Day 40: Taking Those Exciting Next Steps…

Dear 40 Days To Your New Life In Europe Student,

Congratulations.

Forty days ago, you began a journey that we promised would lead you to your new life overseas, wherever you decided to launch it.

Today, 40 days later, you’ve arrived. You’ve made your New Life In Europe Plan… and you’re ready to fire it off.

You’ve considered your priorities, preferences, agendas, and objectives in wanting to reinvent your life in a new country…

You’ve figured your nest-egg and calculated how much money you have to live on on a monthly basis…

You’ve considered the world’s top overseas havens and chosen the one or two (or perhaps three) that seem the best fit…

You’ve researched residency options… you’ve solicited tax advice… you’ve shopped for health insurance…

You’ve organized your administrative life so that you can manage your investment portfolios, your bank accounts, and your credit cards online from anywhere in the world…

You’ve downsized and made a plan for what you’ll take with you when you move… and you’ve thought through what you’ll need to acquire once you arrive in your new home…

You’ve organized your scouting expeditions to each location on your short list… you’ve thought through a plan for finding new digs (to rent, not to buy… at least at first!)…

You’ve begun thinking through options for supplementing your income in your new life… how to appoint your new home… how to learn a new language (if you need to)… how to make new friends…

You have now a new life overseas… in a box.

You can launch it now… in a few months… or maybe a year from now. But you’re ready.

Taking stock of the ground we’ve covered these past 40 days, there’s just one final piece of advice we can offer:

Whenever you do decide to put the plan we’ve made over the past 40 days into action, the result will be that you’ll be living in a different country.

As well as stating the obvious, we’re offering perhaps the most fundamental and profound insight you need to have at this point.

This program has armed you with everything you need, a step-by-step plan for launching a new life overseas…

In a country that will be foreign.

Or, considered from the other side of the border, in a country where you’ll be the foreigner.

You’ll be the outsider… the guest.

In every place we’ve recommended in this program as a potential destination for your new life overseas, you’ll be a very welcome guest. Nevertheless, it’s a good idea to keep the situation in perspective.

Your new life is going to be a grand adventure, full of unexpected delights and discoveries. Your quality of life will improve (we’d bet), and, without question, your horizons will expand. A year… three years… a decade after you’ve embarked on this new chapter of your life, you’ll look back at the you you are today and smile. How far you’ve come, you’ll realize with deserved satisfaction.

Big-picture, the journey you’re on the brink of will be (again, we’d be willing to bet on it) the most wondrous of your lifetime.

Day-by-day, it’ll often seem a study in frustration and insanity.

What is wrong with these people (you may find yourself wondering now and then)? Why do they do that like that? Don’t they know that’s not how that’s done? There’s a better… simpler… easier… more efficient way!

And, likely, you’ll be correct. But that’s not the point.

Better simply to accept life as it is in your new home.

To change how you look at things, process things, consider things, react to things…

You aren’t going to change the people or the culture of the place where you’re relocated. You are going to have to make the adjustment. Keep everything in perspective.

On that note… you’re off!

You should be armed with everything you need to commence this next, exciting stage of your life.

If, though, you think of a question we haven’t addressed in these 40 days, we and our team are only an email away. The program is complete… but your adventure is just beginning. And we understand that, as you embark on it, you may encounter situations or challenges that we somehow overlooked. In that case, please, let us hear from you.

And, please, let us know how things turn out. Keep in touch from wherever in the world your new life overseas takes you. We’ll be very interested to hear the details…