Are you going to live before you die?
When I was a boy I thought I would do great things.
I thought I would make millions and be famous.
I thought I would be a leader of industry and travel the world.
I thought I would find glory.
I thought I would be so successful.
That I could teach other people how to do it.
The day would come when I could help millions.
I could help millions find their way to the top.
I thought I could make the world a better place.
I am not sure why young men want such glory.
Maybe it is to catch the most beautiful woman?
Maybe it was all just a youthful ego.
I even thought I would start a school called Success 101.
Where I would teach people what I had learned over the years.
I would travel the world and teach people how to live their dreams
I was never able to create the success of my dreams.
Decades passed and time never found me at the top of any game.
I started to think … Maybe I was just an average guy?
One day I would be great if I never gave up.
Tick-Tock, Tick-Tock, the clock never stops.
I was living life as an invisible man.
Other than an old Porsche in my late teens,
I lived in middle-class houses and drove middle-class cars.
I put my hours in and lived my unremarkable life.
I saved a little here and there and made a few investments.
I did okay, but there was nothing remarkable about my trajectory.
Time was turning me into an invisible man.
I never turned out to be that guy, that lives a remarkable life. I just kept putting in my time, holding onto empty dreams. I kept grinding away at my dreams hoping things would change.
If I was honest with myself, there was nothing truly remarkable about me. By age 47, I was still an invisible man, running out of time.
I didn’t think I could lie to myself for another 18 years.
I was not going to be rich, not famous, not even remarkable.
I wasn’t even sure I could get myself to grind away for 18 more years.
So I surrendered my dreams and started looking for another way.
Maybe my new path would also be unremarkable. But could I love it?
So I looked around in my life and asked, what do I love most?
I loved to travel, seeing new countries, and learning about new cultures.
One day I would be great if I never gave up.
Tick-Tock, Tick-Tock, the clock never stops.
I was living life as an invisible man.
Travel was the only thing that kept me grinding away all those years.
I thought I would get to see the world if I had enough money.
But without great success, world travel didn’t seem possible anymore.
Unremarkable people don’t travel the world, do they?
I never thought about working overseas.
I didn’t know people were working on laptops, traveling the world.
So I sat at my desk daydreaming.
How does an unremarkable man get to travel the world?
Would I ever be able to live before I died?
I didn’t want to wait for a social security check retirement.
I worried that my body would fail me in my late 60s and 70s.
I kept daydreaming about traveling the world while I was young.
One day my phone rang, and the caller asked:
Would you be willing to live and work in India for 2 years?
My mind said yes, but my lips said, “Possibly, tell me more.”
A few months later I was living in India.
I had every 7th week off and I was traveling the world.
My dreams had come true at age 47, as an unremarkable man.
One day I would be great if I never gave up.
Tick-Tock, Tick-Tock, the clock never stops.
I was living life as an invisible man.
Suddenly I was an unremarkable man, traveling the world at age 47.
Every 7th week off is 21 weeks per year, seeing the world.
I was still invisible but now I was seeing the world.
But one day I read a book called “The Four Hour Work Week.”
The book taught how to travel the world working on my laptop.
So I quit my job in India and start working part-time remotely.
So after 3 years in India, I was now traveling the world all year long.
My travels showed me places around the world,
Where I would not need as much money if I decided to retire early.
So, I decided to start teaching people about my favorite places to
Retire Early Cheap Around the world. People started to watch my videos
And read my reports and join my membership.
As I look back, at what happened since leaving the USA in 2007.
Instead of succeeding according to plans, I have failed my way to success.
I teach people how an unremarkable person lives his traveling dreams.
I am not rich, I am not famous. I am a failure in that sense.
My only true success is in teaching how an unremarkable man,
Can fail at life and still live their dreams.
One day I would be great if I never gave up.
Tick-Tock, Tick-Tock, the clock never stops.
I was living life as an invisible man.
Now I teach where to retire or live on much less.
I even teach people how to make money online, with their hobby.
The key to my success came through failure.
My school of life membership is called VagabondBuddha.com.
I teach people what I have learned about living overseas on less.
I travel the world now and I teach people how to live their dreams
I never got rich as I had hoped.
I have no story of multi-millions that I can tell you or teach.
But not everyone finds the dreams of their youth.
I will never be rich, not famous, and maybe never truly remarkable.
But I didn’t grind away at that desk for 18 more years.
I surrendered my dreams and found another way.
There are no guarantees in life, not even my path is guaranteed.
Your unremarkable failure may not be as glorious as mine, but what if it is?
I am not as invisible as I used to be. Maybe you know me.
If you haven’t found the dreams of your youth.
Maybe it is time to fail your way to success?
Maybe there is enough time left to live a little before you die.
One day I would be great if I never gave up.
Tick-Tock, Tick-Tock, the clock never stops.
I was living life as an invisible man.
Since leaving the USA in 2007 and I have lived in or visited 67 countries.
The beautiful woman in the videos next to me is Qiang.
She was a runway model in Malaysia when I met her in 2016.
I am 61 years old now and Qiang is 36 years old.
We have slowly traveled the world together since 2017.
We don’t buy round-trip tickets, we move forward throughout the world.
I teach people how to avoid my mistakes and save time and money.
I also teach money, banking, and real estate tricks.
I teach how I found love in paradise.
My membership costs $9 per month or $99 lifetime. Qiang teaches people about food and culture on her Youtube Channel, Hobo Ventures.
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One day I would be great if I never gave up.
Tick-Tock, Tick-Tock, the clock never stops.
I was living life as an invisible man.