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This Digital Nomad Couple Sold Everything to Travel the World in a Sailboat—Here’s What They’ve Learned About Life, Goal Setting and Relationships

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After several months of research, they attended a two-week sailing course in Gibraltar before selling Darsy’s apartment and buying Polar Seal in March 2016. “On Ellison and Darsy purchased Polar Seal in March 2016, but they didn’t hit the waters full time until June 2018. These are five of those lessons. Your speed is the right speed.

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Want to Make Money Doing What You Love? Ask Yourself These 4 Questions

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The first is an internal question. I moved on to other things, but years later when I started my lifestyle business, I mentally reconnected to my basketball coaching years and looked for work opportunities that would make me feel the same way. This article was published in July 2016 and has been updated. What are your thats?

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Travel Blogger Helene Sula Says Anyone Can Live an Extraordinary Life

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The blog’s freedom allowed the couple to embrace a digital nomad life , which has included relocating from Helene’s native Dallas to Heidelberg, Germany in 2016. HGTV’s House Hunters International chronicled their home search.) The duo moved back to the U.S. in 2019 to travel the country in an RV.

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If It Doesn’t Suck, It’s Not Worth Doing

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But as Robert Greene explains in his book Mastery , you can learn to love this internal resistance. So, you want to develop what Greene calls a “perverse pleasure” in experiencing internal conflict, and sit with it. This article was published in November 2016 and has been updated. Apply this principle to anything and everything.

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10 Things the Gym Taught Me About Life

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If I fold into the desire to be relieved of momentary discomfort, then folding becomes my point of internal reference. This article was published in July 2016 and has been updated. To endure beyond this discomfort, one must conjure something within—you have to “dig.” Sometimes there is a pause, but always the answer is “yes.”

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How to Build a Library Worth Having

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We need to know about American history, international history, family history and political history. This article was published in December 2016 and has been updated. When you build your library, be sure to keep it well balanced. Let me give you some examples. Begin with a few books. Adapted from Leading an Inspired Life.

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How Two Decades of Film Remakes Have Impacted Creativity in Cinema

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As average budgets for films have exploded and Hollywood has become increasingly reliant on the international market and—especially post-pandemic—streaming subscribers, studios have attempted to lower their risks as much as possible. The easiest way to do that? Go with a known quantity.

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