Lifestyle Design – What is it and what does it mean to me?
The term lifestyle design was first introduced to me by Timothy Ferris at the The 4-Hour work Week
Basically stated lifestyle design is living your life in a way that you want to. Typically you are free from a job and you are able to enjoy things in life that most people are not able to do before retirement. Timothy Ferris uses a technique he calls “mini retirements”. So this brings up the tricky part of the lifestyle design
“Work is a must, it is good, healthy, and it provides me with income to do the things that I want to do. Jobs only take my time away and cause me to miss out on opportunities that I would otherwise be able to take.”
I may not be describing it very well but the The 4-Hour work Week does an excellent job so go get a copy.
Chang Hong Kung-Fu Exhibition
Being deported from Taiwan was probably the best thing that ever happened to me. As my wife keeps telling me it was my karma. Just before we took teaching jobs over there I was ready to pull the trigger and break away from the traditional job setting. But I was not quite there with my independent income so I took the job over there. Karma would just not let me stay, I had a different destiny. That destiny is not just to live a lifestyle that I control but to teach and coach others how to live a lifestyle that they want and can control also.
While learning Kung-Fu from a true Kung-Fu (or more accurately Wu-Su) Grand Master it really made me realize that life is all about real experiences. It is my time to do this now. I hope that you can make the journey with me.
