A Better Day 1 For Digital Nomads

5 years ago, I had no idea how to make money online, but I wanted travel right away.

 

I loved my first year as a digital nomad but it was the most financially stressful, emotionally taxing year of my life.

 

What I Wanted Day 1:

• Location Independence

• Financial Security

• Skill-Building Work

• Time To Learn Business

 

As a freelance writer (like graphic designers, software developers, and English teachers) I had most of this.

 

But I stopped freelancing (prematurely) because writing blog posts (“7 Ways To X!”) saved me from scraping the financial cement floor but it pushed my work towards my Exciting Future into the fringes of my day.

 

I knew that long-term, time spent learning to run a profitable location-independent business was far more important than time spent writing for clients, even though I needed money that day.

 

The problem was that ‘business work’ didn’t make any money. It wasn’t profitable and running little experiments actually cost me money. (What little I had…)

 

The Result = Daily Financial Trial-By-Fire + Extremely Slow Business Growth

 

A More Profitable Day 1: Travel Costs Covered + Business All Day Every Day

 

Why was I forced to split my time between working to earn money for today and working to learn business for the future?

 

Why didn’t someone with an established location-independent business pay my travel expenses while I worked for and learned from them?

 

What if, working for them, I built equity in their business and in myself simultaneously, while getting paid, instead of earning money during the day and moonlighting for what I truly cared about?

 

Day 1 Location Independence Is Part Of The Deal

 

Thailand, Mexico, Greece, Peru, Kenya… anywhere so long as your first destinations aren’t too expensive, and while I’m there I don’t need to worry about anything except learning the skills to build a profitable business.

 

If I could go anywhere, expenses paid, with no financial stress, I would have been thrilled. This freedom and peace-of-mind (plus a little motorcycling through the Thai countryside) gives me the ‘Awesome Present’ of digital nomad freedom and rapid-pace learning allows for the ‘Awesome Future’ that comes with owning a profitable, well-functioning business.

 

“Just Take The Leap And Be Ready To Learn. We’ll Take Care Of The Rest.”

 

I would have been thrilled to find a website with this headline 5 years ago, but I didn’t.

 

I would have learned faster, experienced less stress, enjoyed where I was much more, and my business would be much bigger today.