30 Ways in 30 Days to Redesign Your Life and Travel the World
17. Aug, 2009 
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Let’s face it, if money was no issue, you’d already be traveling. In fact, if you have a passport, a clean change of clothes and a dream destination, you already have everything you need to travel. The problem is, of course, what happens after your Visa gets shut off, you have no more cash and your boss fires you for not showing up to work. Obviously, you need a better plan than hopping the next flight to Toyko.
This September and October, I’ll help you build that plan.
I’ll be posting the practical, real world steps you need to take to get from wherever you are, to exactly where you want to be. I’ll be talking about dealing with debt and financial obligations, finding remote work, deciding whether to store or sell, saving for travel and everything else it takes to make long term world travel a reality.
But I need your help. I’m looking for the toughest dilemmas: give me your real world scenarios and I’ll attempt to address as many of them as possible. Post your story in the comments below or contact me directly at christine.gilbert@gmail.com.
Also be sure to bookmark this page, as I’ll be updating here with links to each post as they are posted.
What would it take for you to redesign your life and travel the world?
Posts
Day 01 The Mental Shift to Begin the Redesign
Day 02 The Travel Diet
Day 03 Turning Your Job Digital
Day 04 Convincing Your Loved One to Travel Too
Day 05 Bringing Your Pets Around the World
Day 06 Safe, Affordable and Clean – Finding Places to Stay When You Travel
Day 07 Planning a Travel Budget that Works
Day 08 Selling Your House in the Downturn
Day 09 The Trouble With Saving
Day 10 Staying Forever – Living in Another Country
Day 11 Whatever You Do, Don’t Become a Travel Writer
Day 12 Taking the Classroom on the Road
Day 13 Getting Health Insurance When You Travel
Day 14 Holy Crap, What Have I Done? (Pre-trip jitters)
Day 15 The Not-So-Secret Trick to Finding Cheap Airfare
Day 16 Becoming a Digital Nomad, Freelance Edition
Day 17 Extreme Debt – Pay or Stay
Day 18 The Part-time Digital Nomad
Day 19 Paying Bills Online and Other Sundry Tasks
Day 20 67 Travel Friendly Jobs to Consider
Day 21 Common Sense Safety While Traveling
Day 22 Telling Your Friends and Family
Day 23 Becoming a Digital Nomad: Small Business Edition
Day 24 The Art of Unplanning
Day 25 Advanced Digital Nomading – The Time Shift
Day 26 Watching TV/Movies Overseas
Day 27 Traveling Homeschoolers Speak – How They Do It
Day 28 How to Make More Money
Day 29 Getting a Job When You Return
Day 30 Take a Breath, This is Happening
Author’s Note: This concludes the 30 Days series. If you have a question or problem that wasn’t addressed by the series, I still want to hear about it. Feel free to leave a comment or email me directly at christine.gilbert@gmail.com. In the next few weeks I’ll be putting this series into an ebook, along with some bonus materials and answers to any other questions you may have. (And if I don’t have the answer, I’m very good at connecting people with those who do). I hope this series was helpful! And don’t forget to send me those postcards. 
I think for many people the dream of travelling the world is better than the actually doing it part. If you truly want to do it, you will find a way. It may take you 1,2,5, 10 years of planning. It is never too late or you are never too old for travel.
Dreams are for making come true and the only person that can make them come true is ourselves.
The prospect of travelling the world isn’t something that appeals to me. My goal is just to get enough money together to head back to the Caribbean for another 9 month trip lazing about.
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yes just some months away and then come back is all I want,not living on Bali for the rest of my life,though of course Bali is beautiful.
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christine you LEGEND!!
really really inspiring and well-written grounded smoldering undiluted awwwwsomeness
so cool that you got up and made it happen proper. and are helping other people unleash inevitable un-awesomeness.
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keep well christine dearest!
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Wow, I love your idea. Would you write a guest blog for Outdoorbaby.net.
My husband and I are in the works of planning a leave but we are thinking more in ten years than in thirty days, but your tips are great and are an inspiration.
We don’t own a house or a car. We have very little dept, but we have no credit cards no savings and a three year old and a three month old. Any tips for us?
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Hello,
What a great idea.
My husband and I are planning a leave but we are thinking of it for in a few years.
We have no dept, no car, no house, but no credit cards and no savings and we have a three year old and a three month old? Any tips for people with kids?
Also, would you be interested in a guest blog on outdoorbaby.net
Heidi
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RIGHT WITH A TITLE LIKE THAT THE COMMENT DESERVES CAPITALS. ABSOLUTELY AWESOME.
It is now book marked as my homepage and I will be working my way through them.
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Wow, what a fabulous post. I thought O covered t in one post, hehehehe, Now I can really get down to it and read what you think. I look forward to coming back and talking more about it in detail.
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Wow! That is an impressive list of very useful posts! I’ve read them all and think they can be tremendously useful for many persons that want to travel, but just never seem to know how to get going!
There are really lots of very useful tips and advices! Many of then were already known by me, but yet valuable, to sort of get things I’ve been thinking of myself confirmed: I’m not that crazy… *giggles*
I hadn’t thought of that clever way of figure out a travel budget – very useful indeed!
I’m surprised over all the comments you’ve got here with so many different questions or request of help!!! Looks like people really want to get away.
Oh, and I’ve also read your ebook Twitter for Travelers twice now and that one is as useful as this 30 days-posts are! You’ve done a great work compiling so much useful information and links at one place – and for a very generously low price.
Thanks
I like where your head’s at!!
Might take me a while to get through it all but thanks for all the info