Posts in Digital Nomad
If you’re alone, you’ll go home
If you’re alone, you’ll go home

You’re about to see me in a way that I rarely share on social media.

I carefully manage my public image, “my brand,” as I’m sure most of us do. On social media, we share our wins, and we share our struggles after the fact when we have some perspective and have had the chance to tidy our hair and fix our makeup for a camera-ready “tell-all”.

Over the last six months I’ve had some of the most incredible moments of my life. However, I’ve also been fed up, tired, bored and frightened. I shared some of my ordeals as they happened. But not all.

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Digital Nomad, Personal Development, CoachingBlaire PalmerThe Big Trip, Life Lessons, Personal Growth
Changing your situation won’t change your state
Changing your situation won’t change your state

The biggest misconception about happiness is that is it the result of our situation. If you have money, a nice house, a relationship, healthy kids and a job that befits your talents you will be happy. If you lose that job or your child gets sick or your relationship breaks down you won’t be happy.

We know this isn’t true. The evidence is everywhere. We operate from an “If only…” perspective and focus our attentions on changing the hygiene factors in our lives - the jobs we do, the place we live, the holidays we go on, the throw cushions we just have to have that will make us feel so much better every time we walk in to the living room….

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Digital Nomad, Careers, Personal DevelopmentBlaire PalmerCareer Advice
And then the dog ate the fruitcake…
And then the dog ate the fruitcake…

Life on the road has many, many advantages: lower costs and being able to go where the wind and the work takes you. As a digital nomad, you can be free from the repetition of the standard 9-5 workweek.

But, life on the road also comes with an amount of unpredictability. While that can be thrilling and adventurous, it can also be stressful and tedious. Wandering around someone else’s back garden waving your laptop in the air, trying to catch a mystical wifi signal to send an email or find something on the internet is agitating and not the best use of anyone’s time.

However, the stresses of ‘mobile emergency’ situations can be limited by three “contingencies” and every digital nomad should have them in place to successfully live and work during their travels.

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Digital NomadBlaire PalmerVan Life, Take Action
No More Weekends - 4 practices for unpicking the working week
No More Weekends - 4 practices for unpicking the working week

It’s Good Friday and I’m working.

I’m a little resentful of this even though I have no rational reason to be. Yesterday I stopped working at midday and went to Aberystwyth with Ivy, spending the afternoon in the lovely museum there and rockpooling on the beach. On Wednesday we drove from North Wales to mid-Wales and I barely even checked my email en route.

So why should I feel hard done by if I spend a few hours on Good Friday writing and catching up on my correspondence?

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Digital Nomad, Coaching, Personal DevelopmentBlaire Palmersay no to the 9-5, unworking
The 3 Reasons I'm Becoming a Digital Nomad... and you could too.
The 3 Reasons I'm Becoming a Digital Nomad... and you could too.

Do you ever look at those photos on Instagram of bare feet and toasty brown legs, topped and tailed with a laptop on the bottom of the shot and the beach and sea on the top of the shot and think “What a w*@ker”?

Me too. There’s something highly provocative about some lucky dude who has managed to find a way to live somewhere beautiful, combine their work with a lifestyle that makes us all green with envy and get an even tan (no sign of mosquito bites ever!).

But why shouldn’t we all have this opportunity? What if we do?

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Digital NomadBlaire PalmerPersonal Growth, Motivation, Van Life, The Big Trip