< Previoushe key to freedom is to take what feels aligned with you and your soul and leave the rest, with love and acceptance. No one else, including me can tell you what freedom means to you, what it feels like to you. I guess the only question really worth asking is actually “What does freedom mean to YOU?” What I, or anyone else thinks may not be relevant to you at all. It is up to you to define it and to own what it means to you but stop seeking it, find it in your now. TFREEDOM LIFESTYLEBy Gaelle Lecourt HOW TO DESIGN YOUR TI quit my highly paid job in the USA without a plan B, sold everything and blew off to Mexico. I wanted FREEDOM. So on November 8th 2014, I landed in Playa del Carmen, Mexico with my 2 suitcases to start a new chapter of my Life. hree years ago,had no idea if that was the first stop of a one-year-around- the-world-trip or the beginning of something totally different... IAnd I wasn’t the only one! With more than 5 million visitors per year coming to this touristic city, I was in the front row observing a whole new world that was opening to me... More and more people seek Freedom by traveling and many find it by embracing the digital nomad lifestyle. Like me, instead of just taking their two weeks of annual vacation, they decide to redesign their life and make travel a core pillar of it, thanks to the “laptop lifestyle” (aka working online).Before you embrace the Freedom Lifestyle, there is an important question you need to ask yourself: AThey do this, for recreational purposes and may have a job (or maybe a business) back home, although they really take a break when on vacation. Some people take a break in their career and go travelling by relying on their savings. backpacker is someone who travels the world with their backpack.A digital nomad is someone who works online while travelling the world. Some digital nomads are freelancers or work for an employer (with all the benefits that includes) in their home country and can work anywhere. For example, one of my friends is a graphic designer for a Dutch magazine and spent the winter in Mexico, roamed Western Europe and is now in Turkey! An online entrepreneur is someone who has an online business. They don’t necessarily travel the world (for example Mompreneurs work from their home) although in Playa del Carmen, 90% of the people I met who were online entrepreneurs did travel the world! Some very well known travel and lifestyle bloggers have decided to significantly reduce their travel lifestyle and create a homebase in order to focus on growing their business for a while.As the administrator of a Facebook Group for the Digital Nomad in Playa del Carmen, I met lots of them. An Australian friend told me that staying 3 months in one spot was the best balance he found between keeping the adventure flame ignited and being efficient in his business. And I completely agree, especially as I help women to start their online businesses. They definitely need to gain business momentum first. It seemed to me that Digital Nomads who were remote employees could travel much more often (every two weeks for example), but they still had to face the challenges of finding fast and reliable wifi as soon as they arrive somewhere to ensure they stay connected (which in some countries meant moving to another city!). Of course, the online entrepreneur journey is the best training in personal growth you will ever get in Life, but it may be you consider being employed remotely more beneficial. Even if you have kids, don’t think that you have to wait to embrace this Freedom Lifestyle! I have seen many digital nomad and online entrepreneurs’ families in Playa del Carmen. The kids were homeschooled or enrolled in a local school. DESIGNING YOUR FREEDOM LIFESTYLE THAT ALLOWS YOU TO TRAVEL MORE COULD BECOME A REALITY. BUT FIRST, MAKE SURE YOU GET CLEAR ON WHAT LIFESTYLE YOU DESIRE SO YOU CAN CHOOSE YOUR BEST SOLUTION!DESIGNING YOUR FREEDOM LIFESTYLE THAT ALLOWS YOU TO TRAVEL MORE COULD BECOME A REALITY. BUT FIRST, MAKE SURE YOU GET CLEAR ON WHAT LIFESTYLE YOU DESIRE SO YOU CAN CHOOSE YOUR BEST SOLUTION!FREEDOM BEGINS WITHINBy Sue Lester you give your personal power and freedom away. Eleanor Roosevelt famously summed this up, saying, “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” Nelson Mandela, freed after spending 27 years of his life incarcerated, said, “As I walked out the door toward the gate that would lead to my freedom, I knew if I didn’t leave my bitterness and hatred behind, I’d still be in prison.” He understood he could be free in his mind, although his body was locked up, or vice versa, mentally and emotionally imprisoned while his body walked free. s soon as you blame someone else for your anger, hurt or unhappiness, Aand the choices we make in each moment determine whether our moments add up to a mostly sweet, sour, or bland life. The fact you are reading this article means you have more choices in your daily life than billions of others on the planet. It may not feel like that at times, but consider how many choices you make from the moment you open your eyes in the morning. Whether to get up immediately or snooze for 5, to exercise or not, all your choices of clothing, toiletries, makeup, food and drink, to check your phone or radio or tv, and that’s all in the first hour just for yourself, let alone choices you make for others. You always have a choice, and when youcatch yourself saying you don’t, it’s simply because you don’t like the consequences or the other option/s. YOU ALWAYS HAVE A CHOICEOur lives are simply a series of moments,Both combine to construct your unconscious blueprint™ which in turn influences the choices you make across all areas of your life, moment by moment. Your unconscious blueprint™ is your internal image or images of yourself. It can be dramatically younger than your chronological age, or similar, empowering or disempowering. If you often feel less than ‘grown up’, lack self-confidence or often feel unsafe or overwhelmed or reckless, then you may have a much younger unconscious blueprint™. If you struggle to shed excess kilos you may have an overweight or unhealthy internal image which needs to be updated to a healthier version to reprogram your body. How to identify and change your unconscious blueprints is explained in detail in my book “The Face Within: How To Change Your Unconscious Blueprint”. You can start by relaxing your mind and body with gentle breathing and just mentally ask to see yourself, and without judgement simply observe what image/s appear. You may have a sense or knowing without seeing it clearly, and that’s perfectly fine too. We also have unconscious blueprints of others, and once again, those images can empower or disempower them or you. hat self-talk is self- programming, Tand you’ve probably noticed how you can talk yourself into or out of anything. The quality of your self-talk is partly determined by your experiences and influences growing up, shaping your beliefs and values, and partly by your education and conscious choices on your part. Think about those you are intimidated by, and those you are dismissive of, particularly in the workplace.How does that impact your working day, and influence your relationships and progress? If you run your own business, is it impacting your ability to have invoices paid on time? Think about those who complain about how you treat them, including your adolescent or adult children, for example. It is not uncommon, though not healthy, to have unconsciousblueprints of your older children when they were young, so cute, and needed you in the centre of their world. It's harder to respect a colleague you ‘see’ as an irresponsible teenager, for example. Racial, religious and cultural stereotypes can strongly influence unconscious blueprints too. Fortunately, what you are aware of, you can change. When the passion disappears from your relationship, it can be a sign your unconscious blueprint of him (or yourself) has become less than sexy, perhaps turned into another irritating teenager to pick up after. Rest assured he can be turned back into that sexy stud- muffin you married, at least in your internal programming! True freedom begins within, by giving yourself permission. Yes, you may need to learn how to re-programme your internal image, habits and thoughts, but that’s okay. Next >