Travel lessons from Brad.

Someone recently said the following which I’ve been mulling over for the past few days: “In big cities like NYC or London you can’t ever live your best life. Fancy dinners? Too expensive! Rent, crazy expensive! Fun date night at a play or opera? Too expensive! You have to have a ton of money to...

As things we so often looked forward to come to an end, it’s natural we feel sadness rather than appreciation that this experience has been lived and passed us by. But the experiences make up our life. Maybe the problem is simply how we frame these experiences in our minds. We live with a constant […]

This was today’s daily mindfulness lesson in Headspace and I thought it was worth sharing as it’s something I’m contemplating today. My mindset so far has been one of ‘addition by subtraction’. Where I feel it’s necessary to eliminate bad habits and replace them with more...

Ironically, after titling my last post, ‘I Feel Really Good Today‘ where I talked about being in a euphoric state as my personal goals for mind, body, and business were all moving forward together, my computer’s HDD crashed. Everything from 100 days of traveling. Gone. Everything not backed up in...

I’m currently having a euphoric feeling of what I can only describe as ‘perfect life’. I’m happily sitting at an outside garden patio table at a co-working space in Costa Rica. Mentally I have clarity on where I want to take my career in the future. I worked out this morning so my body has...

I’m infuriated thinking back to all the time I’ve spent aimlessly scrolling on Facebook’s news feed, or any social media feed for that matter. These are completely impulsive time wasting activities that give us instant gratification and nothing more. In fact one could argue in our ego driven...

Daily Decisions – The Sum of All its Parts Each day consists of many binary decisions where we have a choice to be productive or feed instant gratifications. Consciously or not we consistently make these decisions each and every day. And the summation of these decisions builds up to how we spend our day. I...

“How you spend your days is how you spend your life” – Annie Dillard. One of my favorite quotes rings true when contemplating how my personal progression has gone on the goals I set out to accomplish on this growth trip. Thinking back and how I’ve spent my time, let’s take a look at...

I previously alluded to the difficulties of maintaining productivity while traveling, and namely, the importance of focusing on your goals and reasons for traveling in a previous post. I want to explain deeper the importance of maintaining daily rituals and routines while traveling. Something that has become...