Modern Life on the Go

When you are hopping from country to country, one of your most important requirements is the cash to keep on going. After all, you don’t necessarily want to get stuck at any of your stops along the way! So, as a result, I talk a lot about the need for online income. A great way to develop this online income is with services that you can deliver anywhere that you have an internet connection. These days, that’s just about anywhere in the world.

A great choice for this it to become a tax preparer. As a tax preparer, you can help people file their taxes. They can send you their information either by email or fax (an electronic fax that just sends you an email of course), you can use the appropriate software, submit their return, and collect a few bucks. Of course, there is a catch. You have to pass the IRS exam first.

But, let’s be honest, it’s a government test. It’s not going to be that difficult to the smart crowd that has figured out how to live a global life. So study up, get some marketing out there, and file some tax returns from a beach in Fiji or from the resort hot tub in the Swiss Alps. After all, why not?

We are always in motion. Sometimes that motion can be local, sometimes national, sometimes international. I just booked some air travel for a 900 mile trip this weekend. These kinds of last minute flights are becoming more and more common. Fortunately, there are resources that make taking these trips easier and easier. Let’s say you are going to one of my favorite continents, Australia. You would naturally check the web for cheap flights and last minute accommodations.

After checking the web, it’s as simple as click, fill in your credit card information, and print (or not) boarding passes. Modern technology allows us to do all these things with ease. So you could be in Phoenix, Arizona today; Sydney, Australia tomorrow; Singapore the day after; St. Petersburg, Russia next; and back home all without needing to go to a counter anywhere and do a physical transaction. This is the power of life on the go today. Even 15 years ago, this would have been impossible. But the spread of network technology has allowed us to customize our lives the way we see fit to a very high degree.

And the best part is that living this way enables us to arbitrage income and expenses across disparate geographical regions. If you earn money online in US dollars, but spend them in Russian rubles, you will have amazing leverage to keep on living the lifestyle you want. All it requires is the cheap tickets to get there in the first place!

One of the issues with being a modern man on the go is that, despite your best intentions, you often accumulate possessions. Let’s be honest and call it what it is: crap you own. With all this crap you own, you end up needing a place to put it. When I bought a house after living in apartments for years, I finally thought that I would have space to put out all my crap. Little did I realize how *much* crap I had built up. It turns out that I, too, need a place to put my crap. The solution? Arrow Spacemaker Storage Cabinets.

Once you have garage cabinets installed, you will be able to organize and prioritize your crap. If you are on the go like I am, you want to create 3 categories: crap you need with you at all times, crap you want to have handy, and crap you need to throw out. The items that fall into the last category are things that you haven’t used in over 2 years. Even better, they might be things you haven’t even *thought* of in over 2 years. Get rid of that crap immediately!

The crap you want to have handy though, is a different story. These might be things like tools, books, and other resources that you don’t need on a day to day basis, but you definitely use somewhat frequently. Steel storage cabinets are a great place to put those items. The steel construction will keep them in good condition and secure from prying eyes and hands.

The crap you need with you at all times, obviously, should be kept with you at all times. Since there is a very low limit for what you can carry, there should be a minimal amount of crap for this category.

And that’s it! Follow these simple guidelines and you can keep your mobile lifestyle while keeping the necessities safe at the home base.

We have talked many times about our life on the go lifestyle here and how many times, if you are staying more than a few days, it is better to rent apartments or houses in the area instead of staying in a hotel. Basically an apartment or house allows you greater flexibility for less out of pocket cost while increasing your in-country experience. Staying at the Ritz Carlton in Glasgow is different than staying in an apartment.

Speaking of Glasgow, Ireland and Scotland are gorgeous in the spring and summer. As a modernist on the go, you can check out flats to rent Glasgow or flats to rent Edinburgh on your smartphone. Sometimes you can score last minute deals while you are in the air (or on the ferry) to your destinations. Worst case scenario, you look around and end up picking up some flats to rent Aberdeen.

You can search with different parameters to find a fit for your budget and your travel dates. From my brief perusal of some of the travel sites, it looks like lodgings are booking up well in advance right now. It might be worth your time to firm up your travel plans now so you won’t have to worry about it in the future. Hostels are OK for broke college students bumming around Europe for the summer, but we modernists on the go can do a fair sight better!

Skiing is a popular sport for modernists on the go, and if you are an avid skier, you have to try the Alps at least once in your life. I know, I know, it’s expensive, but there are ways around that for the tech savvy shopper: scour the internet for deals.

