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Imagine Yourself with a Different Life

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Recently I wrote about chipping away at your stuff to free yourself for your untethered expat life. This presumes you're like most other readers of this website, and you're choosing your own expat destination, not being sent on an overseas assignment by a company. Just as you need to inventory and make decisions about material possessions, you need to decide what’s important to you after you move. This is a place where you can dream a bit, and envision the way you’d really like your life to …

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To Untether, First Take Inventory

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The story goes that Michelangelo created his beautiful statues by visualizing what was trapped inside the marble and chipping away everything that wasn’t the statue. Before you can untether yourself as an expat you have to undergo a similar transformation. You need to chip away everything that won’t work with your new life so you can free yourself to enjoy it. There are two broad categories you need to chip away at: your stuff and your ideas. Chip Away the Stuff One way to start is by taking …

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The Untethered Life

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Untether Yourself is the title of the free e-book I recently released. (If you missed its release, you can grab your copy here.) But what does the untethered expat life mean? Is it: the freedom to travel constantly, flitting from place to place and exploring all the world has to offer? the opportunity to live on a tropical beach soaking up the sun? the ability to live where you want but travel back to your native land whenever you want to visit friends and family? simply a move from one …

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Should You Start a Blog? Blogging for Fun and Profit

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A blog can be a big part of your Anywhereist business strategy. Here's some basic information to get you started. What is a Blog? The word "blog" is short for "web log." An entire website can be a blog, or the blog can be just part of the site. They can be very simple, or very complex. Generally a blog presents information in chronological order, with the most recent entry first. Most blogs allow some kind of interactivity. Typically, readers can leave comments. Some blogs include …

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Free Tools for Virtual Productivity

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Last week I mentioned that my youngest daughter would be heading off to college soon, leaving us with an empty nest. She and I have embarked on a journey from our home in the Orlando, FL area to her college in the Northeast. Along the way, we're stopping to do research for some articles I'm writing. This is a good way for me to try the virtual-making-money life I've talked about before on this website. My son calls it "working in the cloud," but either way, there are lots of tools available to …

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Support Yourself Anywhere With a Website or Blog

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In recent months, we’ve explored writing, photography, art, running a B&B, teaching English as a foreign language and other options for supporting yourself anywhere in the world. Some – running a B&B and teaching – require you to be in a specific place. Others – writing and photography – allow you to move around and get paid almost anywhere. Another location-independent avenue for creating income is by establishing an online business represented by a website or blog. The good news is, …

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