Do you know how many pages a day Norman Mailer wrote when working on his novel The Naked and the Dead? Seven. Double-spaced. Assuming that he could fit an average of 250 words on a page, that sums up to about 1750 words. 1750 words a day. And these 1750 words per day were reached […]
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How to Live Life at Your Own Pace (Part 4): Travel
We tend to think that all we deserve is two weeks of vacation in a nice hotel complex down South each year. No matter if we’re entrepreneurs, regular employees, or pro-bloggers. Actually, most pro-bloggers don’t even think they deserve that. And when it comes to business trips or location independence, many of us stress out, […]
How to Live Life at Your Own Pace (Part 3): Work and Study
When it comes to living life at our own pace, work is a major issue. Most of us will spend half of our waking hours working, and often enough, we won’t really enjoy it. And while it is inevitable to deal with some unpleasant tasks to survive, we often tend to exaggerate. In a perfectionist […]
How to Live Life at Your Own Pace (Part 2): Communication and Media
Just when you thought that the Tempo Giusto series was dead, here we go again. :) For many of us internet people, finding a comfortable level of communication and media consumption is one of the major challenges on the way of reaching our personal tempo giusto lifestyle. While we enjoy the advantages and luxuries of […]
Slower Travels, Lessons Learned
Spending the last few weeks on the street once again confirmed my general approach to slower travel. While other location independents call themselves “professionals” – and, certainly, deservedly so – I am more a location independent dilettante kind of guy. Give me six months in Cartagena and (some) work will get done. Give me a […]