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- Sprache: Englisch
To the wild-hearted adventurers longing to break the norms, create a life on the own terms and make their visions into a reality. Everything should have been perfect. A perfect job after a perfect university program, amazing friends and fun activities to occupy her in her spare time. The map was all laid out, better job, more money, bigger house, settle down and get a family and live happily afterwards. But she didn't want it. Didn't want to continue to build that "perfect life". This is a compilation of her insights from life, business and everything during her travels. This book is for you who long to leave a box that is too small for you. If that resonates with you; now is the time to play big, to act on your passions and go for your dreams. This book is your support and inspiration on that journey.
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I promise to keep my heart wild and my soul free.
Being true
means listening to yourself first and foremost, honoring your core beliefs and deep truths, no matter what others might think. You will go against norms and expectations, leave status quo behind and face your own illusions of who you thought you had to be. You will experience loved ones trying to convince you not to pursue your dreams or believe in your visions and you will have to be entirely vulnerable whilst bold and brave. Allowing yourself to change, step out of your box and be completely free takes courage and perseverance, which is why most people fail.
You are not most people.
One beginning
Thirteen years ago, I was road tripping with a friend along the east coast of Australia. Confidently, with the hunger of a young explorer, I said that I was going to come back and stay for at least a year on this amazing continent. However, my upcoming travels brought me elsewhere and eventually I went to University, as one should.
Five years ago I was stuck in a job that drained my soul, looking for the next step. I remember looking at the Australia bullet on my bucket list, thinking to myself ”too bad that won’t happen”. I was stuck in the belief that I needed to focus on a career and getting a stable life with a family and all that comes with settling and growing up... All the norms said so, and I thought I had to do so in order to be what people called ”successful”. Heck, I even thought I wanted it!
Three years ago I said ”who the hell says that it won’t happen!”. And I quit my job. And I got the visa. And I bought the ticket. Before the year was over I was on a plane to southern Australia. From there on, I was a location independent business woman, traveller and explorer. And I was so excited, thrilled, happy and relieved. It was so right. The trip was a marker for the most important change I had made in a long time, and the words I wrote on that day ended with: ”this is me, surrendering to my truth. From now on, it will lead the way. Thank you.” This book is what followed.
Me and my car in West Australia
Table of Contents
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Chapter 31
Chapter 32
Chapter 33
Chapter 34
Chapter 35
Chapter 36
Chapter 37
Chapter 38
Chapter 39
Chapter 40
Chapter 41
Chapter 42
Chapter 43
Chapter 44
Chapter 45
Chapter 46
Chapter 47
Chapter 48
Chapter 49
Chapter 50
Chapter 51
1
Traveler. Adventurer. Dreamer. I know what that fear feels like!
Every time I am about to take on a new journey I am afraid, because I know that I will feel alone.
I am scared about the times I will feel lost, not fitting in, misunderstood, with no one to talk to who gets me.
But I am eager and impassioned for the times when I will feel the kindness from a stranger, the beauty of new places, the excitement of adventures, the joy of new friends, the oneness with the world that I get from traveling. Only where there is fear, there can be bravery. And I know that in the end, the one question that I will ask myself is; ”when I had the chance, did I choose courage over comfort?” *
*inspired by Brené Brown
2
I believe success is about trusting your instinct, following your gut and listening to your heart; knowing which rules to follow and which to break.
I think of life as a video game sometimes: we didn’t set the course, build the world (read: society) or make the rules. Those are all presets. But we can choose how we play, we can find the shortcuts, the worm holes, glitches and bugs to use to our advantage. We can cheat, we don’t have to play the way the rule makers expected, we can even hack the game and reconstruct it. There is no point in being against it or hide and refuse to play. Just find your own way through and leave it a better world for the players after you.
Learning when to break rules, when to bend them and when to follow them, is essential for controlling the game instead of it controlling you. Perhaps you can even win this shit, but only if you don’t play like everyone else.
3
I find that dreaming of, and planning (and let’s admit it: dreading) new adventures, trips and courageous moves in life can be so much harder than the actual doing. Because what you’re about to do seems so big, and you can only imagine how different it will be, but when you get there it’s the new norm — right there and then it’s just what people do.
When planning on climbing a mountain from your living room it feels huge — but when you’re actually on that mountain every one you meet is doing something similar. When thinking of learning to free dive it seems super hard, but when taking a diving course everyone else attending is doing the same thing. Same with running your own business. What you do becomes the new normal — and that counts for everything.
