Preparation-You Can’t Take It With You

I was never one to follow the crowd. To me, the things they wanted to do seemed a bit childish or just stupid. My idea of excitement was anything that would or could capture and hold my attention, if only for a brief second. After all, first impressions are impressive. I am a thinker and a planner. I like things with purpose. I like information, how it works, and how you can apply it to make it work for you. I believe everything comes from a single source and interacts with each of us in the manner we interact with it.

When I started this journey many many years ago in 2008, I decided to visit as many National Parks as I could and blog about my trips. I would do this until I was financially ready to take that international leap. The goal for traveling internationally was to stay in a country for an extended period. So I started researching the various types of visas that are out there. I found out that your passport is good enough for staying up to 180 day (six months) in most countries. That should be long enough for me to make up my mind about living in a place for an extended stay or just keep visiting it.

The hardest thing for me to wrap my mind around was to adjust to not having a physical place to call my own, a place I could call home. We have been taught at a very early age to buy a house and live in it until we die. My experience in life has been that financially, there is not much left in cash to do any real traveling unless you use credit cards. Then you’re stuck with a third problem how do I pay them off? So if you’re like me those two things will stop you dead in your tracks if you don’t change the way you see things. Visions is the main part of manifesting. As I said perception is everything.

I suggest that you find a job that allows you to work remotely or create some passive income by selling a product or offering a service. If you are retired or have a steady income, then you’re on your way. The trick is to pay the same amount of money for rent or less in the country you decided to visit as you would in your home country for me the USA. This will allow you to stay anywhere consistently.

Conquering these two will put you in the position to start “Living Your Dream”. I believe that if one thinks about it he or she can achieve it, but keep in mind that acts without deeds produce nothing. There will always be something that will have to be done or completed. Some of these things are designed to see how badly you want it. Most things that we give up are our emotional dependency on people who depend on us. I won’t get into the personality type at this time, but just keep that in mind. When you remove yourself from that environment you can focus on the things you need to accomplish your current goal of “Living Your Dream”

I do believe the universe only gives us the things we need to reach our goals. All the other things are just noise and man-made interference. The universe doesn’t wait until you are ready, it just produces what you ask for. It doesn’t hold anything against you if you change your mind or can’t finish the task. And it will supply it every time you ask for it. Sometimes it provides different tools and devices. That’s because we get what we asked for based on where you are in a particular place/point in time. The problem we sometimes don’t recognize where we are.

One of the things I would tell myself was that this was just an end to a means. Not understanding the full weight of what I was saying. It dawned on me that I had no purpose for doing the things I was doing because there was nothing I was working towards or trying to accomplish. So I couldn’t see the value in the money I was making/saving or in the things I was buying. It was all random. It wasn’t until I decided to travel, and that inventory of what I had or what I had or had not done to get me closer to my goal.

Here is an example of what I’m talking about. When I decided to travel I had to take stock of what I had, both in currency and stuff. The money I was saving would go towards the trip. The thing I brought had no purpose in my travel plans. So I had to adjust my thinking about purchases based on my travel and not based on having a home.

Universal alignment is kind of automatic, I decided I wanted to leave sometime in June or July 2024, this was back in March. But I hadn’t even sent in for my passport to be renewed. So that was my birthday present to myself, considering I couldn’t buy myself anything. So I filled out the application and took it down to the Post Office that was processing applications for PassPorts, not all P.O.s do it. I got it back within 30 Days. For me that was my confirmation that this was the best thing for me. I was leaving the country for the first time. Life tends to make us either feel guilty about our decisions or question them when they come without complications. In that moment I knew for certain I had leveled up my game.

My reality was that I had to get rid of my things. I looked for people to give my things to. But it’s not a one-stop thing. And then there was the problem of people picking what they wanted and wanting you to hold it until they got paid. So I decided to donate my things. That metal attachment we have to things, I don’t have. If I bought it once, I could buy it again if I needed it.

Some things in life take us out of our comfort zones. For me, it wasn’t the moving and traveling that was something right up my alley. it was the attachment I had to certain things like clothes and technology. I soon found out that none of my clothing would be suitable for the type of traveling I would be doing. Everything I needed and wanted would have to fit into one bag no more than two. I soon discovered that my needs would overcome my wants.

This brings me to something else about manifesting and the power of words. I would tell people “I am” a minimalist. Well, I didn’t know what the word meant. But by saying the words I became just that, both by choice and universal intervention. Words do have power. But we can talk more about that in another blog.

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