Traveling Minimalist

19/04/2023

Hey all! I want to share something (free) that helped me out in simplifying my life down to the handful of things that really matter...

"A little guide to a happy life, written by you"

I wrote this book a year ago, and its free to download on Amazon Kindle for the next 5 days. (If it tries to charge you don't pay, just check back tomorrow as the free deal runs from the 19th to 23rd)

The idea is, once or twice a year taking a systematic look at your life, what you need, what youre missing, and realistic steps to make it a reality as well as some encouraging words to yourself - then put it away until next year. But, if you hit any rough patches during the year you can always pull out these notes that will remind you what to prioritize and some realistic steps to get back on track (written by you when you were in a better state).

Over the years these notes turn into an actual guide with encouragement and is almost like consulting a best friend that knows you really well and has your best interests at heart.

Ive been doing this for 10 years and its added a whole new level of intention and effectiveness in achieving lasting happiness. The approacg def doesnt work overnight, but it has amazing results in the long run.

The book isnt perfect, but its free, and a great start to a "life designing" approach. Feel free to share the link with others while its free. I hope it helps someone out!

Good luck!

A Little Guide to A Happy Life, Written by You: A Life Design and Life Mapping Exercise to Make Your Ideal Life a Reality

28/02/2023

The "Financial Independence and Retire Early" is by far the most valuable philosophy I've discovered. The straight forward ideas on saving and investing allowed me to reach financial independence and semi-retire (now traveling the world) at 36 years old. My only regret, is I wish I'd discovered the ideas sooner. In this article, I share everything I've learned about the FIRE movement and how to use it to empower your saving, investing, and early retirement so you too can travel the world, endlessly.

Financial independence is something many people dream of but few people realize is possible. However, the fast-spreading FIRE Movement is quickly sharing financial independence savvy …

14/04/2022

These days, having internet connectivity is essential to enjoyable, cheap travels and daily life. However, deciding which SIM card and service is best for your travels can be a pain. So, in this article, I found the 23 best international SIM cards to help you find the one that is best for you.

https://abrotherabroad.com/the-best-international-sim-card-and-data-plan-options-for-travelers-t-mobile-google-fi-and-local-sims/

Discover the 23 best international SIM cards for travel that you need to get data for your phone, laptop, and more, plus text, anywhere any time

03/03/2022

Who wants a free copy of this new book all about an exercise in finding what makes you happy and designing your life around it??

A Little Guide to A Happy Life, Written by You: A Life Design and Life Mapping Exercise to Make Your Ideal Life a Reality

08/02/2022

**Recommended Reading for A Balanced Life**

-->Purpose and Money
- The Richest Man in Babylon by George S. Classon
- What Color is Your Parachute: A Guide to a Lifetime of Meaningful Work and Career by Richard N Bolles
- Your Money or Your Life: 9 Steps to Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Achieving Financial Independence by Vicki Robbin
- An Introduction to the “Financial Independence and Retiring Early Movement” by Carlos Grider

-->Personal
- Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life by Jon Kabat-Zinn
- Top 5 Regrets of the Dying by Bronnie Ware
- The Art of Happiness: A Handbook for Living by Dalai Lama

-->People and Social
- Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging by Sebastian Junger

-->Possessions and Location
- Is Geoarbitrage for You? by Carlos Grider

This is the recommended reading list from a book I'll be publishing soon on analyzing your life and crafting a path to an ideal life for you called "A Little Guide to a Happy Life, Written by You."

The idea behind this book list is to deliver introductory level knowledge on the foundational areas of life, making us aware of what we might be lacking, and to better plan for growth in the future toward what an "ideal life" looks like for each of us.

The book guides the reader through an exercise I've done every 6 months for the past 15 years, that forces a look at what your ideal life would be and how to get there through the following 5 steps.

1. Eliciting conscious and unconscious needs, desires, and values)
2. Checking that you're investing in a balanced way across life - Personal, Emotional, Physical, Social & Relationship, Material Possessions, and Location
3. Comparing where your effort is going in life currently to where it would need to go to build your perfect life and not to unconsciously wasted areas
4. Making a list of actionable steps to slowly sculpt your current life into an ideal one
5. And then boiling it down to tasks/steps and advice that go into a permanent journal.

At the end of this process, I promise you'll have more clarity on your life than ever before.

If you want a free draft copy, drop a comment!!

