Living Differently

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This post, and entire “Living Differently” series, was written when I finally woke up to what we’d achieved, and realised that we were living life differently and loving it. It was the moment everything changed for us and our website’s following and monthly views started going through the roof. It was when I first came up with the concept of “Living Differently” and was meant to inspire and help others do likewise. Back then, I wrote the following blog post on how and why we were living life so much differently to the norm.

What follows is what I originally wrote, several years ago, over 10 years ago we changed our lives and our children’s lives for the better. We have no regrets, changing our lives, breaking away from the norm, was the best thing we ever did.

We ditched our jobs, schools, all restrictions to start a life of travel and freedom, becoming digital nomads and entrepreneurs. We hope you find our insights helpful in your own quest towards living life differently

Living Differently – Secrets

How many years have I been writing blog posts? Don’t know? Well I’ll tell you, it’s 4 .

The conversation between Chef and I, the one that changed our lives, took place 4 years ago in our garden in Australia and I’ve been blogging about it from every corner of the globe since.

Only I haven’t.

I’ve been talking about the travel not the lifestyle shift. I’ve had a realisation, a flash of light that shook up my thoughts and made everything crystal clear on a grey London day.

This shouldn’t so much be a travel blog. This must be a blog about living differently.

I’ve been doing it all wrong, writing factual destination based posts and handy tips and how-to-s of family travel. These posts are the bread and butter, they pay the bills (see how we make a viving blogging here) but for you, the readers, I don’t need to do that.

Anyone can do that, but not many can write about living a life so different to the norm that most would be scared to even try.

We’re not just dreaming or planning, we’ve done it. For the last 3 years. It’s in the bag and it’s been a glorious success.

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Here are the secrets of “Living Differently”

You do not have to grow up, get an education, get a job, climb the career ladder, get married, have kids, climb the property ladder, send the kids to school, retire and take cruises in that order. Nothing is forcing you to live life to any schedule. Nobody is forcing you to do any of those things at all. There is no reason not to live life differently.

You do not have to get a good job with good prospects, stability and promotional opportunities. You don’t ever have to work for somebody else if you don’t want to.

You do not have to seek acceptance from society.

You don’t need pieces of paper to be educated, you can teach yourself anything.

Kids are not required to go to school in most countries.

You don’t have to buy the latest gadgets or buy anything at all to prove you’re a success or not poor or to improve your image. You just don’t.

Living your life joyfully doesn’t have to be expensive. There are many ways to live within your means other than earning more and more money and sacrificing more and more of your precious time for that paycheck.

You only need to work for the things you really need, be they personal satisfaction in your working life, to give something back to global humanity, or bed and board.

Do you see? Do you see that you can be the creator of your own lifestyle and that there is NOTHING to stop you living differently, only yourself.

And you know why they’re secrets? It’s because the world, as it stands, would stop turning if consumerism was no longer a part of the typical human make up.  Schools teach us to be good consumers and follow the above lifestyle schedule, earning more, paying more taxes, buying more. They provide half an education because they don’t want people thinking too much.

But there is another way. We found that way by chance after 30+ years of living a “normal” life. Normal and of average ordinary happiness with a large measure of boredom and monotony on the side.

Changing our lives to live them differently was the best thing we ever did. I know we’ve had our ups and downs but these last 3 years have been mind-blowingly fantastic.

So thanks if you’ve been with us all along, a lot of you have become good friends, real and virtual and you mean a lot to us. If you’re new, sign up to follow. I’ve found my voice and I have a lot more to say!

If you’re here you will most certainly want to read this post on raising money, economising and making money to fund a lifestyle of “Living Differently”

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You Can Access Published “Living Differently” Posts Here

We have “Living Differently” as a category on this website, click through to see all of our content relating to alternative life choices.

Living Differently: Uncertainties, Stories and Bookings

Living Differently: Owning Less Living More

Living Differently: Make Your First $1000 from Amazon Affiliates

Living Differently: Owning Less Clothes and Dumpster Diving

Living Differently: Parenting

Living Differently : The 12 Month Countdown To A New Life of Travel

Living Differently: Homeschooling

Living Differently: We Bought a Farm! (This one opens in a new tab, on our new website, permaculture, homesteading, self sufficient lifestyle).

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