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Some good, some bad, but all essential to know before you make the big decision to move your life to Asia.
Things will be a little more complicated than you may originally realize. If you look you will find and read countless blogs and articles from fellow travel bloggers around the world stating how they escaped their 9 to 5 to live a life of freedom from their old work, have achieved location independence and are happier than they have ever been. A notably smaller number will explain that giving up that 9 to 5 will almost definitely set you up for much, much longer hours. Trying to make money via your own means is far from a stress free experience. So what is life like for us now, 1. Chiang Mai?
If you think your website or youtube channel is going to explode into this wondrous revenue stream without hard work. You might as well not bother. This 1. 8 month milestone has been a wake- up call to get serious about what we want from life and how valuable our skills are. Time moves so quickly. Those iced coffees, perfectly dusted lattes and hours spent on the internet telling your families how great life is will eat away at the time you have bought yourself by moving to Asia. So you need to ask yourself if you are being honest, with yourself and with the people you talk to. Are you really happy in Chiang Mai? Have you achieved what you set out to when your mind was brimming with dreams of what could be? If somebody asked me those questions my answer would be no. I’m not happy with everything, not all the time anyway, that’s impossible (and a little weird). What you see of our lives here in Thailand is a cinematic exaggeration of the small moments between work where we actually get to leave the house and explore. However, despite the much longer working hours, the work itself is what brings us inspiration and happiness. We still run a business, have clients, maintain image and video libraries and deal with hundreds of email exchanges. All of this takes a lot of time. Time. The 1. 8 months we have spent living and working here have disappeared into an unfathomable void. InterAksyon.com The online news portal of TV5. MANILA, Philippines -- Philippine National Police Director General Ronald dela Rosa said Friday the government will set. Free live internet television, tv channels, internet broadcast of TV 5 Monde - France. Watch Free Internet TV Stations from around the world on your computer. Over 1000 Free online TV channels. Large collection of live Web TV stations. When people ask what our plans are for next year, we have learnt to be honest and say that we don’t really know anymore. Our plans are changing every week, depending on opportunities that arise or places to explore before we inevitably leave Thailand for new adventures. Work wise, things have moved slower than we wanted them to. Everything that we do now is working and we have several new online income streams that we didn’t have before we left the UK. But financially, it’s not enough. What we have worked out, is that there is time for almost everything. But often you have to make that time. As a couple we are sometimes dangerously flawed by excuses. Recently we have started taking weekly trips to local cafes where we sit down and prioritize our individual tasks for the following week. It really works and has increased our productivity by a lot. The most important part of this was the realisation that we were making excuses. Hoping that the work we had already done would get found and go viral because we’d worked enough. It was laziness talking, and damaging to our self esteem in the long run. Coming to this new organisational revolution has reignited our passion to be successful, and we will be producing more awesome and visually stunning projects because of it.
It helps if you love what you do, in fact that is the most important career decision to make. Time is your most valuable asset, you get more of it when you lower your expenses and move to Asia. So make sure you use all of it. Getting a dream job in Chiang Mai. While that was an amazing development that we couldn’t have predicted, we also couldn’t have explained how after 3 months working with them we would decide to leave their employment and go it alone once again. The answer was simpler than we imagined when we took the opportunity. We came to Thailand to develop our own incomes, to create a location independent and somewhat passive revenue stream that could be maintained mostly online. Working for the tourism company was destroying that, and the time that we had made for ourselves by moving to Chiang Mai. We respectfully declined the offer of permanent employment and a decent regular salary in exchange for the dangerous ever evolving pit of self employment. Explaining this to our families was once again a difficult task. But over the years our loved ones have gotten to know the reasons for the strange decisions that we make. We continue to have their unwavering support, even if it seems a little difficult to comprehend at first.
Plus we have spent the time we gained expanding our personal video library further and pursuing trips of our own choosing. We have even won $3. In the future we would certainly still consider the prospect of freelancing for tourism companies. In fact that is a big part of our future plans and finding a way to bring our creativity to the table for the benefit of others and ourselves is a concept that excites us too. The cool things that happened since moving to Chiang Mai The Viral Video One night I was working late replying to emails. Suddenly our inbox began to get flooded with notifications from youtube saying that people were subscribing to our channel. After investigation I noticed that our facebook fans were also increasing at an exponential rate. It wasn’t long after that I discovered that our video Chiang Mai Local Gems had gone viral on the Thai Forums. Our audience grew by thousands in just a few days and whereas before we were only followed by fellow expats, now we had a huge Thai audience that loved our romantic cinematic style. Since then we have Thai people stop us in the street to take our picture so they can share on facebook that they met . It still happens now sometimes and we always find it a little strange. But it is an amazing experience that we could never have predicted would happen and was only possible because we explored our creativity and put our best out there onto the internet. The Live TV Interview Not long after our viral video we were invited to be
They wanted to know all about us and thank us for promoting Thailand in such a unique way. We were on Live TV for a full 1. The funny thing was they even let our puppy Eden join us on TV and she sat at the table like a princess with her paws on the table. My parents were so thrilled that they braved the 6 hour time difference and stayed up until 1am to watch the interview live on TV back in England. It was an unforgettable experience. Becoming Big Competition Winners Not only did we win $3. We were also chosen to sail around the Unseen Mergui Islands with
They said that despite the others claims, our talent shone through as the best by far from the entire pool of applicants. We received a $1. Prize fund and all our expenses paid trip around the Islands of the Andaman Sea on the amazing vessel META IV.
Past years of excess weight had stretched her skin in a way that couldn’t be rectified with exercise alone so she made a personal investment and
But you soon rediscover it when you leave.
Chiang Mai and the North have been good to us but even after all this time there is still so much we haven’t done. We plan to maximise that exploration and create more blog posts and videos about the places we discover, promoting hidden cafes and guesthouses to fellow explorers and expats wishing to follow in our footsteps. When that is covered, we are looking southward toward the areas we have yet to explore so as not to get stuck in a rut and become too comfortable. We feel that if we don’t move around a little more then it will stump our creativity and potential to really make the most of our time in Thailand. We will share more on this as the plan develops.
If we could go back to the start, before we left the UK. We would tell ourselves that it . Despite the hard times and moments with less than No money in our accounts. We arrived in Thailand with .
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