23/12/2021

**Summary: I published a manual on kindle for making a full time income (semi-passive) from blogging, and I'm making it free to download Christmas day.**

Hey everyone. As most of you know, I've 100% given up on the corporate world and have been traveling and doing the expat life for the past 4 years and LOVE IT. I get asked a lot what I do for a living and how I pay for it and the answer is - Blogging. Yup. On my main site (A Brother Abroad) I make about double the average US income and I get to write about the things I enjoy most - travel, fitness, a healthy lifestyle, and self development development. And beyond that I have sites on personal finance, expat living, and food/cooking. It's great.

Last year when the pandemic hit, people were losing their jobs and looking for opportunities, I took on the project of writing a manual for how I, and a handful of other people I know, make a full time paycheck for part time work, writing articles and self publishing (aka blogging). I felt like this (building a blog for semi-passive income) could be the solution to a lot of hard times people were going through. I slacked on the project but - finally - closed out the first part of the project.

Yesterday I published the "beta version" of the kindle book - a manual for building a profitable blog.

The goal isn't to get rich, goal is to share knowledge of the opportunity and the lessons I wish I had from the beginning.

I'm making the kindle version free to download on December 25, Christmas day, so everyone can have access to this. And you'll automatically get the book update when I republish the refined version.

A 476 page manual for beginners baked directly from the notebook I've kept for the last 3 years, and covers SEO, how to build a website, how to draw readers, how to setup your website to pay a semi-passive income, all of the essentials you need to know about Google, and more.

If you are persistent enough to write for 1 year and 100 articles, you can 100% generate a location independent income of ~$3000 a month.

Feel free to share this with anyone you think could use the opportunity so they can download for free as well.

I'm also up to answer any questions on the topic..

Thanks a ton for all of the support of the last few years. I hope this repays a little bit of the support through the struggle.

Merry Christmas peeps!

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09P1JDCBG/

The Ultimate Beginner's Book on Blogging in 2022: A step by step guide for how to start a money making blog and work from anywhere | SEO | Writing | Monetization | Tools & Resources

28/11/2021

Did you know it is a common practice to move to a different country for a cheaper cost of living or just to be surrounded by the things you love in a more accessible way? Think of moving to Italy or Florence for a wine harvest season, or moving to Albania to make a year's salary last 5 years while living on the same riviera shared with Greece, or lowering your cost of living so you can owkr less and work on passion projects more.

That is geoarbitrage. That is how I live my life everyday, and I wish everyone else did too.

Click to discover more about geoarbitrage, then come back here and ask any questions you have - let's see if we can get you to the country you're supposed to be in.

https://abrotherabroad.com/geoarbitrage/

Does living a better life for a lower cost while saving money at the same job sound appealing to you? Are you looking for ways …

01/11/2021

Common misperception: You need to be rich to run away to paradise FOREVER. Not true. $1500 per month will get you a great life in ~50 great cities. (scroll down for the list and monthly budgets).

I set out to identify the 100 best to disappear to for a while based on quality of life, cost of living, travel opportunities nearby, ease of visa, and how good the infrastructure is for nomads (connectivity, coworking, cafes, friendliness to remote workers). Would love to hear everyone's thoughts about cities on this list, which they loved which they hated, and which have them going "hmmm..."

Stats for the 101 Best Cities for Digital Nomads, Remote Workers, and Slow Travelers:

- Average Cost of Living: $1,695 per month
- You could live comfortably on $3,000 in 89% of the cities
- You could live comfortably on $2,000 in 72% of the cities
- You could live comfortably on $1,500 per month in more than %50 of the cities

