My New Home

I’m staying.

On Friday, I sent the last newsletter.

Tate same evening I went out for a salsa night.

I drove home screaming and laughing.

The first thing my friends heard when I got home was: “I’m staying.”

So I’m entering this bar -

- and meet young, cool expats dancing salsa together.

Work online.

Live here.

Meet.

Fast forward a couple of days, and I decided to..

signing the contract tomorrow.

I went even further, (literally, to a city 1h away)

Deciding not to move made space in my head.

Space for thing, I already had forgotten I enjoy.

Driving in the night just for the drive.

Playing guitar in a random bar.

Doing nothing on a Sunday.

Beach, laptop-less.

And I mean, it’s logical.

I don’t need to think about the next move.

Don’t need to figure out laundry.

Where’s good coffee?

How much is the gym?

What’s the way home?

and honestly..

it feels so good.

I’m the most fulfilled I have been.

there is no fear of missing out!

Because I’m still here next week!

And the one after, too!

Argh it feels so good to hold a guitar in my hands again.

MY guitar.

And it’s also the best one I had!

(apparently many guitars come from Indonesia, this cost me 70€ and is better than what I bought for hundreds)

So am I still a nomad?

I see the nomad community putting “it’s complicated” in geolocation instead of relationship status

I don’t know. And I don’t care right now, either.

I guess it’s the first time I followed my gut for real.

(Un)fortunately, I needed to feel very exhausted to take action.

You can’t make a horse drink water.

Yes you can.

Put it in a cage, wash it’s mouth with soap and put a bucket with clean water besides.

Conditions make us thrive.

Ever felt like working from home makes you procrastinate more?

Or craving a cigarette after seeing somebody pull a pack?

Maybe you have even hidden or throven away leftover chocolate, just to make yourself stop.

the “surround yourself with people you wanna become” thing also works with objects.

I need routine to work, to be creative, to build.

It’s a weird feeling to commit to this, because of the “what if!?” - but “whatifs” have never brought me anywhere. Doing stuff brought me far.

Nomad Nexus got applications

3 of those just after launching an ad campaign.

And positive feedback in facebook groups, after sitting down and removing my “sales” filter from my head.

Just typing out what I feel.

This is how it turned out:

I think this is the way to go - it seems to be more appealing and organic - and really hard to write.

Hard, because I have the whole landing page copy in my head.

Because I constantly try to make it sound simpler, more appealing, more targeted to the ICP, and bla bla bla.

Obviously, I want to fill this event.

I was never demotivated, although under pressure the last couple of weeks.

It made it harder to remove this filter.

Such a huge mindset topic - faith, confidence and authenticity.

Follow this journey live along on instagram:

What do you think of settling down?

Answer to this email, I WILL READ IT!

Thanks for reading this far, I appreciate every one of you!

Enjoy life.

Cheers!

You can apply for Nomad Nexus happening in Lombok October 16th - 30th HERE.