Almost 4 hours to boarding.. May just as well get some work done.

Feels a bit strange. After several weeks of planing and structuring I can finally concentrate and get to work on that ever growing todo list.

You’d think that being on the road makes it difficult to focus or to have the time. On the contrary I find that there are a lot of time to kill. With all of the daily distractions present when you’re in your ordinary home, suddenly gone,  gettin some work done enters pretty much nr 1 on the fun-list.

Weather you’re on a bus, trains or airplane, you can always think of some point on the todo list to check off.

 

Living the digital nomad life, unless you already make a lot of money from what you do, you obviously don’t want to pay more than necessary whilst traveling. Being flexible in your schedule offers many opportunities to save bucks. 

The ride from my home town of Jönköping in Sweden is about 350 kilometers from the airport. I decided to go with the cheaper option. That included two trains and one local city buss. 

The whole trip is costing me 25 + 190 + 50 = 265 Swedish kronor (about 27 €). This compares to around 50 € for any more conventional transfer. And it’s fun too.. You get to see and experience stuff and can work and blog along the way =) 
See you in the next one… 

This mighty bottle of water that I needed to buy on the train not to dehydrate to much.. was 2,5 € Wow.. guess there’s a fine profit for selling water for 5 € per litre. It’s one fine bottle though. I must admit.

After one crazy week end of packing, moving, planning, chatting, and on top of everything also having a couple of business meetings I have finally handed over my apartment to the nice person who sub-lease over the next 6 months. And I am on my way..

First stop Egypt.. My sister is there with her family so I want to visit them. I miss them so much and I’m looking forward to to seeing them all. Also it is my first time in Egypt and that in itself is quite exciting!

Many questions in my mind. One is actually how will it feel to be back in a pretty hot climate. Last time was Thailand 5 months ago. Weird as it may seem I must say, I am pretty well adjusted to the cold climate in Sweden. Once interesting thing I have noticed is how much clearer you think and more productive you get when it is not 38 degrees Celsius outside every day.. It’s kind of easier to keep the warmth in a cold climate than to comfortably cool when it’s really hot. At least that’s my experience. Don’t get me wrong, I have nothing against sunny days and balmy whispering nights.. especially if you have some free time away from the computer screen to enjoy it.. 😉

Well that’s it for now. I’ve managed to get on board the first train of two this evening. The plane is leaving early morning. Feels good to be starting off have a good time buffer.

When you think you’re almost done.. That’s when you full your car to the brim once again for transportation to temporary storage.. Now however there are very little left to take care of in the apartment before it’s ready to be sublet to someone else. Great! 

Here are some pictures from earlier today.. (technically yesterday) 

The cleansing continues.. I must say that I am finally starting feel that I have some kind of control over the situation. I have actually tried to do this many times before.. Only to find myself buried in memories and emotional attachment to the stuff I’m going through.

This time however, I was more determined. I had a more concrete reason to finish my task. It simply had to be done. Even though I have some place to store my boxes whilst traveling I do not want to overuse this possibility. Especially not since I have a ever growing dream not to own more things than I can get my head around.

Because of my interest for music and musical instruments, I do have a little bit more of a need for storage space. Many things I could sell and then buy back later when I settled down. But music is one of the things that I know I want to spend time with, so at least for now I think that it is the most wise decision to keep this equipment.

 

Where does all the stuff come from… Did I really buy all these things? It’s crazy..

Now that I am thinking of becoming a digital nomad I have realized that it’s truly time for me to get rid of all the excess stuff..

Today I managed to throw away quite a heap.. Gotta love the feeling of empty space.

At around 7 years of age I remember getting an assignment from my teacher in school to write down in my scrap book, what I wanted to do as an adult. I remember my was something like “not working/getting a jobb”… Needless to say I didn’t have a too romantic picture of what working was all about for most adult people.

What I was was afraid of at that young age was of course not working, but rather being forced to do something every day that I wasn’t passionate about.

A little later in life I remember dreaming together with my brother of living on a beach somewhere and being able to do work from there. I had this feeling that it must be possible… there must be a way.

After my university studies I symptomatically ended up in exactly the situation that I so much had feared. And after 4 years in an IT customer care center I was truly depressed pretty much just working eating and sleeping my way through life, and not having any time or energy left for almost any kind of creative or social activities.

On my 30th birthday I got a copy of Anthony Robbins Personal Power II audio course from my brother. Tonys words hit me right in my heart. Someone telling me that I could do, be or have anything, if only I was determined enough and would not give up… that was exactly what I needed.

Just a year or two later I took the first major step towards a more free an creative life. I quit my jobb and other “not-so-inspiring” activities, and I started my own business.

Now about ten after my first encounter with Anthony Robbins Personal Power, I feel I am ready for the next step. Up till now I have had quite a lot of freedom, but I have still felt that I could be even more free, and do even more inspiring and fulfilling things.

I recently started to follow people on Youtube and other social media that call themselves “digital nomads”. And I have come to realize that there is a whole community of people out there, living the life that I have dreamed of ever since I was a kid. Traveling anywhere in the world, working with the things they love, in one way or the other over the internet.

The vast majority of the digital nomads that I follow though, are in their twenties… a reasonable age for traveling the world and not having settled down one might say. Me, on the other hand, just about to turn 40… Am I even sane to be considering this path.. well better late than never right? Gotta be an optimist.. And maybe I will get bored very soon of this kind of lifestyle (if I even make it to being a true digital nomad..), but at least then I can say that I tried,, ‘cos I guess this is a clear “rather regret the things you didn’t do”-case.. So let’s do it..