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Long term overseas travel, or vagabonding, could be the first step toward escaping your country. It also helps you think outside the box and remove daily pressures to conform.

Removing yourself from the rat race or someone�s system (like a workplace) allow you to take a breath and find new perspectives and sense of directions. In a relaxed foreign environment, you might start to ponder things that you never dared to think about, discover hidden strengths and potentials, and let go of unproductive attachments that are holding you down.

The first step toward escape from your country is to escape from your workplace. The possibility of getting a work from home arrangement with your bosses depends on how serious you are in learning the art of disappearance.

There are whole sets of skills and tools devoted to the hidden art of disappearance, and exodus-from-9to5.com is going to reveal everything to you.

While every country has its own set of problems, there are a lot of benefits in mastering a more nomadic lifestyle and giving yourself more options.

There are many under-priced products, services, hidden-assets, offshore investment and properties scattered around the world. I call them under-priced because, to you and I, the equivalent may worth much more in North America, but we can get it much cheaper overseas.

A middle-income individual from U.S. or Canada could enjoy royalty luxuries overseas, if you only master 2 skills �the skill of knowing where to find great stuff and the skill of disappearing from your workplace while keeping your income.

Don�t get me wrong. I am not talking about exploiting people in the third world country or us being superior than others. It�s simply about taking advantage of the strength, diversity, and specialty of different regions.

Also, think about giving back or commit to some great causes with power of your own community and cultural inheritance. What is common in North America might worth a tons overseas. For example, offshore jobs such as teaching English in Korea or China, using professional knowledge to volunteer in a third world country, or other knowledge and tools that are easily accessible in North America but are expensive and precious in developing countries.

No one is an island, but there are people in your life that you should run away from, at least temporarily. Knowing that no one is too important to avoid is an important step toward liberation.

We all have encountered bullies, nasty-boys, and critics at some points. This is inevitable and maybe even beneficial to personal growth if we respond to it properly.

� Do you find yourself rehearsing many times the hurtful words that were being said to you?
� Is anyone making you feel insecure and confused about your strengths, abilities, achievements, likeableness, intelligence or etc, but you feel you can�t make it alone without him or her?
� Let says there is someone trying to impose on you his or her standard, philosophies, beliefs, or like and dislike. He or she would go out of his or her own way to force you comply, using underhanded tactics such as guilt, threats, put downs, or embarrassments. You were angry and hurt. And here is the test question: Were you afraid to confront that person due to concerns about money, job security, break down of relationships, fear of confrontations or any other lost?
� Is there anyone who makes you thinking about revenge?
� Have your mind been occupied by all the wrongs they have done to you?

The more yes to the above test questions, the deeper you are attached to those who torment you. It can become destructive and draining to your health, productivity, and personal development if you let them continue their grasp on you.

On the other hand, after the test you may find out that you are the one who inflicts torments on others. An extensive retreat from daily routine allows time for self-awareness and confrontation with self.

If you find it hard to detach from the tormentors in your life, then vagabonding is an excellent way to practice detachment. Outward detachment helps you create inner detachment.

Some call it retreat. Some call it sabbatical. Long-term travel can be a spiritual, emotional, and physical rejuvenation. If you are religious, take this opportunity to practice spiritual discipline such as prayer and meditation, devote yourself into deep search for harmony with God or find out the truth that you have been seeking.

You may also learn something new to enrich your life: Martial Arts, dance, languages, music, art� You might just stumble onto something that could hold the key to developing your potential.

You may have greater talents than Tiger Wood, Donald Trump, or Stephen King at what they do, but if you never give yourself enough time and resource to do it, it doesn�t matter.

If you vagabond, why not also take some lessons or work on your passions? You will have plenty of time and freedom to do what you love, which are prerequisites to effective learning. When you vagabond, you live in a location for at least a month because it is much more affordable than moving from place to place. It also allows you enough time to absorb the culture and enjoy the best things from the region. In fact, it is best to slow down the pace if you want to use this time to learn and reflect.