Looking to go skiing while protesting secret meetings of global elites? Look no further than picking up some Davos accommodation in the region. This area has enormous verticals for you dare devils out there. Absolutely must go skiing when everything else is closed? Slopes in the Zermatt accommodation area is the place for you. But if you are looking to get away from the hustle and bustle of the more tourist centered ski slopes, check out resorts in the Saas-Fee accommodation region.

After you’ve found your place to stay, pack your gear and get ready to go. The powder is deep year round, and hey, there’s the whole country of Switzerland to explore! Maybe open up a bank account with the non-American passport of yours. Check out the place where they make Swiss Army knives. Pick up some gold.

Whatever kind of mountain top adventure you are after, you can find it in the Swiss Alps.

Modern life on the go brings with it a host of new issues. How do we travel the world, live the lifestyle we dream of, and keep the money coming while we’re doing all that? The answer is online income.

If you have a business that runs either without you, or with you but anywhere in the world, then you have the potential to capture that income online. As long as you are in a place that has a bank or ATM, you can get access to that money. Pretty neat, right? But it’s not all roses. If your income is online, you need to set it up in such a way that your customers keep coming, and you keep getting paid. Enter the pay per click agency.

Pay per click is an advertising method by which you pay each time a web surfer clicks on your advertising campaign. This allows you to control and scale your advertising costs as your business grows and develops. As you make more and more money, you can reinvest that money to bring in more customers, which bring in more revenue, and the cycle repeats. Pretty soon you’ll be living that lifestyle that we talked about earlier.

On the flip side, you can also be a publisher of content and use that opportunity to advertise the pay per click ads. So if you have a blog that gets a lot of traffic, join such a network and put up ads. This is yet another stream of online income. If you can’t decide which way you want to go, as I always say, “Why choose? Do both!”

Guest post written by Emily Parks

Up until recently, all of the Broadway plays that I’ve ever seen have been super upbeat. But the latest time that I went to New York and saw a play, I opted for a more serious play, War Horse. I do enjoy happy musicals, but I just thought that it was about time that I saw something really serious that’s also critically acclaimed.

As I was looking online trying to find some ideas about what exactly I could find in regards to discount tickets for the show, I ran across the site http://hearingaids.miracle-ear.com/hearing-locations/nebraska/. Once I looked through it a little bit, I decided to go and get fitted with some hearing aids. I had been thinking about doing it for a while anyway, so I was glad to put that out of the way and get it over with.

I was pretty excited to go and see the play War Horse. I read so many great reviews on it and now they’re coming out with a movie, so I wanted to make sure that I went and saw the play before I was to go and see the movie.

Modern movers are always on the go. Here, there, and everywhere. Fortunately, these days it’s faster and easier to travel than ever before. There are more choices and more routes to wherever it is that you want to go.

Air travel, especially in the United States, has had its share of issues. With gas prices climbing, airlines having financial troubles, and the Transportation and Security Administration (TSA) groping oldsters, air travel is down. But there is an upside: the airlines that have really responded to customers’ demands have prospered. Southwest is a case in point. Southwest used to be, well, in the Southwest. But their “Low fares above all” approach has made Southwest the largest air carrier in the nation.

Southwest manages this through three main approaches. First, Southwest does not have assigned seating. It’s a first come, first serve system. This makes for quicker loading and unloading, which makes for less time spent at airports. It’s a win win situation for Southwest and customers alike. Second, Southwest doesn’t charge for checked bags. Charges for bags are extremely annoying to passengers. After all, they think, isn’t the plane already going there? The third way Southwest wins is that it does not charge for changing flights. The flight change fee is a classic rip off to the consumer. The cost for changing an itinerary before takes place is infinitesimal.

As a modernist on the go, you should be on the lookout for deals on your air travel. Even though Southwest might be the cheapest option for your travel, there is no reason to pay more than you have to. Make the power of the internet your friend. Look for a southwest airlines promo code online and save yourself potentially hundreds of dollars on your flights.

So where is it that you are headed? Some of my favorite destinations are in the East, including China, Japan, Australia, and New Zealand. Another popular set of destinations is to balance out your seasons. So if you are in the northern hemisphere, head to the southern hemisphere between September and March. Conversely, if you are in the southern hemisphere, head north between April and August. That way, you’ll catch the eternal summer.

But whatever you choose, pick the best airline with the most economical ticket prices. That way you have the most available to spend when you get there! So again, look for a southwest airlines promo code for extra savings.