@J.D. Bentley, Have you read the book ‘f**k it’, it’s all about doing that to a bunch of things in your life.

@Rob, That’s what I want to avoid as well. Although I will have a blog showing how I execute my lifestyle design, I don’t want it to be my primary income source. It’s like those people that make money from internet marketing by telling other people how to do internet marketing.

I’m positioning myself in all the major areas…and recording it too on a project blog site. The most difficult divide I’m starting to see are those lifestyle designers that create income by developing products on how they broke free, which essentially is to them “creating products on how they broke free” unless I’m mistaking their products. I get caught in that circular thought and I’m still looking to chat with those putting the products out to get clear on it. The other group are those developing niche products/companies/ideas/reselling, on a topic thats not self perpetuating. If people put out products on how to be a lifestyle designer, to me they are slowly killing their own freedom. If people put out products on how to garden on the moon. They buy it, use it, love it, and tell their friends about it. Anyway, I’d love to chat and see what you think…someone who is still new but a few steps more along than I. Thanks!

@Rasheed I can’t wait to write about that day! Hopefully I will have built up enough support on here to keep me from having a total breakdown haha. But I really do appreciate the constant support, its people that keep the motivation going!

@Ross It may not be ideal, but in my world that would be a big step. Just to be able to get out of the office for more time each week would be a step in the right direction. But you are right, its all about small steps, and as long as you keep setting smaller goals on your journey you will get there! Thanks for stopping by!

@Liz I totally know how you feel about the anticipation. Its almost like looking forward to a big upcoming vacation, except you know there is even more work where you are going! I am considering creating a program/ebook about how to help you build a location independent business plan, that would include budgeting tools and ideas for how to cope with your new life and ideas for income. So far I can only write about half of it since I have yet to go location independent, but if you would have an interest definitely let me know…I am in the beginning stages of seeing if there is a market. Congrats on your plans, and keep us posted about what happens!

If only the financial planning wasn’t so daunting…

I agree totally with you, Plan, budget, and have intermediary goals to keep you on track.

Can’t wait for the day when I will get to read that you have made the leap to freedom.

Rasheed

This pretty much sums up the way I feel about having a “real” job. I have had a total of two “real” jobs in my entire life, both in 2007. I worked as a janitor at a hospital and a barista at Starbucks… At the same time. From 6:30am to 3:00pm I’d be at the hospital and from 3:30pm to 10:00pm I’d be at Starbucks. Not to mention the hospital schedule changed daily, making things even harder to plan. It sucked.

I might have put up with it, too, had it not been for the constant visits by the Starbucks manager who always wore a suit, always sounded happy and seeing the hospital CEO in the halls, knowing he made over half a million each year.

They walked around freely and thought everything within their respective businesses were great because they didn’t have to deal with disgruntled coffee nerds or bloody needles and bags of placenta. I was one of many getting the brunt of the work while they got the profit.

I quit my job without any planning whatsoever. I had a huge “fuck it” epiphany and just dropped out of life. I don’t regret it at all, but I’m sure financial planning would have helped. I’m still bad about budgets and cash flow.

Congratulations on paying off the credit card debt and thanks for the shout out!