Day 43: Step #17, Scouting Your Options

Get On A Plane

Dear Student,

By this stage of this program (10 days remaining!), you should have a good idea where you’d like to go and what you’d like to do there. Perhaps your attention has been caught by more than one destination, and you’re deliberating between two or three places.

The next step is to go to see each of them yourself.

In these 52 lessons, I’m walking you through the thinking, planning, and researching you need to do to prepare to launch your new life overseas. It’s all here–everything you need to consider, every step you need to take.

Except one. At some point, you’ve got to get on a plane. I can’t do that for you in one of these daily lessons. That, the on-the-ground scouting, you’ve got to do yourself. And you need now to make a plan for it.

How will you choose, ultimately, from among all the choices for where you could reinvent your life? How will you know if any particular location suits you… or not?

You’ll just know. As soon as you’re on the ground, sometimes within 24 hours of stepping off the plane, you’ll know. In your gut. A place will feel right… or it won’t.

Pay attention to this instinctive reaction to anywhere you’re considering. It’s as important (perhaps more so) than all the research you’re carrying out. A place can make perfect sense on paper but appeal not at all in person.

That’s ok. That’s why you need to take a trip to go see each place you’ve identified as perhaps holding out the lifestyle you seek.

Today I want to walk you through how to organize your scouting expeditions.

In each country that you visit, you should: