{"id":1536,"date":"2012-04-25T18:16:51","date_gmt":"2012-04-25T17:16:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.danielebesana.com\/blog\/?p=1536"},"modified":"2014-06-09T11:34:59","modified_gmt":"2014-06-09T10:34:59","slug":"connecting-dots-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielebesana.com\/blog\/life\/connecting-dots-work","title":{"rendered":"Connecting the dots &#8211; from Working Hard to Hardly Working"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Looking backwards in the last 2,5 years I can now\u00a0<strong>connect the dots<\/strong>,\u00a0like Steve Jobs had explain in his\u00a0renowned\u00a0Stanford speech (and no, I&#8217;m not an i* fan).<br \/>\nHere the video with the excerpt, it&#8217;s worth spending the 26 seconds:<br \/>\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/T-oW1U3BRHM\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I can now clearly see the path I followed.<\/p>\n<h2><!--more--><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>September 2009 &#8211; Dakhla, Marocco<\/h2>\n<p>Between the Sahara desert and the blue lagoon of Dakhla, I&#8217;m reading the classic book\u00a0<a title=\"4 hours work week\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0307465357\/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=dbblog-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0307465357\" target=\"_blank\">4 Hours Work Week from Tim Ferriss<\/a>\u00a0(forever thankful to Emilio for giving me that book!). This book challenges the normal assumptions about work and lifestyle and shows new possibilities.<br \/>\n&#8220;The Book&#8221; is great but I&#8217;m skeptical. I think it has good ideas but everyone has to\u00a0elaborate, evaluate and explore to see if they can work for\u00a0themselves.<br \/>\nReading this book wasn&#8217;t enough, but was the first of a series of actions towards freedom.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>November 2009 &#8211; Amsterdam, Netherlands<\/h2>\n<p>I resume my old passion for websites and following a set of very well done online videos about Internet Marketing I launch the blog\u00a0<a title=\"Percussion Conga Blog\" href=\"https:\/\/www.percussionconga.com\" target=\"_blank\">Percussion Conga<\/a>,\u00a0my first marketing experiment\u00a0talking about <a title=\"Conga Drums\" href=\"https:\/\/www.percussionconga.com\" target=\"_blank\">conga drums<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>March 2010 &#8211; online<\/h2>\n<p>Someone buys\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B000JGG9LE\/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=dbblog-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=B000JGG9LE\">Mel Bay Art of Bongo Drumming<\/a>\u00a0DVD and I make my first (of few) dollar with my experiment.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m 100 times more happy with this dollar than with the salary from my day job. It&#8217;s the proof that<strong> the system WORKS<\/strong>&#8230; it&#8217;s just a matter of order of magnitude \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>May 2010 &#8211; Amsterdam, Netherlands<\/h2>\n<p>I change role and move to the Consultant department of the company. In the months after both personal and professional life deeply change.<\/p>\n<p>I have to quit <a title=\"eStilo dance\" href=\"https:\/\/estilo-dance.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">eStilo<\/a>, the dancing group I was performing with, as an intense period of (very) frequent travels begins.<br \/>\nEurope but also Middle East, I&#8217;m often home only on weekends, or not at all. The good thing is that I love it! It&#8217;s new, challenging, exciting.<br \/>\nAnother taxi, another flight, another city, another hotel.<br \/>\nIt gave me lots of time with myself, for reading, writing, thinking (<strong>&#8220;What could be more stimulating than thinking about your own life?&#8221; said\u00a0<a title=\"How I found freedom in an unfree World\" href=\"https:\/\/www.danielebesana.com\/blog\/books\/recommended-book-how-i-found-freedom-in-an-unfree-world-harry-browne\" target=\"_blank\">Harry Browne<\/a><\/strong>) and completely free me from the office life. Yes, &#8216;cause when not traveling, I&#8217;m working from home which I really enjoy.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>September 2010 &#8211; All around<\/h2>\n<p>I read the book\u00a0<a title=\"Your Money or your life\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0143115766\/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=dbblog-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0143115766\" target=\"_blank\">Your Money or Your Life<\/a>\u00a0from\u00a0Vicki Robin and Joe Dominguez. This book really changed my relation with money, and open my eyes on personal finance and financial independence.<br \/>\nThe\u00a0<em>really powerful\u00a0<\/em>lessons are that spending more is\u00a0<strong>not<\/strong>\u00a0synonymous of living better and happier, and that financial calculations must be based on how much you <em>spend<\/em>, not on how much you <em>make<\/em>.<br \/>\nEnters the word <em>frugal<\/em>\u00a0in my\u00a0dictionary.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>October 2010 &#8211; Fuerteventura, Spain<\/h2>\n<p>I read the crazy book\u00a0<a title=\"Early Retirement Extreme\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/145360121X\/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=dbblog-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=145360121X\" target=\"_blank\">Early Retirement Extreme<\/a>\u00a0by Jacob Fisker. It was an eye-opener about becoming financially independent and achieving early retirement through an (extreme!) frugal lifestyle.<br \/>\nThe lesson I got from this book is not how to save money by making your own soap, but rather how to work out the math for financial independence.<br \/>\nThis is why I laugh when people tell me we need 4.000.000 euro to retire.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>December 2010 &#8211; Albiate, Italy<\/h2>\n<p>I enjoy so much being a frequent traveler (and travelling light) that during the Christmas lunch with my family and relatives I make an important and unexpected announcement.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not getting married like the aunts were expecting, but instead I announce the decision to take 3 months off work in 2011 to travel South America.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s basically what Tim Ferriss calls a &#8220;<a title=\"Mini Retirement Article\" href=\"https:\/\/www.getrichslowly.org\/blog\/2008\/06\/03\/how-to-take-a-mini-retirement-tips-and-tricks-from-timothy-ferriss\/\" target=\"_blank\">mini-retirement<\/a>&#8221; &#8211; I spare you the reactions from the aunts.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>June\/August 2011 &#8211; Panama &amp; Colombia<\/h2>\n<p><a class=\"thickbox\" title=\"IMG_2330.jpg\" href=\"https:\/\/lh3.ggpht.com\/-wxv4GJtaFow\/Tr0XO2ZylhI\/AAAAAAAAD9I\/syZbqGHcg0U\/IMG_2330.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[1536]\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"IMG_2330.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.ggpht.com\/-wxv4GJtaFow\/Tr0XO2ZylhI\/AAAAAAAAD9I\/syZbqGHcg0U\/s150-c\/IMG_2330.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_2330.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> I have the time of my life\u00a0<a title=\"Vagabonding - Rolf Potts\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0812992180\/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=dbblog-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0812992180\" target=\"_blank\">Vagabonding around (another great book, from Rolf Potts)<\/a>.<br \/>\nIn this mini-retirement <a title=\"Experiment #5: 3 months of vagabonding\" href=\"https:\/\/www.danielebesana.com\/blog\/life\/experiment-5-3-months-of-vagabonding\" target=\"_blank\">I had learnt a lot.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Especially, I came back with a clearer idea about what I want in my future: more freedom, more independence, more experiences And about how to get it: go back to my online businesses experiments I had abandoned.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>October 2011 &#8211; Berlin, Germany<\/h2>\n<p>While guest of a friend for the Berlin Salsa Festival, I read on my BlackBerry a post called\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nerdynomad.com\/2011\/09\/14\/i-just-bought-my-first-website\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">I Just Bought My First Website<\/a>.<br \/>\nI realize that buying an already established website can be a great idea to become an Internet Investor.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>December 2011 &#8211; Amsterdam, Netherlands<\/h2>\n<p>I&#8217;m in the game, with a website about\u00a0<a title=\"Got websites\" href=\"https:\/\/www.danielebesana.com\/blog\/personal-challange\/i-got-websites\" target=\"_blank\">job opportunities in M\u00e9xico, Colombia and Per\u00fa<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>January\/March 2012<\/h2>\n<p>I had to take care of my knee to fix a broken ligament. In the long days and evenings at home I spend time on my websites and damn, I love it! It&#8217;s creative, it&#8217;s challenging, it&#8217;s fun and I have a lot to learn.<br \/>\n<strong>Me like it!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>February 2012<\/h2>\n<p>I expand my online activities with another job board dedicated to <a title=\"NGO Jobs, international development aid job board\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aidboard.com\" target=\"_blank\">International Development Aid and NGOs careers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>March 2012<\/h2>\n<p>I just feel a great energy working on my websites and I want to know more and more.<br \/>\nI decide to give a real go in this new World and see where I can go: my finances are in good order, I can live in a cheap place if I want and I have no commitments.<br \/>\nThe first day of Spring 2012 I write my resignation letter.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>April 2012<\/h2>\n<p>I&#8217;m leaving the company, I talk with more and more people about my resignation and my unclear plans.<br \/>\nI get very interesting reactions, ranging from <em>&#8220;I wish I could do that!&#8221;<\/em> to <em>&#8220;don&#8217;t do it! there&#8217;s recession!