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Momentos: June 1st – June 15th, 2018 Momentos: July 1st – July 15th, 2018

Momentos: June 16th – June 30th, 2018

MOMENTOS
June 16th – June 30th, 2018

We come down off a high green plain to spectacular views, still water wrapping around hills and mountains. Not a lake, but a reservoir. They created this 40 years ago, flooded an entire town in the process. Somewhere down there beneath the zip liners and the pale blue are the remains of buildings, lives and stories long forgotten.

Business obsessed. Woke up this morning thinking of Facebook ads. On the way to rafting I’m crunching numbers. 6 jeeps, 7 customers in each. €65 a head if they stay overnight. That’s €500 best-case. After paying staff and other expenses, surely doesn’t leave much. Plus, it’s seasonal. Nobody’s getting rich off this, but it probably affords a decent living.

Been ten weeks working on this new client project but now we’re shifting gears. Which means about half the hours and half the pay for me. Looking at it as an opportunity. Actually couldn’t have happened at a better time. Lots of travel coming up and about to relaunch my course, was wondering how I’d squeeze it all in. Much less pressure now.

Rafting in Montenegro

Epic work day, getting my course relaunched at last. Been almost six months since I closed the doors. Have a nice new video series created for it, the top of the funnel. We’ll see how that goes. I look around at other people teaching online business, and I reckon my free and premium content is up there with the best of them, and getting better all the time.

Almost halfway through the year, so I took some time to write out all my “wins” so far in 2018. Man, it’s been a great year so far, on pretty much every level. Health, wealth, relationships. All good and moving in the right direction. Reminded myself of lots of small wins, too, things I’d almost forgotten. What’s that saying? We overestimate what we can do in a day, but underestimate what we can do in a year.

Been reading a book about Greek and Roman mythology. Thought there would be some deep wisdom in there. But finding it a lot like Aesop’s Fables: mostly bullshit with no real meaning. Occasionally you’ll find a universal truth or a clever tale in there, but not worth weeding through all the nonsense to find it.

Looking out over Lake Piva in Montenegro.

My coach asked me to go do a retreat on a sailboat in Greece in August. Which would be cool, except I’ve already got plans for August: Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Faroe Islands, Gran Canaria. Realized the other day that I’ll actually end up spending time in 12 or 13 countries this year. It’s a bit much, to be honest.

Had an idea today to start a video series where I take to the streets and ask people in every city I visit how they’d describe that place in one word. But looking at some videos like that already on YouTube, I realized that anyone can do it. I need to be making videos that only I can make, sharing ideas that other people aren’t sharing.

Arriving in London at the beginning of a heatwave as England beats Panama 6-1 in the World Cup. The city is buzzing. We find a lively spot called Boxpark, munch on vegan fare and watch people watching football. People of all different races with all kinds of faces from all different places. That’s the beautiful thing about this town.

Hi from London. What’s your favorite thing to see or do in this city?

Posted by Disrupting the Rabblement on Monday, June 25, 2018

We’re at Trafalgar Square as the sun goes down, and there’s a young guy beatboxing and playing the violin, concocting songs with his speakers and foot pedals, form classical to Coldplay. He’s from Australia, he tells us during a break, just got into town, traveling around Europe for the summer, making his music and living his life.

Between bus tours and shooting video and long dinners with friends, there’s little time to squeeze in the proper work stuff. That’s probably the biggest downside of running an online business: it can be hard to unplug completely, kick back and enjoy the travels. I’m always on the lookout for wifi, start feeling anxious when I haven’t checked emails for a while.

York. As soon as we come out of the train station I realized I’d been here before. Seven years ago, stopped off for a few hours en route to Durham. One of those memories relegated to the back of my brain. Some of what’s back there will never be recalled. Someone else might as well have lived those moments.

They had the perfect shop for me in York.

Posted by Niall Doherty on Tuesday, July 10, 2018

Random things about York:

Apparently it’s the most haunted town in Europe.
Guy Fawkes was born here.
The Shambles is believed to be the oldest shopping street in Europe.
York Minster is one of the world’s largest cathedrals. Took them 252 years to build the thing.
Constantine the Great was crowned in York in 306AD, the only Roman emperor to have been crowned anywhere outside of Rome.

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Picked up a rental car this morning and headed west to the Lake District. We’re staying at a farmhouse just outside Keswick, with four chickens and a half-deaf dog. Took a spin down to Derwent Water and around through Honister and Newlands Pass, taking in some fantastic views. But I’m not all that happy today.

Trying to record a video in every spot on this road trip. We were exploring around the lake today and hiked up to the Catbells as the sun was going down, shot the latest video there, talking about how to compete with $1.50 freelancers from India and the Philippines. I’ll have a lot of editing to do once we get settled in Amsterdam next month.