In today’s world, the thought of networking sounds more like spending extra time online answering emails and friendship requests. Introverts have gotten away with making hundreds of new friends without ever having to leave the house.
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Love, Wind and Misadventures in Vice City
The only thing that came to mind about Miami before I got here was the life of Tommy Vercetti — a fictional character whose thug life was romanticized back when my brother and I would play Grand Theft Auto Vice City. The pastel colored buildings recognizable from the 70’s, the Latin music bumping from car…
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Listen, Lift, Forward Motion: The Art of Letting Go
The most important practice is a simple one: to listen. It catalyzes forward motion, even more so when you listen to yourself. Oh, to move and be moved, letting go.
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Jet Lag Chronicles: How to Avoid it Once and For All
I love everything about traveling. Throwing myself into and wading through unfamiliar waters, new foods, culture, rituals, and landscapes is the name of my game. The only thing that drives me crazy when embarking upon adventure, is the dreaded jet-lag. Preventing jet lag is simple – you just have to be disciplined. This winning combination…
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7 Ways Discipline Can Attract Freedom
Discipline and Freedom have been together forever. But it wasn’t always like this. Discipline didn’t think she would ever meet the right partner, she didn’t feel she was free spirited enough. Besides, people told her she was too tough and hard to get along with. To her, the world always favored those that go with…
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Travel with Purpose: A New Paradigm
“We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us.” (Anonymous) Although wanderers and adventurers have been exploring the globe since time unknown, the origins of mass tourism only began to rise at the beginning of the 19th century. Guidebooks and brochures, periodicals, photographs and personal travel journals provided unique insight into…
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Tokyo, City of Contrasting Beauty
Tokyo is a city of contrasting beauty, the city of “Wabi Sabi”, of appreciation for the imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete.
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Windows of the World: A Study in Urban Architecture
In Windows of the World, Portuguese photographer Andre Goncalves shows a very unique take on a vital element of every building, the window. If the eyes are the windows to the soul, are windows the eyes of the world? Andre not only brings windows to life but also to gives some vitality and personality to them.…
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Towards an Untethered Globe
When we hear loose talks on why we should build walls near our borders , many of us have gory visions of a broken world that keeps us awake at nights. It makes one thing clear – there are still many ways, even today, in which the world can be divided. Two bloody world wars…
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Love The Unknown
In youth, the world is wide open.Life is about trying new things, pushing boundaries, discovering limits, and exploring a planet that is ripe with possibility. As time passes we surround ourselves increasingly with comforts and lose interest in discovery. Our propensity for boldness atrophies. Our longing to travel and see around the next corner gradually…
Read MoreWhy Coliving is Right for Me
The idea of a six-month lease draws out my fear of commitment and makes me hyperventilate a bit. Instead, I roam from place to place in constant search of a squat rack. I am a modern day nomad with no permanent address and I own no household items such as pots and pans. All I…
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