My Lifestyle Design

The purpose of my blog is to chronicle my travels and my lifestyle in the hope that it will inspire other people to realise how easy it is to live the life you want to live right now.

Bungee at Victoria falls, border of Zimbabwe/Zambia

I know it’s scary to leave the secure life we know behind us but if we truly want to live our dreams we have to ignore what people think we should be doing and actually do what we dream to do. That is the essence of Lifestyle Design. Through this, since graduating from university in 2006, I have :

Lived in 6 different countries in 4 different continents

Traveled extensively through over 50 countries

Climbed Kilimanjaro

Paraglided in the Himalayas

Cage dived with great white sharks

Trekked mountain gorillas in Rwanda

Created an online income to become location independent

Skydived in Australia

Commenced and paid for my Masters

Ridden camels through the Thar desert on the India/Pakistani border

Presented a Thai Travel TV Show in Asia

Watched Usain bolt break the world record at the Beijing Olympics (China, 2008)

Hot-air ‘balloned’ over the Nile for sunrise

Hiked to Mount Everest Base Camp

Studied and completed my Cambridge university TEFL English teaching qualification

Attended a World Cup Final (Johannesburg, South Africa 2010)

Stayed in the slums of Bangladesh

Eaten fugu (the infamous, expensive deadly blowfish) in Japan

Scubadived in the great barrier reef

Taken political tours in Belfast

Bungeed at Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe

Climbed Mount Kinabalu, Borneo

‘Worked’ in USA, Korea, Australia and Thailand

Studied in Thailand and Malaysia

Learned another language (x 2)

Taken a Chinese cargo boat the length of the Mekong river through Burma to China

Gambled too much in Las Vegas

Wandered alone through the pyramids in Sudan

Partied in Beirut

Climbed the CN tower in Toronto

Set-up a company to help other people change their lives

Drunk snake’s blood in Taiwan

Got blessed by monks on a train to Mandalaay, Burma

Made more friends than I can count

White-water rafted, go-karted, rock climbed, paintballed and been sightseeing in endless countries etc etc etc etc..

Top of Kilimanjaro

Honestly, this is not any attempt at bragging because I am nothing special, just an average guy who wanted to live his life to the fullest imaginable degree. So I have chosen to do that and, if you really want, so can you.

Paragliding in the Himalayas

So forget about keeping up with the Jones’, forget about choosing the charcoal-grey tie ahead of the night-black one, forget about being micromanaged, forget about clicking through other peoples facebook photos and feeling jealous, forget about the feeling on a sunday night when you don’t want to fall asleep because when you wake you’re off to work again. Live the life you want before it’s gone right past you.