There are so much power in quietness and relaxations. Creativity and talents will thrive and the mind becomes clearer than ever. Giving yourself enough time, focus, and some practice, you will find new directions and skills. And suddenly you can achieve something you previously thought were impossible.

Our societies have too much white noise and too many assumptions. Many are untruths, non-issues, false-assumptions, and impositions. The bible said, �As a man think in his heart, so he is�. If we fill out mind with what other people said or think, then we produce average results just like everyone else.

Instead, pick up some great books, meet with great people, and do great things, you can have more if you open up yourself to good things in life.

Focus on finding truth and wisdom. Practice detachment. Give yourself enough resource and quality time to develop your passions. These disciplines will lead you to true wealth and freedom. You will enjoy more happiness, more successes, and more fulfilling relationships.

As we go through life, there are grade school, high school, college, and then 9 to 5 jobs. (Apology for generalization, I do realize some of you are self-employed or already have businesses.) Have we ever second-guessed the systems we found ourselves in?

Escaping from the system and competitions that occupy you daily can open your eyes to new opportunities and better paths. I am not saying that you should quit your jobs, schools or anything dramatic now. But distancing yourself from the system help you see the system as it is, instead of what you used to believe it to be.

If you want to know how to vagabond or just periodically travel without scarifying schools or works, click here.

There are millions types of industries and businesses. They tend to focus only on what they are doing. Their experience is narrow and laser-focused. As a result, many hidden assets, successful techniques, and untapped resources are overlooked.

See, a simple marketing technique from industry A, or an outsourcing service that industry B is using, could multiply revenue to a hundred folds for company X in industry C, with almost no cost added.

And all it takes is simple study and observation. Or read some good books written by experts from industry A and B.

For example, most network marketing distributors (AKA Multi-level marketing) only use direct selling as their sole mean to make sales. Some even refuse to admit that they are doing sales. They insist that they are crusaders for great causes, not salesperson.

Recently, some mavericks invented something �new� that could turn their MLM business into automated moneymaking machine. Their �new� system does all the prospecting and pre-selling for them 24/7. The �new� system is 100% duplicable for any new recruits. Even the shy and awkward could succeed with such systems. No more cold or warm calls. No more hard selling to neighbors, families, friends, and the family dog.

Simply by mixing some old-fashioned salesmanship, traditional marketing techniques, small business knowledge, and Web marketing technique together. If you want to know more click here.

Sound easy isn�t it? Well, flush toiled was invented in 1775, but it was 1875 when people finally started equipping it with toilet papers.

Most businesses can�t see forest for the trees and overlook the obvious. They are too busy with their worn-out ways of doing things.

To avoid toiling your life away with unproductive works, you need to retreat from familiar environment such as the workplace. Click here for more detail.

As you are doing extensive travel, bring some books and a laptop with you. You might come up with great ideas to fast forward your financial freedom plan, starting a side business, or leapfrogging over your competitors.

People feel safe when they follow what everybody is doing. If an individual stay with a crowd for too long, he or she starts to identify with and conform to the crowd.

An individual might have a wise answer to a question, but if you put that person in a crowd that believe in a stupid answer, then self-doubt and urges to comply would creep into that individual.

Most herds are stupid. An individual could quickly avoid the cliff whereas the herd stampedes into it.

Herd people believe in walking the conventional path. If someone presents them with a quicker and better way, they would scoff at her because it isn�t popular.

No wonder Warren Buffet chooses to stay in Omaha instead of living anywhere closer to the Wall Street, New York.

Entities that could create the Herd Effect include governments, businesses, peer groups, the Wall Street, public schools, anyone charismatic� which tends to limit people with its own culture, philosophies, beliefs, and narrow thinking.

The glamour and frame that come with winning a competition could sometime make us irrational. Jokingly speaking, what would make people run for 42.195 km instead of DRIVING?

People train themselves with rigorous programs and diets, practicing month after month, only to exchange for a small chance to win a trophy.

Now I am not saying anything bad about marathon. It�s a great sport and everything, but my point is that competitions could also make us blind to the better ways of doing things, such as driving instead of running.

