This is Optimal Living Daily Episode 683.

You're allowed to change your mind and your direction by Nick True with kflanders.com

and I'm your narrator Justin Mollick,

reading you blogs every single day of the year to help you live a more meaningful life.

This isn't a typical podcast, there's no interviews,

just to me narrating some amazing blogs and sometimes books to help you optimize your life.

And today's reading is a guest post on kflanders' site from Nick of Mapped Out Money.

Let's get right to it and start optimizing your life.

You're allowed to change your mind and your direction by Nick True with kflanders.com.

Two years ago my wife and I started planning a new life.

I worked as an engineer at a well-established company and Hannah was in physical therapy school.

We liked our lives okay but we wanted more.

I couldn't stomach working for someone else and Hannah couldn't bear the idea of working for

the same employer for too long. But most of all we wanted to travel. We dreamed of days spent

hiking through Glacier National Park and nights around campfires. We longed for sand between

our toes and the smell of the ocean. Instagram took over our phones, our time and our thoughts.

Travel was everything. On top of that the timing was perfect.

Hannah and I are young and we don't have kids. Now is when we should be running off on an adventure.

After all when also we're going to have this opportunity. The plan was for her to take a

travel physical therapy position after graduation and get sent to a new city every three months.

In the meantime I had two years to build up a freelance business on the back of blogging so

that I could work remotely. For two years we both worked 70 plus hours a week. Hannah focused on

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