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How to prepare for working without wifi

Location, location, location. It’s not just an expression used by real estate agents. It’s something you might want to give some serious thought to. Three years ago on a particularly rainy day, I was sitting on the train doing my normal one-hour commute to work and I was thinking about the meaning of life. Cue…

How to prepare for working without wifi

The benefits of being a digital nomad are well publicized and are what draw so many to this lifestyle in the first place. What’s harder to talk about, and what often gets glossed over, are the very real obstacles you will encounter along the way. It’s been more than three years since I started my…

How to prepare for working without wifi

I run not just one, but two online businesses. Yet I spend a lot of time offline on airplanes and expedition ships, and I take road trips frequently. It might seem strange for someone who makes their living online to constantly espouse the importance of consistency in being offline for stretches of time…but it’s quite…

How to prepare for working without wifi

Ahhh, long distance relationships. They start out so full of hope and enthusiasm – but all that sizzle can quickly fizzle. The phone calls become texts, the texts become emails…and before you know it, your communication has been reduced to a “Happy Birthday” one-liner on your Facebook wall once a year. That’s because long distance…

How to prepare for working without wifi

We’ve all read articles about running a location-independent business and working four hours a week, while sitting on the beach and raking in the money. This isn’t one of those articles. What this is: My honest version of what my location-independent lifestyle looks like as I travel and run my solo business. In my reading…

How to prepare for working without wifi

Have you ever picked one coffee shop over another just because it had better wifi? Yep, me too. The ability to work anywhere is amazing, but it comes with a catch — constant reliance on connecting to the Internet. Needless to say, as digital solopreneurs, we live on wifi — and tend to panic when…