&#8221; <\/em>or <em>&#8220;you&#8217;ll eat my garbage&#8221; <\/em>or again <em>&#8220;good that you can try!&#8221;<\/em>.<br \/>\nI let everyone talk and I listen. I listen to <strong>their <\/strong>fear, and <strong>their<\/strong>\u00a0concern.<\/p>\n<p><strong>I feel I don&#8217;t have to convince or even less inspire anyone.<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>I just do what I love and I believe every free person should do the same.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In few days a new chapter of my life will open, I&#8217;ll write to share how the first weeks will be and to elaborate about <em>freedom<\/em>, <em>personal finance <\/em>or maybe\u00a0<em>mini-retirements.<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Thanks for reading and comments are welcome!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.danielebesana.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/queensday.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[1536]\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1535\" title=\"queensday\" src=\"https:\/\/www.danielebesana.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/queensday.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"372\" height=\"491\" srcset=\"https:\/\/danielebesana.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/queensday.jpg 372w, https:\/\/danielebesana.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/queensday-227x300.jpg 227w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 372px) 100vw, 372px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"kk-star-ratings kksr-auto kksr-align-left kksr-valign-bottom\"\n    data-payload='{&quot;align&quot;:&quot;left&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:&quot;1536&quot;,&quot;slug&quot;:&quot;default&quot;,&quot;valign&quot;:&quot;bottom&quot;,&quot;ignore&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;reference&quot;:&quot;auto&quot;,&quot;class&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;count&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;legendonly&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;readonly&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;score&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;starsonly&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;best&quot;:&quot;5&quot;,&quot;gap&quot;:&quot;5&quot;,&quot;greet&quot;:&quot;Rate this post&quot;,&quot;legend&quot;:&quot;0\\\/5 - (0 votes)&quot;,&quot;size&quot;:&quot;24&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Connecting the dots - from Working Hard to Hardly Working&quot;,&quot;width&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;_legend&quot;:&quot;{score}\\\/{best} - ({count} {votes})&quot;,&quot;font_factor&quot;:&quot;1.25&quot;}'>\n            \n<div class=\"kksr-stars\">\n    \n<div class=\"kksr-stars-inactive\">\n            <div class=\"kksr-star\" data-star=\"1\" style=\"padding-right: 5px\">\n            \n\n<div class=\"kksr-icon\" style=\"width: 24px; height: 24px;\"><\/div>\n        <\/div>\n            <div class=\"kksr-star\" data-star=\"2\" style=\"padding-right: 5px\">\n            \n\n<div class=\"kksr-icon\" style=\"width: 24px; height: 24px;\"><\/div>\n        <\/div>\n            <div class=\"kksr-star\" data-star=\"3\" style=\"padding-right: 5px\">\n            \n\n<div class=\"kksr-icon\" style=\"width: 24px; height: 24px;\"><\/div>\n        <\/div>\n            <div class=\"kksr-star\" data-star=\"4\" style=\"padding-right: 5px\">\n            \n\n<div class=\"kksr-icon\" style=\"width: 24px; height: 24px;\"><\/div>\n        <\/div>\n            <div class=\"kksr-star\" data-star=\"5\" style=\"padding-right: 5px\">\n            \n\n<div class=\"kksr-icon\" style=\"width: 24px; height: 24px;\"><\/div>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n<div class=\"kksr-stars-active\" style=\"width: 0px;\">\n            <div class=\"kksr-star\" style=\"padding-right: 5px\">\n            \n\n<div class=\"kksr-icon\" style=\"width: 24px; height: 24px;\"><\/div>\n        <\/div>\n            <div class=\"kksr-star\" style=\"padding-right: 5px\">\n            \n\n<div class=\"kksr-icon\" style=\"width: 24px; height: 24px;\"><\/div>\n        <\/div>\n            <div class=\"kksr-star\" style=\"padding-right: 5px\">\n            \n\n<div class=\"kksr-icon\" style=\"width: 24px; height: 24px;\"><\/div>\n        <\/div>\n            <div class=\"kksr-star\" style=\"padding-right: 5px\">\n            \n\n<div class=\"kksr-icon\" style=\"width: 24px; height: 24px;\"><\/div>\n        <\/div>\n            <div class=\"kksr-star\" style=\"padding-right: 5px\">\n            \n\n<div class=\"kksr-icon\" style=\"width: 24px; height: 24px;\"><\/div>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n                \n\n<div class=\"kksr-legend\" style=\"font-size: 19.2px;\">\n            <span class=\"kksr-muted\">Rate this post<\/span>\n    <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looking backwards in the last 2,5 years I can now\u00a0connect the dots,\u00a0like Steve Jobs had explain in his\u00a0renowned\u00a0Stanford speech (and no, I&#8217;m not an i* fan). 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