Love this post from my dear friend Savannah Peterson, I’ve thought about this long and hard. My ability to connect dots everywhere, globally is based on how I use and craft my online (and offline) world. I know what I want and then figure out how to get it — that is not bratty, or arrogant, its just focused.
I started using Instagram stories recently as a way of sharing more of a day in my life as many people think that my constant travel leads to not working which is inherently false, I work all the time, but it doesn’t feel like work. I value hard work, health and success just like everyone else, but how I go about getting it just looks a little bit different. I’ve now seen value in people understanding more about when and where I’m working which changes daily and the types of activities I do offline and online to grow my current program of works. Before you saw the frolicking in lavender fields in France, but what you didn’t see was the trailing in Airbnb experiences to build my blog and audience to travel more, the 3 hours of calls and webinars I did between 11pm — 2am, the range of emails I fire through in ubers on my way to places to have fun, and the weekends I spend scheduling social media, blogs and events to release automatically months in advance of when I need them; and the hours that I spend on platforms figuring out how they work, why they work and how I can use them to be better at what I do and help our community more.
Automation and critical thinking is the name of my game, allowing me to do more of the fun stuff which I like to call being a professional dot connector.
Where you make friends in person or by joining clubs, or going to college, I decided to be different and do what works for me. I did my degree online, and decided to travel the world to see it, so that I could understand it and myself more; this lead to me remote working so that I could pay my way and travel and study, instead of getting loans or taking credit and going back to a job I figured out how to take my job with me, by creating one and learning the skills.. I make friends on twitter, linkedin and more recently instagram as well as in person, those people I actively visit all over the world as far reaching as Kenya to Buenos Aires, we found each other over a shared love of our passions and conversation whether that is long form, how we portray an image with a quirky caption or in 140 characters.
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Food for thought.

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