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7.29 | The 5 Keys To Keeping a Crazy-Fun Ever-Changing Self-Growing Non-Monotonous Travel Lifestyle

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"At what point does travel as a lifestyle become as monotonous as staying in once place?" Colin Write, travel-addict like myself,  recently asked this question in his post Travel as a Lifestyle, on Flightster, a blog about all things travel. Again - appealing to all those travel crackheads fiending for more like myself and most likely yourself. 

As I read through his article about how he went from a location-dependent to a location-independent guy and some of the struggles and mental-blocks he went through to get there, he asked this one question that sparked a chord in me: 
"At what point does travel as a lifestyle become as monotonous as staying at home?" 
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7.28 | The Battlefield of Love and How to Stay in It

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Where do the butterflies go? Those days when your love and infatuation for your exclusive best friend with benefits is so strong it makes your friends sick to listen to you go on and on about how amazing they are in bed and how you could spend every waking moment with them. You know, the days that Billy Joel reminisced about in Scenes from an Italian Restaurant. When Dawson and Joey FINALLY got together. When you were head over feet, staring into each others eyes, making out in the movie theatre, hopelessly in love.  Where does all that gooey sappy ga ga shit go? 

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7.19 | Closing Chapters and Starting New Ones

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So, I’m about to book my flight back to the US from China. A scary moment. It’s scary not just because the cost of the flight is equivalant to working an entire month on a Chinese salary, but mainly because its a big change. Its leaving behind the life I’ve made myself here in Beijing over the past year, and heading back to the US where a lot is the same, but really everything is different. 

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7. 4 | PRIORITIZING: Lessons From A Lack There Of on Independence Day 2010

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It is 11:52 am on a Monday and I am a little hung over at work. Needless to say, I have not gotten too much done. And that, my friends, is why we must think about that little thing called PRIORITIES. Choosing and then acting on what is truly important to us based on our values. Realizing the difference between what we think is necessary but is actually unimportant, and what we think isn’t necessary but actually is damn well important!

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6.25 | A Closer Look at the Significance of our Significance

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“Almost everything you do will seem insignificant, but it is important that you do it.” - Mahatma Gandhi
 
While the most frequently quoted piece of wisdom given to us from Gandhi has been Be the change you wish to see in the world, I find that this one; Almost everything you do will seem insignificant, but it is important that you do it, is a bit more, how should I put this? ... unidealized ... matter-of-fact ... pragmatic? 
 
And in fact, I heard it in a surprising context that gave it a lot more meaning than it previously held for me.

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6.8 | The 26 Most Moving Travel Quotes for anyone on a Journey

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Travel, like all things that help us to grow as individuals, find ourselves, and gain wisdom in this world, involves a series of ups and downs, greater days and rougher days, and all in all, when done right, is and should be a roller coaster ride. Here are 26 quotes on enjoying this coaster. Read More... 

6.8 | Quote Commentary - The Difference Between living and LIVING, Dreaming and DOING

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"The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer." Read More ... 

5.18 | ON PAST LOVES: The Gaslight Anthem - "Here's Looking at you, Kid

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Taking a closer look at the lyrics of songs I tend to play on repeat. This particular song by The Gaslight Anthem of New Brunswick, New Jersey is about the past loves in our lives and saying goodbye to them. Its a great light song by a group that normally does punk-rock songs with a hint of Bruce Springsteen inspiration throughout. It is a bittersweet song that we can all relate to.

4. 26 | Life is a Moveable Feast - 3 Lessons from Hemingway

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I recently finished reading Ernest Hemingway's A Moveabe Feast, his classic memoir of Paris in the 1920's when he was just starting out as a writer. From it I gathered a selection quotes touching on his recollections of life and being poor, happy, and learning to satisfy life's hunger. Here is three of them. 

4.15 | 5 Thoughts on Happily Ever After

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Isn’t it weird that there are times when you can look at your boyfriend or girlfriend and all you know and all you feel tells you that you love that person so much, that they are your other and better half, that without them you would be completely and utterly lost...and then other times you can look at them and all you know and all you can think about is that you want to slap them in the fuc*ing face and just scream?

4.15 | SEVEN MONTHS

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The first guest post of LoIsInChina written by Mark Bonsignore on where his life has taken him since he's graduated from that four year period of your late teens and early twenties where the only people that know what's going on in their lives are, well, mostly no one for that matter. A great post about the ups and downs of life after college and why they are so worth it.
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4.13 | So Much Cooler, Better, Sexier than we give Ourselves Credit For
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"Have you ever received an email from someone, whether they be an good friend, someone you knew briefly, or maybe even a stranger, and the message they left you, while simple, turned out to be something much more meaningful than you thought when you first casually opened it. Well, today I did.."
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4.7 | The Zen of Streaking - 15 Reasons for a Naked Midnight Jog
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"Have you ever been streaking? If not, I suggest you put it on your list of things to do this week. There is something liberating about running around and letting it all hang out, hair blowing in the wind, your dangly bits bouncing all around, arms flailing out from side to side, and a big-ass grin on your face. Really, it is quite nice, make sure you get it done." READ MORE
4.5 | How to Not be an Asshole - How Kind are you Really?
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“I chose to come to China not because it was the easier thing to do. I’m going to have days where I’m more elated, more heartbroken, more happy, more sad, more depressed, experience more suffering, have more stress, don’t know where I am, know exactly where I am, missing home, never want to go back home, and the rest that comes along with it....” READ MORE

News!

  • New Page: PIC OF THE DAY. Each day I will upload a new awesome pic from my travels. Join the RSS so you can check it out in your reader =)
  • Just got back from my South East Asia Trip. Not sure how else I could describe it aside from amazing. Red about my crazy adventures here!
  • STAYING LONGER IN CHINA. Well my friends, it is official. I am staying longer over on this part of the world. My flight was just a few days ago on the 9th. Being at the time of writing it is the evening of March 11th I clearly have not made it back to the US yet.
  • I miss everyone so much...I wish I could be celebrating the start of spring with you guys.

Ni Hao from Beijing, China


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