This was a question I had to face when planning my big trip. Since I have never traveled alone before it has always been something of a curiosity for me. Certainly I could see the freedom and challenges of traveling solo and the potential of loneliness but trying to plan a 6 month trip with someone else with the same schedule, interests and personality as me would have been a daunting task in itself so I decided to go it alone. I’ve always saw myself going on one big trip before settling down. To make myself feel better about my decision here are some good and not so good reasons I’ve come up with about going it solo.
1. You Won’t Have To Ditch Your Annoying Travel Mate Mid Way
You might be the best of friends in the real world but when your traveling together and in each others company 24/7 then the dynamics of the relationship changes. Whether your traveling with family, friends or partner its the same story. Some get along like peaches while others fight like cats and dogs. Maybe you start to find some annoying habits rear it’s ugly head or they are limiting your care free spirit of adventure.
The only problem is, unless you are already living with your potential travel buddy or you have already gone on holidays with them then its very difficult to predict whether you are a good match for an extended holiday together. However, by that stage it’s already to late, you’ve already locked yourself in for a miserable long trip together and maybe you can go your separate ways here and there but by and large you’ve committed yourself and theres no exit door anywhere in sight. Continue reading! »
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Friday’s weekly guide to Life Balance from 4EvaYoung.com
My computer is finally free from the shackles of Microsoft, well almost. But before you think that this is some personal vendetta or crusade against Microsoft, it isn’t. In fact it’s far from it. I hold great respect for Bill Gates, especially what he is doing in his post Microsoft era and I think as a corporation they have certainly done their bit to advance technology worldwide.
But deep down especially since my youthful naive days of working with Unix systems back in University, I’ve always wondered what life would be like to not have to own or buy another piece of Microsoft product again. I mean anyone who has ever worked with Unix or Linux will know what I’m talking about. But since everytime you buy a new computer it already comes pre-installed with a Microsoft OS and related software I’ve kind of left it at that and never really thought much else about it. Why fix something that’s not broke and Microsoft has pretty much established itself as an industry standard so why be different.
This was all fine until recently when my anti-virus software did something crazy and in a blink of an eye I lost Microsoft Office. It just went kaput. To cut a long story short Microsoft Office ceased to exist on my laptop and a reinstall failed to rectify the situation. Instead off running to the store and buying the current version of Microsoft Office I decided it was high time that I looked at alternative options. It’s been something that’s been in the back of my mind and this was a good a time as any. Here is how I went from replacing Microsoft Office to practically eliminating Microsoft from my life. Continue reading! »
Thursday’s weekly guide to Personal Growth from 4EvaYoung.com
Success can sometimes be an elusive and nonsensical word with different meanings for different people. The meanings may change over time or remain constant depending on where you are in life. Some might consider success from a materialistic or financial standpoint, others it might be more a measure of how much at peace and fulfilled they are with their life. Whatever your definition of success, it stands to reason that you would want to achieve the very best you can. To help you raise the odds for your success here are 5 simple strategies that can be easily integrated into your approach.
1. Success Begins When You Step Outside Your Comfort Zone
“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.” - TS Eliot
Success is synonymous to growth in ones life. As Jim Rohn says in his motivational speeches, “The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.” Too often we are crippled by inaction and fear because we are too afraid to step beyond our current limits to experience what we could be instead of what we currently are. Once the seed is planted, fear is insidious and infects all areas of our lives. The effect can be destabilizing to our growth and often the imagined fears are so far removed from reality that if we ever step beyond those fears and look back they seem somewhat silly to begin with. Continue reading! »
Wednesday’s weekly guide to Best Of The Web from 4EvaYoung.com
If you are like most people then you’ve probably had a bad day at the office. For whatever reason the day just went badly. Maybe you’ve flown of the handle, said some things you regretted or did some things your embarrassed about. Well then you can spare a thought for these guys in this hilarious video of people losing it in the office. Makes your moments seem quite sane in comparison and not so surprisingly technology was the blame for many of the meltdowns. Enjoy!
