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A Blog About Living & Working From Anywhere You Choose As A Modern Global Nomad

An Interview With Fellow LIPs: Cyan & Collis Ta’eed of EnvatoNovember 5

I’ve been struggling to write posts recently for this blog so what better thing to do than interview other people who are living the location independent lifestyle too and share their insights with you here?

First up, it’s Cyan & Collis…

Many of you may have heard of Cyan and Collis Ta’eed - the “power couple of the creative industry” with projects like PSDTUTS, Freelance Switch, FlashDen and Blog Action Day, to their names.

What you may not know is that they, like us they run their business (Envato) whilst travelling the world working from wherever they happen to fancy next.

Jonathan and I had the pleasure of meeting up with them for lunch earlier this year in their first location independent destination (HK) just as they were recovering from dodgy tums, having tested their delicate Australian bellies with some nameless Chinese food!

Here’s what they say about their location independent lifestyle…

How did you prepare for your location in

6 Things You Must Do Before You Leave The Rat Race, Set Up Your Own Business And Become Location IndependentOctober 23

Photo by F1RSTBORN

“I just can’t do this any more, I’m resigning”.

As soon as I heard the words tumble out of my mouth, I felt relief. Then panic.

Talk about a one eighty…a management consultant re-training as a personal trainer. I’m sure most of my friends and family thought I’d gone loony mad and was in the middle of a break down. And yet it was the most sane, most sensible and truly best decision I have ever made in my life. Really.

If you’re thinking about doing the same and quitting the day job, please don’t do what I did - which was pretty much spur of the moment and not very well thought out at all. A classic case of Ready, Fire, Aim!

No, if you’re going to do the same here’s what I wish I’d have done before leaving the rat race, starting up on my own and finally, becoming location independent…

Plan Your Escape

Might seem obvious but not to me at the time! If you are going to make a major life change then plan, plan, plan. One thing to remember though, there is a time for planning and a time for action.

Once you’ve done the plann

News & Updates for October 2008October 22

There are a few minor (and one major) developments on the location independent front that we’d like to share with you today. First up are the minor tweaks we’ve made to the blog:

These are largely designed to make it far easier to navigate and find the content on here both for existing and new users. The tweaks include:

1. A much clearer RSS subscribe button (up there on the banner).
2. Related posts now appear at the bottom of every post (thanks to the Yet Another Related Posts plugin).
3. Improved page navigation at the bottom of the blog, allowing you to navigate more easily to all 59 pages of posts on the blog (thanks to the WP-PageNavi plugin).
4. “Favourite Posts”added to the sidebar - shout if there are others you think should be there.
5. A search box in the sidebar which I though was there previously but obviously not (sorry!).
6. The Bookstore pages have been tidied up and re-formatted - still a bit more to do on them but I think they’re an improvement on what was there previously.
7. A few more adverts plus the Location Independent Amazon store added to the sidebar - these are all for products and services we use and/or recommend and might (if we’re lucky) generate a bit more income from this blog.
8. Links to the new online communities we’ve just set up added to th

Dealing With Poverty As A Location Independent EntrepreneurOctober 14

Photo by Leni Rachael

This post is our contribution to Blog Action Day 2008 - Poverty.

Imagine this…you’re gallivanting around an idyllic tropical island thinking to yourself how lucky you are to be a nomadic, location independent professional when all of a sudden a scrawny, scruffy child - who seems no older than about 5 - pulls you out of your reverie and asks you for some food so they don’t starve to death.

That is reality. And it’s the reality you’ll face if you, like us, choose to live and work in countries around the world and you don’t plan to stay holed up in a plush hotel all day, every day.

How would you react if:

1. Someone comes to your open front door at night crying and asking for R5 (approx. £0.30) for a bus fare because they have no money and can’t get home.
2. You get stopped almost daily on the street and asked for money or food.
3. You have homeless people who sleep on the street outside your fully furnished, short term, comfortable apartment.
4. You find out that the average wage for a worker in the country yo

The Mindset Of The Nomadic, Location Independent EntrepreneurOctober 7

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Being a nomadic, location independent entrepreneur is not just about travelling around the globe permanently, earning an income via the internet and working from exotic places.

That’s part of it of course. But the biggest part of living a nomadic, work-from-anywhere kind of lifestyle is the mindset which underpins it.

If you follow any other people who live our kind of vagabond lifestyle, you’ve possibly noticed something similar in the things they write, the way they view the world and the ways in which they go about their lives.

It’s these beliefs, values and attitudes which form the “location independent” mindset. Do you have it?

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