Motivational Monday: How Many Hits Do You Need to Make Money from Your Blog?
Everyday you hear about some new blogger cashing in on their website, press trips around the world, free flatscreen tvs or a new pair of shoes sent to their house. How do they do it? How can I do it? [...]Read More..
Scuba Diving at the Great Barrier Reef, Cairns
A frequent feature on people’s bucket lists the world over, scuba diving at one of the natural wonders of the world, the Great Barrier Reef, on Australia’s East Coast. This remains my one and only scuba diving experience, and it [...]Read More..
Motivational Monday: How Much Money Can A Travel Blog Make? My Story
When I first started blogging about my travels 2 years ago or so I had read about a couple of people making money from their travel blogs. “No way, that can be true”, I thought it was another example of [...]Read More..
Motivational Monday: Don’t Be Afraid to Ask
I’m currently writing this on a train from Beijing to Ulaan Baator, Mongolia on the first leg of the Trans Siberian Express. I’m in a 4 bed carriage with 2 guys that are fast becoming close friends of mine, I [...]Read More..
Motivational Monday: Living with Passion
An Irish travel buddy, Gerard Darragh, of mine was sitting on a bus beside me this week in China and we were talking about life. He recollected a story about how the Romans were the first people to use obituaries [...]Read More..
Teaching at English Camps in Asia – FAQs
I have spoken about English camps in Asia briefly before but I wanted to go into a big more detail considering the fact that I’ve just finished a 3 week camp in South Korea in January. I just had one of the [...]Read More..
Motivational Monday: Jealousy isn’t all bad
It’s easy to be jealous of someone who travels around the world, of someone who doesn’t put in the hard corporate yards, of someone with the handsome/beautiful partner, but jealousy is a weak emotion, so acknowledge that and transform it. [...]Read More..
Working Holiday Visa in Australia
Having spent over a year in Australia myself, I really wanted to explain in detail how the working holiday visa in Australia works. It’s a great opportunity for people to explore Australia in depth and if you’ve got no cash, [...]Read More..
Motivational Monday: Dispelling Myths
We should all embrace lifestyle design, in our own way. We can do what we truly want in life, we just have to believe it. I just want to remove some barriers that a lot of people feel hold them [...]Read More..
Motivational Monday: Tomorrow is Promised to No One
When did the world become so obsessed with planning? Finance plans, pension schemes, mortgages. It used to be house and cars on long term finance plans, now it’s designer jeans and watches. Keeping up with the Jones is not the [...]Read More..
Motivational Monday: Make Money from Your Travel Blog
I’ve wanted to share this concept with the travel blogging community, and my readership, as a way to motivate other would-be travelers and travel bloggers to get out there and do it and to show that it really is possible. [...]Read More..
Motivational Monday: Don’t Miss Your Opportunity
It’s Monday again and the weekly grind may be kicking in round about now but it doesn’t have to, not if you really want your life to be something different, something exciting, something fun. It’s scary but it’s possible. How [...]Read More..
MOTIVATIONAL MONDAY: It’s All About The People
Sorry for being a couple of days late with this – I was stuck on Koh Chang (a beautiful Thai island) for a couple of days longer than expected, I had a great time with some cool people and it [...]Read More..
MOTIVATIONAL MONDAY: You’re Never As Young As You Are Tonight
“Do it while you’re young”, “Youth is wasted on the young”, “You’re only young once” – same old clichés, same old story. It’s true that youth is an awesome thing but it’s all relative. As a kid I thought I’d [...]Read More..
Live your life, take it all and don’t feel guilty for it
Life is meant to be lived, it’s meant to be enjoyed and appreciated. It’s not supposed to be taken for granted, and it should never be wasted. It’s a gift, one that we should cherish every day. The best thing [...]Read More..
Inspiring Travel Quotes
Inspiration can come in many forms, but sometimes a little nudge in the right direction is all you need. So if you’re waiting around for something to happen, stop – go and grab it, do it now. If you need [...]Read More..
Are You Successful? Is it me or do we have it all wrong?!
Was does it take to be successful? Do you deem yourself successful? Presumably the opposite of success is failure and everybody actively seeks to avoid that – but what is success? As I continue to gallivant around the globe, visit [...]Read More..
Is travel harmful to my career prospects?
People often email me and share their concerns about going traveling, which is entirely understandable – I did exactly the same thing before I set off in 2006. A common concern from Generation ‘Y’ers, whether directly out of school/university or [...]Read More..
What is Lifestyle Design?
I remember growing up and people saying to me that your school days are the best days of your life so make the most of them. This scared me. Then, at university, even more people told me that your university [...]Read More..
Teaching on English Camps
Moving to a new country to teach English is a daunting process on many accounts – culture shock, new industry to work in, the logistics involved in setting yourself up in a new country – all of these things are [...]Read More..
Is Long-Term Travel Selfish?
As I sit in the airport waiting for yet another jaunt to Asia I got to thinking about the ethics behind long-term travel and lifestyle design in general. I’ve been on the go pretty much since summer 2006 and since [...]Read More..
New Year Resolutions That Will Improve Your Life
Another year has come and gone – I hope we can all look back on 2010 with a smile on our faces. If not then this year can be different, will be different. This can be the year where we [...]Read More..
The Benefits of Studying Abroad
I have just started my Masters in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia this week (dec 2010) so studying is on my mind. Moving to a new country and getting immersed in education has really got me feeling positive so I thought therefore, [...]Read More..
What is a TEFL course exactly?!
So you want to teach English overseas, you want to travel the world while you work, you want to live in far flung and exotic countries, you want to enhance your CV and learn a language, you want to have [...]Read More..
You know you’ve been traveling too long when…
When you’ve been on the road longer than you remember, sometimes you forget what the ‘real world’ is like. If the following statements apply to you then you, like me, have gone past the point of no return! You think [...]Read More..
7 Tips for working at American summer camps
OK, so having worked at 3 summer camps in America over the years and having unforgettable times, meeting unforgettable people and seeing unforgettable things – I want to impart onto you some of the hard earned knowledge I’ve accumulated over [...]Read More..
16 FAQ about Teaching English Overseas
I have been teaching English around Asia for a while now and am currently studying part-time in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia to get my Masters in the field so I’ve had a bash at thinking about all the questions I had when [...]Read More..
JetSetCitizen Interview: Long-term traveling questions
Following up my interview last week about teaching English in Thailand I was asked by another website to answer a few questions about long-term backpacking, how I have managed to stay on the road so long, what I have done [...]Read More..
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