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Happy Sunday!

I’m not sure where the weeks are going at the moment, but I cannot believe it was 6 months ago I posted this on Facebook;

And now there’s only 6 days to go!

More on that below, first…

In this weeks Working Traveller;

1. Travel Trivia - a temple built from beer bottles - cheers! 🍻

2. Side Hustle Highlight - what Seth Godin would do if he were starting again today, 28 odd job apps, & faceless videos

3. Working Traveller News (aka me) - I’m scared!

4. Nomad News - keep your seatbelts on and travelling the world in your 60’s & 70’s

5. Product Recommendation - looking to leverage LinkedIn?

6. Mindset Matters - how to be great

7. That’s all folks

Read time: 5 minutes

Travel Trivia

In which country can you visit a unique temple that has been built entirely out of beer bottles, using over 1.5 million empties in its construction?

(hint - I live here (not for much longer!) - answer at the bottom of the newsletter)

Side Hustle Highlight

What Seth Godin Would Do If He Were Starting Over Today, 28 Odd Job Apps to Make Some Extra Dosh, & 7 Faceless Video Ideas

I always enjoy an interview with Seth Godin and as usual he throws in a couple of game changing gems (listen at 19.48 minutes), but the answer Seth gives to the question posed to him at the 41 minute mark is super important in today’s noisy online world. It’s the strategy Seth would take if he were starting all over again today.

Love this post from Nick Loper at Side Hustle Nation. If you’re saving for your round the world trip and are looking for some side jobs to make an extra few hundred dollars each week, here’s a list of odd job apps to help. (Quite a few focus primarily on the US, but keep reading, there are plenty of global online opportunities also).

Lastly, if like me you’ve gone off the thought of recording yourself on video as you’ve gotten older, then faceless videos are the way to go! Here’s a post from Plann with 7 different faceless video ideas including examples.

Working Traveller News

I’m Scared!

I can’t believe the time has arrived. By the time I send you next weeks email I will be a fully fledged, perpetually travelling, digital nomad, with no fixed abode.

It feels like it’s been a long time coming, but also that time has passed in a flash and it’s suddenly Nomad Day! (Time is a weird and wonderful illusion).

On Friday our daughter headed off on her grad trip with friends, going to Singapore, then Boracay in the Philippines for a couple of weeks.

In the meantime we’ve been packing up the house, donating, selling and giving away clothes and ‘stuff’, leaving us with just 3 suitcases (and a couple of memory boxes a friend is storing for us).

In 6 days from sending this email we will hand over Buddy to his new family 🥲 and head up to a hotel in Khao Lak for 10 days to start our adventure.

It’s all very exciting (tinged with sadness), but I never expected to feel scared, or probably a better word is apprehensive.

I’ve been looking forward to and planning our nomad life for so long, but now it’s here I’m suddenly realising that I’ve got into quite a nice routine living here in Phuket and now I’m going to be moving massively out of my comfort zone!

That’s ok though. The words of my friend Nikki (who’s an extreme sports lover) keep ringing in my ear;

‘We don’t get old and stop doing stuff Jo’ she says, ‘we stop doing stuff and get old’.

And so onwards and upwards! Onto the next great adventure.

I look forward to updating you from the pool in Khao Lak next week! 😂😎

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Nomad News

Keep Your Seatbelt On at All Times!

As you’re no doubt aware this past week a Singapore Airlines flight heading from London to Singapore hit an air pocket which caused such severe turbulence one passenger died and several others are in a critical condition. An interview that caught my attention was with an aviation expert who said that with the current rate of climate change, he fully expects there to be further incidences of ‘clear air turbulence’. In other words turbulence pilots cannot detect in advance.

I realise that this particular incident is a one in a million event, but it’s better to be safe than sorry! I’ll certainly be keeping my seatbelt on throughout all my future flights.

On a lighter note I love this story of a couple in their 60’s and 70’s who sold their house to travel the world;

Course Recommendation

Want to Leverage LinkedIn’s Phenomenal Organic Growth?

I’m about to start posting on LinkedIn. I’ve dabbled in the past but have never really taken the platform seriously. However, I’ve read too many great things about it in the last year or so, it’s time to test it for myself!

To learn how to use it properly I invested in a course by a man who’s had phenomenal success on the platform, growing a solopreneur business to over $5million in revenue, simply by posting valuable content, building an email list and selling great courses.

And his course didn’t disappoint!

Justin Welsh's LinkedIn Content Operating System is a must-have for mastering content creation. Tailored for LinkedIn but, to be honest, relevant for any text-based platform, he offers copywriting expertise and proven content systems that anyone of any age and experience level can follow.

As a student of the course, I highly recommend it if you’re looking to craft compelling copy and elevate your content strategy.

In the meantime, please connect with me on LinkedIn and look out for my posts!

Mindset Matters

How to Be Great!

I read this in a newsletter from James Clear (Atomic Habits) and am passing it on as it’s such great advice;

Sociology professor Daniel Chambliss, who spent years researching the qualities of elite swimmers, on what creates excellence: 
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"Excellence is mundane. Superlative performance is really a confluence of dozens of small skills or activities, each one learned or stumbled upon, which have been carefully drilled into habit and then are fitted together in a synthesized whole. There is nothing extraordinary or superhuman in any one of those actions; only the fact that they are done consistently and correctly, and all together, produce excellence. 

When a swimmer learns a proper flip turn in the freestyle races, she will swim the race a bit faster; then a streamlined push off from the wall, with the arms squeezed together over the head, and a little faster; then how to place the hands in the water so no air is cupped in them; then how to lift them over the water; then how to lift weights to properly build strength, and how to eat the right foods, and to wear the best suits for racing, and on and on. 

Each of those tasks seems small in itself, but each allows the athlete to swim a bit faster. And having learned and consistently practiced all of them together, and many more besides, the swimmer may compete in the Olympic Games... the little things really do count." 

Source: The Mundanity of Excellence 

Question to consider…

What small habit could you start building on consistently from today that would bring you closer to achieving your big goals?

Travel Trivia Answer

Thailand!

If you guessed Thailand's Wat Pa Maha Chedi Kaew, also known as the "Temple of a Million Bottles," you'd be correct!

Located in the Sisaket province, this extraordinary temple complex features a main temple, crematorium, and several smaller shrines, all built using beer bottles. The green Heineken and brown Chang beer bottles create a stunning mosaic effect, reflecting light and creating a unique, colorful atmosphere.

The monks began collecting bottles in 1984 to reduce litter and promote recycling, and the result is an eco-friendly architectural marvel that attracts visitors from around the world.

I haven’t been to that part of Thailand as yet, but Ubon Ratchathani which is just beyond Sisaket (pronounced - See Saa Ket) is on my list, so we will be back Thailand! 😁

That’s All Folks!

That’s it from me this week. I hope it’s been useful!

In the meantime, make sure to come and connect on the FB Page, have a fabulous week, live your best life and as always get out there and make it happen!

Jo 😊 

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