Day Thirteen :: And It Was Called Trello

I haven’t been this excited without drugs in a long, long time.

Today I listened to interviews.

Oh, by the way, the course I’m doing is called 3m1k and it’s run by a guy called Niall Doherty.

The reason I didn’t mention it in the first place was because, if I’d been unhappy with the course, I would have had to say so, and that would have been embarrassing and unpleasant. I don’t want to be bad-mouthing people online. I’d feel like a jerk. I mean, unless they’re horrible evil pirates and naming and shaming them would be a public service. Thankfully, that is not the case here. Far from it.

I’m sure I’ll write about this again later, but here’s a tiny bit of background. I came across Niall’s site, Disrupting the Rabblement, when I was doing background research for my Vipassana piece. Niall had done Vipassana but had only managed two and a half of the prescribed ten days. He was very respectful of the process, but just couldn’t handle the discipline of the regime. At that point.

However, while I was visiting his site, I noticed that he was one of those people who’d quit his job to go travelling, and had managed to carve out a decent living online in the process. He was a digital nomad. A technomad. As you prefer. And I’ve always fancied a little bit of that, so I read a few more of his blog posts and signed up to his newsletter.

When he started advertising his course training people to work online, and when I saw his money-back guarantee, I signed up. Mostly I signed up because a) he seemed like a lovely bloke and had been very warm in a very brief email correspondence we’d had, b) he’d been living the dream for some time. And he’d done this…

Have a look here for photos from his trip around the world without flying.

So there it is and here I am, thirteen days in.

And although I could probably have tracked down everything I’ve seen and read so far myself – I could even have interviewed Niall’s interviewees, in theory – it would have taken me years to gather all that knowledge and sage advice together. And having it all in one place has been very well worth the £230 the course costs.

So today, I listened to particularly inspiring interviews with Carlo Cretaro, Dan Johnston and Sean Ogle.

Better still, I discovered Trello.

I don’t think it’s too much of an exaggeration to say that I’ve been looking for Trello all of my life. (It’s a little bit of an exaggeration, I’ll grant you. But not too much.)  If you need help organising yourself, it’s perfect. And it’s free.

Look! My life, sorted. 

Oh, and I also discovered Airbnb, which is to say spent a moment looking at the possibilities, Amsterdam-wise, and that’s very exciting.

And now, I have to get on.

Until tomorrow.

 

Filed under: TRAINING Tagged: 3k1m, Airbnb, Carlo Cretaro, Dan Johnston, Disrupting the Rabblement, Niall Doherty, Sean Ogle, Trello, Vipassana