Sometime we compete for good reason such as participate in a marathon, and sometime it�s for stupid reasons such as
� Climbing up the corporation ladder
� Trying to beat the sales quotas with cold calls
� Collecting A�s from courses we don�t like
� Impressing the girls/guys that we won�t likely marry
� Buying expensive stuff to impress someone we don�t know
� Other�

We live many fears:
� Fear of not making it into college
� Fear of getting fired
� Fear of failing the exam
� Fear of poverty
� Fear of rejections
� Fear of being unloved
� Fear of not being recognized
� Fear of failures
� Fear of what other people think
� Others�

All these fears keep us in the psychological bondage of irrational competitions. We feel that we have to participate in competitions throughout life in order to survive.

Herd people compete with each other to find out who is the best at doing what everyone is doing. It�s akin to fighting for the position of alpha male in a wolf pact.

But I don�t care if someone is the mud-digging champion in a mud field where everyone is working hard at mud digging. I would just stick with using the heavy-duty tractor!

So lets step back from the mud-digging competitions or the herds, and start to reflect on better ways to approach your careers, educations, relationships, and everything.

There are no points in following the crowd and competing with them. It would only produce results that everyone is producing �such as working from 9 to 5 until they can�t work anymore and by that time has too little saving to support a 20-30 years of retirement.

Benefit #5: Finding life directions for yourself, your loved one, and your family

Traveling relaxes the mind and body. It creates rooms for new concepts, ideas and mindset.

Maybe you are a single individual who wants to find out the meaning of life. Or you feel that you and your spouse need to search for a sense of direction that is missing in your relationship. Or you are a parent who feels that your child need to learn something that public or private education can�t offer (or that they are exposed to negative influences there).

Traveling creates an exclusive environment to be alone, or just you and your spouse, or with family. There are many benefits to have such an exclusive time for yourselves or your family because you can have all the time and attention from your loved ones, which is impossible back home where life is too fragmented and too busy.

It is a great time to reorganize, re-prioritize, eliminate, strengthen, and heal.

There are meaningful projects that you could do together with your loved one, such as home-schooling your children, taking recreation or languages lessons, writing a book, working on a side business , planning for the future together, volunteering for charities and good works�etc

The closest thing to perfectly safe investment you can get is investing on yourselves. Nothing is certain in this life. Money, health, relationships, stock market, and governments are unpredictable. What is predicable is that �sh__t happens�, as written on Forest Gump�s T-shirt.

Truly diversified investment isn�t paper assets. Most investors don�t understand the paper assets they own. When the financial system breaks down, they will lose a lot of money. Most small investors lost money whenever the stock market crushes.

What really makes money despite of the market�s up or down is knowledge, which enables you to pick companies that make real profits, assets that produce stable cash flows, and to understand the market cycle so that risks are minimized.

Fortunately, most disasters are predicable and could be minimized or avoided if you educate yourselves and prepare beforehand.

Protecting yourself and your loved ones against the next market crush or political disaster isn�t someone else�s responsibility. The onerous is on you to educate yourself with respect to how money works, how history usually repeats itself, and how economy works.

Over the years, freedom in North America (U.S. and Canada) is gradually declining. Freedom of speech, freedom to homeschool your children, freedom to run businesses, freedom of conscience, freedom from forced vaccinations on your children, freedom to own guns, freedom of making profits, freedom of religions� These freedoms still exist but are diminishing due to relentless attacks from the self-appointed political correctness police and collectivists.

It�s about time to practice the art of escape just in case the History repeats itself, like when Hitler took over the democratic Germany in the 1930s, communism invaded and took half of Korea and all of Vietnam, and countless civil wars and political disasters that have been happening around the globe.

You don�t know when the governments/bosses/neighborhoods/economy turn bad, but when they do, make sure you have the choice to run and protect your loved ones.

Knowledge is power. It allows you to run away quickly even if your country suddenly become like the pre World War II Germany.

In order for you to do that, start planning on escaping from 9 to 5 now! Then you can study the art of nomadic living around the globe, educating yourself with the cultures, opportunities, and dreams you can find worldwide!

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