1. Ubud, Indonesia - $1729
2. Canggu, Indonesia - $1103
3. Uluwatu / Padang Padang, Indonesia - $770
4. Kuching, Malaysia - $925
5. Penang, Malaysia - $1085
6. Taipei, Taiwan - $2024
7. Kathmandu, Nepal - $609
8. Pokhara, Nepal - $642
9. Arugam Bay, Sri Lanka - $620
10. Phnom Penh, Cambodia - $1024
11. Vientiane, Laos - $964
12. Krabi, Thailand - $1129
13. Chiang Mai, Thailand - $989
14. Koh Lanta, Thailand - $1500
15. Bangkok, Thailand - $1350
16. Ko Pha Ngan, Thailand - $1024
17. Da Lat, Vietnam - $978
18. Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam - $961
19. Danang, Vietnam - $1026
20. Hanoi, Vietnam - $960
21. Hoi An, Vietnam - $1037
22. Vang Vieng, Laos - $981
23. Goa, India - $1369
24. Male, Maldives - $1256
25. Prague, Czech Republic - $2215
26. Tallin, Estonia - $2119
27. Toulouse, France - $2348
28. Lyon, France - $3079
29. Marseille, France - $3229
30. Strasbourg, France - $3426
31. Nantes, France - $4437
32. Montpellier, France - $2429
33. Athens, Greece - $2888
34. Thesaloniki, Greece - $2429
35. Palermo, Italy - $2469
36. Krakow, Poland - $1574
37. Gdansk Poland - $1635
38. Warsaw, Poland - $1874
39. Ponta Delgada, Azores, Portugal - $2781
40. Lisbon, Portugal - $2033
41. Porto, Portugal - $1969
42. Ljublana, Slovenia - $2203
43. Barcelona, Spain - $3017
44. Madrid, Spain - $2845
45. Valencia, Spain - $2535
46. Tenerife, Spain - $2135
47. Budapest, Hungary - $1542
48. Sofia, Bulgaria - $1401
49. Bansko, Bulgaria - $1428
50. Tblisi, Georgia - $1238
51. Kotor, Montenegro - $2079
52. Sochi, Russia - $1374
53. St. Petersburg, Russia - $1628
54. Belgrade, Serbia - $1537
55. Kiev, Ukraine - $1619
56. Brasov, Romania - $1316
57. Bucharest, Romania - $1674
58. Buenos Aires, Argentina - $733
59. Ushuaia, Argentina - $1664
60. Florianopolis, Brazil - $1215
61. Sao Paulo, Brazil - $1234
62. Port Alegre, Brazil - $867
63. Medellin, Colombia - $1052
64. Bogota, Colombia - $1054
65. Santiago, Chile - $1358
66. Valparaiso, Chile - $1558
67. Galapagos Islands, Ecuador - $1363
68. Quito, Ecuador - $989
69. Lima, Peru - $942
70. Cusco, Peru - $1144
71. Montevideo, Uruguay - $1549
72. Antigua, Guatemala - $1297
73. Puerto Viejo, Costa Rica - $2380
74. Mexico City, Mexico - $1489
75. San Miguel De Allende, Mexico - $1368
76. Puerto Escondido, Mexico - $1750
77. Playa Del Carmen, Mexico - $1370
78. Tulum, Mexico - $2167
79. Austin, Texas - $4402
80. San Diego, Ca - $4313
81. Las Vegas, Nv - $3789
82. Asheville, North Carolina - $3414
83. Cairo, Egypt - $853
84. Dahab, Egypt - $1019
85. Nairobi, Kenya - $1228
86. Marakesh, Morocco - $1906
87. Taghazout, Morocco - $1169
88. Cape Town, South Africa - $1738
89. Johannesburg, South Africa - $1961
90. Tunis, Tunisia - $1112
91. Beirut, Lebanon - $1835
92. Izmir, Turkey - $685
93. Istanbul, Turkey - $1067

Info about every city, the "why," highlights, estimated monthly living expenses, and visa are available here: https://abrotherabroad.com/best-cities-for-digital-nomads/

Discover the 101 best cities for digital nomads and remote working that have everything you need. Digital nomad communities, easy long term visas, low cost of living, beach, mountains, and easy lifestyles

28/10/2021

Just republished a new version of 75 Strong with a little more focus, and a lot more research - every one of the 10 daily tasks backed with cited research and the why/how of making it a habit.

As a thank you for the support, ideas, and feedback, I'm setting the book to 100% free on Kindle for October 29 - but just that one day, so get it while it's free.

Have anyone else download that you want on your team for the challenge as well. I highly recommend giving it a look, and working the challenge (even a mini version) into your New Year's improvement plan.

Its available on Amazon via this link --> ABrotherAbroad.com/75-Strong-Book

After you read it, print out a free 75 day checklist available here -- ABrotherAbroad.com/75-Strong

Thanks a ton for the support! Good luck with the challenge!

Discover the 75 Strong Challenge to build a stronger, tougher, better you in 75 days by programming positive habits for physical, mental, and emotional strength