Can you believe 2017 is right around the corner?!
Here are some quick goal setting tips for finishing 2016 strong and preparing for an incredible 2017. At the end of the post I reflect on how my 2016 goals have gone so far!
This was a huge move for me. It wasn't just quitting my corporate job and moving to California. It was the courage to say YES to a goal I had been working toward for years.
Saying YES to something new.
YES to the unknown.
YES to ditching the standard path in favor of going with my gut feeling.
I wanted to share a few takeaways I've come up with now that the dust has settled from the transition.
If you have a big change coming up, here are some things you may consider:
This list is separated into four sections:
A few years ago, I didn't know what a work + travel lifestyle was. I didn't know that there were really cool opportunities all over the world that allowed to you work in exchange for travel, work while you travel, or even move abroad.
I had never considered it.
Why? I thought you had to work-work-work-save and then travel and then go back and do the cycle all over again. Rinse and repeat.
Never did I ever think I would land multiple international travel jobs in Europe and Asia that would allow me to see the world in an entirely new way, make new friends, meet people from all over the world, and have the time of my life.
Here's a timeline of exactly how I went from dreaming of traveling to traveling for my job over the past couple of years:
If one of your 2016 goals is to stress less and travel more, then you're in the right place. You don't need to postpone happiness this year. If you want to travel, you can build a lifestyle that allows you to do so.
And tomorrow, we're going to show you how - LIVE!
This Saturday, I'm doing a free live workshop with Jenn Baxter of Live a F.a.s.t. Life called: Make this your best year yet: Travel more, Stress less, and Create a "Cleaned Up" life that you love
While I've traveled for fun, worked a travel job, or traveled outside of my full-time desk job, I make sure to put aside time to see more of this world, because seeing more of this world is something I love to do.
I took the advice from countless others of older generations that tell us to travel while we're young.
Not everyone feels this way.