worth watching. My life hasn't gotten better by chance; it's gotten better by change. By changing nothing, nothing changes. When in doubt, I always have chosen change. All these changes, however, were preceded by chaos, and the bridges I burned, have lit the way.
Yet, at what point is choice—the watermark of individual freedom and self-determination that we so cherish—becomes a point of diminishing returns, a "problem" instead of a solution? That is the paradox of choice.
There is no YES, in yesterday, and when you are sailing, you are what you are right there and then. My bizarre travel plans have been dancing lessons from God. As soon as anyone starts telling me to be realistic, I cross that person off my invitation list.
We are still friendly but no longer friends because they don't get IT that if you are not living on the edge, you are taking up too much space.
The Joy in the Freedom of Losing Everything!
Every day you have to go out of your mind in order to come to your senses. Furthermore, a fool, who persists in his folly, becomes either wise or other wise.
It has never been about resources, but more about resourcefulness. We're never too poor to buy our freedom. In fact, we are all "time millionaires" and when we who choose to "spend" this commodity, the less we put a cash value on travel, and the less we think that money is what we need to have an adventure and live, and the less we associate money with life in general.
Whoever put that thought virus or meme in my head—the idea that my personal freedom was for sale, something I had to purchase, and that travelling took a lot of money was wrong. There is nothing more satisfying than saying—I TOLD YOU SO.
This Is Now (St Maarten)
I'm living my dream of PT-Permanent Travel, also known as "Mini Retirements". I haven't been everywhere, but it is on my list. As I document this adventure, this round-the-world travelogue, I say to myself "Roam Sweet Roam" and Jai Ho!
Home is Not Where My Heart Is, But Where My Computer Is
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I remain a digital nomad, where Anywhere becomes @nyware, location neutral, as there is no such thing as a bad piece of real estate when you use technology and social media. Sailing in The Caribbean Ocean—I am in the middle of nowhere, but the center of everything, thanks to a reliable high speed Internet connection.
I am doing pretty much everything I would do in the USA, only with the economies of scale, at a less greater cost. Consequently, I call home a feeling not a place—I've never confused a street address for where I actually lived.
My destinations have never been places, but new ways of seeing things: the journeys themselves have been the destinations. When you're sailing through life, every horizon brings a new perspective, every port a new lesson, every sunset a reminder that home isn't a place—it's wherever your dreams anchor.
Failure IS the option, a necessary ingredient for success. The culture of perfectionism, however, won't make room for the uncomfortable subject. The failure factory begins in that ponzi scheme called higher education aka, College Tuition—a means to prey on the poor, instead of pulling people up by their boot straps.
Divine Compensation
Doing what we love is our sanity. It fills us with a powerful charisma, enabling us to produce new ideas and new projects. My cruising obsession is like a private religion. It's where the bulk of my spirit is actually invested, for better or worse, and sometimes there are diminishing returns.
6 times around the world builds confidence—it is the in to my sane, an organic field of energy that emerges from the deepest aspects of who I am. It is the fulfillment of what God has created me to be and do, to make a dent in the user-friendly universe.
"Everything you can imagine is real"
Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you want! Brick walls are there for a reason - they let us prove how badly we want things! It is awesome to dwell in the miraculous universe—A miracle is a shift in thinking. For me, it has never been about hoping or dreaming or winning the lottery, it's been about faith—I'm full of it.
The Journey Continues
Every sunrise on the ocean brings new possibilities. Every port tells a new story. The adventure never ends when you're living as a time millionaire.