Download Your Dream Life: Tools & Ideas To Help You Design An Awesome Lifestyle
Posted by Dan on June 06, 2009 in The Voyage
The are countless people on the Internet who have created tools and other resources to help you set goals, put a plan in action and create a life that you thought would always be out of reach. I’ve compiled some of the most useful resources I’ve found so far.
Dreamline Worksheet by technoTHEORY
Find out how much money you need to make to live your dream lifestyle. It’s probably not as much as you think and you can always find more ways to make it even cheaper.
Chris has released a number of eBooks that will help you, escape the 9 to 5 and travel more and cheaper. I’ve read both of his free Ebooks and purchased the Unconventional Guide to Working for Yourself. Chris gives a lot of clever advice that goes against the grain of what most Internet marketers will tell you. I highly recommend you download and read 279 Days to Overnight Success.
Location Independent Business Course
Lea Woodward has put together an awesome resource to help you create a business that will give you the opportunity to work from anywhere and have the time to enjoy it. While I haven’t yet purchased the course my friend Daniel McClure has. I’m sure it’s even better than their Ebook X Marks the Spot and I was pretty happy with that.
Drexel Learning Center’s Goal Setting & Planning Worksheet
I sometimes like to write out my goals and the plan the achieve them, I like this way of doing it while following the SMART method for setting goals. Written goals with steps set out in sentences and not just dot points really help me know where I’m going and what I need to be doing.
Debt Advice Guru Real Hourly Wage Calculator
This will put you real hourly rate into perspective once you’ve taken out the work related expenses you might not have considered, you might find you have an expensive job, there’s a concept you might not have considered before.
Freelance Switch Rate Calculator
So you know how much work you want to do to pay for your dream lifestyle but how much do you need to charge to cover all your expenses? This is a comprehensive tool that will tell you what your hourly rate needs to be, if your not going to work based on time it will let you know what you effective hourly rate will need to be.
Nomadic Matt’s Guide to Making Money With a Travel Blog
Matt is one of the more successful travel blogger out there, he runs a number of sites and makes over $3000 a month. That’s enough to live and travel in just about any developing country. His ebook is strongest in telling you how to approach SEO for your site and getting advertisers, he’ll even put you in contact with advertisers who will want to buy ads on your blog.
My Newsletter
There are always new doorways opening to create your life on your terms. I’d like to keep you up to date on how I’m doing on finding them. This won’t be your typical newsletter, what you will find inside will be something akin to an email from a friend rather than a sales pitch and I hope that if you sign up for it you will respond with your own thoughts and ideas. Maybe we can even work together on putting them into action. You can sign up in the sidebar on the right.
I’ll keep this page up to date with useful tools, if you follow me on Twitter or sign up for the newsletter you’ll know exactly when something has changed.
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Great post Dan – some of these I’m familiar with and some are new to me. I’m also new to the whole lifestyle design idea, though I know I’ll be learning more about it in the coming months, especially when faced with a return home and the need to pay off travel debts with a “real” job.
A very nice list of resources. I can honestly say that no other sources come to mind and I actually didn’t know all these. The lifestyle design niche seems to grow bigger every day though and I’m sure there will be some new resources just around the corner.
Thanks for these!
@Dave I guess we might be able to say that we are lucky that our debt was accrued through travel and not by some less exciting method.
@ChristiaanH Many of the people in LD are highly motivated and great thinkers so I’m sure there will be heaps of projects in the works right now.
Thanks a lot Dan. There’s some great resources here – I just downloaded the 279 days report and will be checking it out this week.
Nice articles you have here, Dan. Will be looking forward to more. Am sure you can write a lot about the Philippines. Our beaches are (ahem) better than Bali
Converting a dream into a reality can be tough! great to see some real tangible things here that will help make that happen. Can be scary realizing your dreams, now is the time to test how much you really want your dream!
Hey! Am enjoying your site – I stumbled on it while doing research for how to continue my current lifestyle which I love – I am living in a small town in eastern China and teaching high school kids how to speak better English. The job is fun, my time is almost all my own, and it pays for me to travel and see an amazing country and culture.
I was assessing what it took for me to finally get here (two years of planning) and I wonder if you agree that by far the biggest obstacle to living a Nomad Lifestyle full of adventure and travel and challenge is: the majority of people simply are not able to get out of financial debt! It’s that simple, but also that difficult.
There are not enough resources related to this Nomad Lifestyle that address how to help us accept that most of us are brainwashed into a consumer lifestyle, realize there are other options for a passion-filled life, and how to manage and redirect your spending so you too can enjoy what anybody can achieve and a few of us are now enjoying.
Just some thoughts, check out my travel blog if you are curious about living and working in China – I just got back from eight days in Tibet!
http://www.mytb.org/GypsyKing
Cheers!
Sean Ward
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