Why wait until you're rich or retired?

 

Editor’s note: the following is a guest post by Rob of The Life Design Project. Follow him on Twitter @robgranholm.

In light of the recently popular posts on what lifestyle design really means, its questioned death, and revived life, I was challenged with analyzing what actually goes on as one attempts to live life on their own terms.

You can call it whatever you like, but the concepts of the coined term, lifestyle design manifest themselves in a definite path. We all take different steps, from internalized thoughts to outward expression, but, living life your way certainly has phases. Let’s discuss them, and some great resources for finding out more.

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Unautomate Your FinancesAdam Baker from Man Vs. Debt has had an incredible year.

He and his wife Courtney took control of their financial lives last year after $80,000 in non-mortgage debt nearly led to disaster.

Instead of continuing down the path of least resistance, Baker and Courtney sold most of their stuff, paid off tons of debt and moved halfway around the world to Australia, New Zealand and Thailand. All of this was with their new toddler Milligan in tow.

Baker also managed to build a 5,000 subscriber personal finance blog on top of all that. He’s the kind of guy who really gets sh*t done.

Baker packaged up all of the knowledge, tips and tricks he used to radically change his life over the past year into one awesome guide called Unautomate Your Finances that launches today.

Check out Unautomate Your Finances now

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Thinking about redesigning your life is exciting, but for most of us it is overwhelming, too – so overwhelming that most of never make the leap to do it.

We envision our roadblocks much easier than we do the big dream, don’t we?

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Have you noticed how easy it is to burn through several hours online without really accomplishing anything? I could easily (and sometimes do) spend 4+ hours a day just between email, Twitter, Facebook and reading/commenting on blogs.

And that’s a BIG problem. Unless you make an income solely by participating in conversations online, there are probably other things you should be doing.

Just staying busy might feel like you’re accomplishing something, but staying busy is a false success. What really matters is what you’re getting done by staying busy.

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Editors note: The following is a guest article written by Chip Kohrman, founder of Telesaur. Chip was one of the winners of our recent guest post contest. Find out more about Chip at the end of the post.

It’s been decades since I heard a good nursery rhyme before bed, but I’ve relearned them for my own children. Nursery rhymes are like a circus: senior citizens living in shoes, visually impaired mice, personified cutlery running around town. The kids love it.

And really, who can ignore Humpty Dumpty? Shell shocked and shattered, all over the ground, with a bunch of horses trying to put his fragmented frame back together again? By the way, those were the king’s horses… and you know those royal steeds had saddles full of cash.

Couldn’t they have just outsourced it all to someone with opposable thumbs?

Someday, you too will hunch over a big pile of Dumpty, with nothing but your hooves. In preparation for that day, we can learn three things from Humpty Dumpty’s fall.

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