We have just over a month until everything gets turned upside down (ish) and our family hits the road. I am keen to document the choices that led us to the point of being able to try this-so I am sharing the 10 strategies I used to leave my job and hit the road. I have no idea if this project will succeed-or even what my exact definition of success is for this project. I think that there will be moment of ups and downs and so long as there isn’t a precipitous nosedive, then we will have to choose to create a narrative of success from the obstacles of day-to-day life. I wrote a blog post about the questions I asked myself in order to get to this point with this project and the definitions of success and failure are part of that.

I want to empower others to think realistically about following their dreams. I don’t claim to have any special ability that has enabled me to follow mine and that’s really the take away-not about specific goals but about recognizing the strategies that allow us to create change in our lives. That’s a pretty broad scope, if you think about it.

This episode isn’t a get-rich-quick scheme or an internet marketing pitch. It’s not a peter-pan romance either. It’s a realistic look at how I took my goal of climbing, traveling and creating media with my family and got in a reasonable enough position to give it a shot. Where that risk will land us ultimately will be the subject matter of future episodes! So, here are the 10 strategies I used to leave my job and hit the road:

  • Take a realistic look at the situation
  • Find a supportive partner (in this case my spouse)
  • Identify a broader support network
  • Embrace downward social mobility
  • Identify skills and assets to leverage as sources of income
  • Identify comforts that you can do without
  • Create manageable goals
  • Minimize debt
  • Define when it’s time to give up
  • Know why the risk is worth possible failure

This episode was recorded on the fly with a shotgun mic and external audio recorder-I want to keep looking at the different means for producing this show with increasingly less…space. It’s a work in progress, an interesting experiment to see how I can get the best quality out of the resources at hand!

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