I recently read a “self-help” book entitled “Mindset: How You Can Fulfil Your Potential” - and trust me, this isn’t the kind of wanky bollocks that I’m normally keen on. If it lacks mages, spaceships or nerd humour I’m usually not interested but, on this instance a few factors came into play that made me give it a go (and, spoiler alert, it’s pretty damn good, so I’m glad that I did!).
I’ve finally gone and done it, that unconscionable, ruthless and nonsensical act tantamount to modern social suicide. I’ve deleted my Facebook account. And I do feel rather vitriolic about it :D.
Picked up a pair of noise cancelling headphones recently and life now contains significantly less of the mind-numbing drivel that I’m usually forced to put up with than it did before. Here’s some reasons why they’re a perfect fit for remote working & location independence.
So it turns out that the south of Portugal has beautiful coastlines, countryside, fishes, wine, sun, waves and even a nice southerly breeze. I’d ask you not to tell anyone but I think the cat’s already out of the bag… fuckers.
Lisbon seems to be the western-european mecca for digital nomads at the minute so, to avoid using any brain-power whatsoever, we made it our first stop. It was a good choice.