Not Your Average Advice: Spend Your Birthday Alone

Living the Nomad Life

Digital Nomad is a term that’s gotten a lot of media attention in the past year or so.

It refers to people who, thanks to the Internet, manage to find a way to work while traveling. The title can refer to…

A One-Size-Fits-All Friendship Mantra

Last November, I wrote a post about being in your 20’s and accepting the inevitable demise of many friendships. This post will focus on a much more positive perspective when it comes to adult friendships. Enter: SHINE THEORY.

4 Months X 4 Cities: How it All Began

This post is the first post in a series documenting a personal journey I created for myself starting February 1, 2015. The journey took me from New York City, to Austin, TX, to San Francisco, and ended in Chicago, where I lived in each city for exactly one month…

About Amanda & DWP

Hi there, my name is Amanda Zimmerman.

The “The End” Post You’ve All Been Waiting For: A Conclusion to 4X4

FLASH BACK TO MAY 30, 2015

The following is from my personal journal:

Stop Drinking that 9-to-5 Kool-aid

Do you ever wake up and, as you lift your delicate cranium from your mediocre pillow, say to yourself, “Wow, I am just totally on the right path with my life these days”… yeah, me neither. Though recently, for the first time in a long time, I feel like I’m starting to…

I’m Not Nuts, I Just Wanna Feel it All.

We all just want to feel it all, don’t we? We want to experience our time on Earth in the fullest sense and are consistently toying with the projector of our life to bring our happy future into focus.

The Case for Living-While-Headphoned

“But if you really learn how to think, how to pay attention, then you will know that you have other options. It will actually be in your power to experience a crowded…