RE: Location Independent Income: How to Run Your Own Life
You are right, ideas are great- but many things aren't rainbows. The bigger the dream, the harder to execute. What your story tells me is that no matter how much I prepare, walk into it knowing I could fail but I also could succeed.
I wrote a piece the other month telling about how a lot of people try to drop everything and move to Hawai'i but it doesn't work like that. Everyone here has known each other for most of our lives, so if you come from somewhere else- you can wind up homeless pretty easily.
I know that boat, I'm also in a single room with two other people Im not related to, but we are close friends. I have a beutiful 31 story view, free electric, and other perks, but it does come at a price/trade for other things.
It's good to go big, but not wise to give up everything in pursuit of it when there's a lack of contingency plans.
You are right that telecommuting and non localized work is the way to go. That's one of my goals when I graduate, to be able to work from anywhere. I'm two years in, but that was the plan from the start. These are the things a person should consider when thinking about moving abroad in the future.
I think anything is possible. I really do, but my mindset wasn't right to accomplish such an enormous task. I was under a lot of stress. It would have been better to take one bite at a time. Perhaps move down with an easy online job lined up and then try to start the business one piece at a time.
I feel you're not at fault as we are all our worst critic. Many people jump at their dreams face first, and although securing stable income beforehand would have eased the burden some, your dream still happened. A lot of people don't get that far.
It's true. I definitely have balls. I can always turn things around. Much happier doing that here than I would have been there.
Being able to adapt to change and ammend plans is a skill in itself, because you were able to move already, you can focus more effort on working towards a telecommute job. You got this!
Thanks for the encouragement. Confidence is everything!