Since I’m in my late twenties I’ve hardly scratched the surface of smart and dumb financial decisions. My only hope is that as age creeps on my smarter financial decisions out weigh the dumb ones. But alas with youthful enthusiasm I’ve taken a few pot shots at trying to run my life into the financial ditch and I’ve managed to collect myself together to string along some good financial decisions in my later life. Since I’m the ever optimist and like to see the glass as half full, I’ll start my list with the Smart Financial decisions I’ve made so far, it might make me look temporarily smarter until you make it to the second half of the post. Hopefully, you have the time to learn from my mistakes and make wiser choices.
The Smartest Financial Decisions I’ve Made With Money
1. Buying A Used Car Instead Of New
While it’s tempting to buy a brand spanking new car, I at least had a limited enough foresight to buy used when I turned 18. That was the year I bought my first car, paid with cash saved up and with some help thanks to my parents. It was a near new 3 door Daihatsu Charade. Now when I say near new, I literally mean it still had the factory smell new.
The owner selling the car had originally bought the vehicle for his wife, he also had his own vehicle and then his company provided a vehicle. So it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out that two people don’t need three cars, so the Charade just sat in his garage for two years. When I came across the deal not only was the car two years old, it had less than 800 kms on the speedometer. No that’s not a typo, imagine the shock on the mechanics eyes when you bring in the vehicle for it’s first 1000 km new car log book service which is usually performed within the first few months of ownership. Continue reading! »
In Chapter 2 of “Vagabonding” Rolf starts the chapter by recounting a story that comes from the tradition of the Desert Fathers, an order of Christian monks who lived in the wastelands of Egypt about seventeen hundred years ago.
“In the tale, a couple of monks named Theodore and Lucious shared the acute desire to go out and see the world. Since they’d made vows of contemplation, however, this was not something they were allowed to do. So, to satiate their wanderlust, Theodore and Lucious learned to “mock their temptations” by relegating their travels to the future. When the summertime came, they said to each other, “We will leave in the winter.” When the winter came, they said, “We will leave in the summer.” They went on like this for over fifty years, never once leaving the monastery or breaking their vows.
Most of us, of course, have never taken such vows – but we choose to live like monks anyway, rooting ourselves to a home or a career and using the future as a kind of phony ritual that justifies the present. In this way, we end up spending (as Thoureau put it) “the best part of one’s life earning money in order to enjoy a questionable liberty during the least valuable part of it.” We’d love to drop all and explore the world outside, we tell ourselves, but the time never seems right. Thus, given an unlimited amount of choices, we make none. Settling into our lives, we get so obsessed with holding on to our domestic certainties that we forget why we desired them in the first place.”
If your sick of being an armchair traveler watching travel shows but never really seeing those stunning places yourself or listening to friends and family returning excited from trips abroad then here are some simple suggestions to stop being an observer and become the experiencer: Continue reading! »
Friday’s weekly guide to Life Balance from 4EvaYoung.com
Bill Gates probably ranks as one of the most famous university drop outs of all time. He famously ended his Harvard education short when he established the dominant and hugely successful company “Microsoft” back in his dorm room on campus. His empire has stretched to all corners of the globe and there is hardly a desktop computer that doesn’t run on a Microsoft operating system. He has been on the top of the world’s rich list for decades and in 2000 he set up the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. In a Harvard Commencement Speech, Bill addresses his ongoing commitment to making a difference in the world and how we can all get involved.
1. Inequity Is A Problem We Can All Help To Solve
“But humanity’s greatest advances are not in its discoveries – but in how those discoveries are applied to reduce inequity. Whether through democracy, strong public education, quality health care, or broad economic opportunity – reducing inequity is the highest human achievement.” - Bill Gates
A UN report on world inequality finds that the richest 2 percent of adults own half the world’s assets. While we have seen considerable growth from countries like China and India in the past years there is still over 50% of the world’s population living on less than $2US a day. The first step to solving the inequity that continues to pervade our planet is to be willing to see the world from a wider lens. I think it is admirable that Bill’s foundation is guided in it’s belief that “every life has equal value, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation works to reduce inequities and improve lives around the world.” Continue reading! »
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