I’m sorry, I don’t know where it is or how it looks. If you were looking for answers you might want to go somewhere else. If you find it, please let me know. Until then, I’m building my own road, brick by brick.

Since I had the clairvoyance a couple of days ago, it seems my subconscious mind is already gearing up to solve the problem and help me reach my goal. I had sudden surges of inspiration and wrote two pretty well received posts on LinkedIn, something I’ve never done before. I contacted a previous colleague to talk about the potential for us both to create a passive income stream through a skillset I’ve acquired and grown implicitly with my current role. I have started looking at employing remote workers for specific tasks in my team at work.

All these things came spontaneously, like a part of my brain suddenly got activated once I realized and decided that reaching geographical independence is my next step and challenge in life. I have a purpose now, a dream, and with it came a bucket of energy I haven’t felt since I decided to emigrate from my home country, in pursuit of being able to more intensely play my then favorite sport.

I have no clue what I need to do to reach my goal. But I live by the creed:

Act, adjust, achieve. Reach.

And it has helped me so far.

I’m starting to see what short and medium term goals I want to achieve to make this happen. Short term goals seem to surface as the following; online presence and getting back in touch with development.

An Online presence is born

In order to provide potential customers with the feeling of safety, I need to start building an online presence that serves my purpose. I have started on LinkedIn, but haven’t really got a clue on how to grow it from there. The next step would perhaps be to set up some kind of “.me” website that would showcase my skills and experience. However, I think touching people through articles and content is more powerful than a resume site. I’ll prioritize writing posts on LinkedIn for now, and see where that leads.

Actionable goal: one post a week.

Get back in touch with development

I’ve been a lead/manager the last 8 months and have gotten severely out of touch with coding. I’m still a pretty decent developer, but am so damn slow because well.. the skill set just rusts. Maybe it’s just me, but I do tend to move on from things quite fast if I don’t use the skills in a while.

I believe, however, that I can reach most valuable output by managing a team rather than coding myself. But in order to manage a remote team I need to harbor no illusions about not having to learn how to work like a remote developer first.

Actionable goal: watch all pluralsight videos on Ruby (I don’t work with Ruby but I just love the language).

Actionable goal: push some code on our product.

As for medium term goals.. my instinct tells me that I need to have a clear budget in mind, grow my professional and personal network and get in touch with other people living geographically independently. These goals are a bit fuzzy at the moment, and hopefully I’ll be inspired to see them a bit more clearly in the future.