FL004: Perpetual Travel (PT) And Entrepreneurial Anonymity With Steve Michaels
In this episode, we discuss: -Freedom & how to live it in an unfree world -Perpetual Travel (PT) and what that means -How to anonymize yourself with a New Mexico LLC -Bitcoin & what it can do for entrepreneurs -Staying positive in an uncertain world “The Perpetual Traveler” Steve Michaels joins me in an in-depth [...]
FL003: Intrinsic Motivation with Jeremy Frandsen
In this episode, we discuss: -Autonomy, rebellion, and self understanding -Freedom of choice -The Freedom “Traps” -Intrinsic Motivation & Single Motivating Purpose (SMP) -Attaining Freedom with an internet business -The importance of freedom & autonomy -Can we be “free in an unfree world”? Internet Business Mastery’s Jeremy Frandsen joins me on the Freedom Lovin’ Podcast [...]
And then I turned 30…and then I stopped growing
I was reading this article today about how it’s hard to make friends after you leave school. Well yeah, in school you are surrounded by people around your age, going through the same challenges at the same time. Friends and dates are being handed to you on a silver platter. But that’s not the real [...]
FL 002: Freedom Lovin Podcast #2: Breaking Free with Wes Bertrand of Complete Liberty
In this episode, I discuss: What is freedom and why is it important? Why do people think they’re free when they’re not? What does it take to get more free in your own life? Complete Liberty’s Wes Bertrand joins me on the Freedom Lovin’ Podcast as we delve into philosophical underpinnings of freedom. Wes [...]
9 lessons from the road
My trip started out kind of crazy, with a bizarre event that occurred right as I approached the first TSA agent to get my ID and license checked. I oddly had it going through my mind what a disaster it would be if I didn’t have my license. Then I opened my wallet and…there it [...]
Praise be to 2013
I’m in Austin this week and I’m excited. Yesterday I landed at the airport and took a short cab ride to my friend Erica‘s co-working space on the East Side. Perfect place to get a ton of work done! An old house in a cool part of town. I had Mexican food at Chapala’s (found [...]
7 Ways To Simplify And Free Up Your Life
Minimalism is the buzz word people are throwing around these days when talking about simplification. To some it means losing all their toys and things they have grown attached to, and that’s terrifying! To others, it means getting rid of the unnecessary stuff and putting more value on what really matters to them. Here are [...]
FL 001: Freedom Lovin Podcast #1: Finding Freedom in an Unfree World
Introduction to Freedom Lovin, and how I am finding freedom in an unfree world. Links: http://freedomlovin.com http://facebook.com/freedomlovinlife http://twitter.com/freedomlovinguy In this episode, I discuss: -Why freedom is important -Why most people struggle to bring freedom into their lives -A preview of what the show is about Resource: Book: How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World [...]
Easy for you!
I live a very different lifestyle from many people I know, especially those who are around my age. Most friends and family are very supportive of what could easily be seen as craziness, flakiness, or a hippied-out lifestyle, and most are happy to see me bounce around the planet and the country (although I’m no [...]
Why I just bought bitcoins at their all time high today
Bitcoin is a digital currency that’s been around since 2009, and has exploded in value in the past few months. Here’s a quick video of what exactly bitcoin is: In December last year, I met up with my friend Steve of keepyourassets.net and freemarketincome.com and had a long discussion about Bitcoin. I had known about it [...]
Travel hacking and other shortcuts
“We have to leave now and you don’t even have your shoes on!” said my Mom many times in my youth. “No problem” I said. “I’ll put them on in the car”. Ever since I can remember, I always had a burning desire to be efficient with my time. If there was ever extra time, [...]
The T. Harv Eker Jars System: Building Financial Freedom
Back in 2007, I attended T. Harv Eker’s “Secrets of the Millionaire Mind Intensive” 3-day seminar, based on his best selling book, Secrets of the Millionaire Mind. One of the things I learned among a lot of valuable stuff was his “jars” system of organizing your money. At first, it seems too simple of a [...]
Reflections on Nam
“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.”- Albert Camus” I can’t get enough of this quote. I interviewed this woman Anu for my Tri Swim Coach podcast, and she mentioned this quote towards the end of our chat, [...]
Japanese Hookers & Beer on Ice
“My hotel room stinks!” I declared to the woman at the front desk. On my first two days back to Saigon, I was staying in a hotel that had good reviews on Agoda, but my room had a god-awful smell. Every breath I took felt like I was inhaling an assortment of nasty chemicals. When [...]
A Dalat Delight
They didn’t have any avocado ice cream, so I had to settle for coconut ice cream. Life has gotten pretty rough! I had no idea what to expect by going to Dalat, but I knew I had to get there. It’s a town in the mountains, a 7-8 hour bus ride (in my case [...]
The Streets of Saigon
Saigon is a chaotic city with something completely bizarre, funny, interesting, or confusing pretty much on every block. “Sidewalks” are all relative- people drive their motorbikes on sidewalks, and block them with tables, chairs, fruit stands, grills, and parked motorbikes. Here’s a look at a few samples of the hilarity: I left Saigon this morning [...]
19
That was the average age of US soldiers being drafted into the war. As I learned from the hit song from the 80′s: Sunday, I went to the War Remnants museum here in Saigon with one of the DC members, Stacey. As expected, it was a blast of sobering reality in addition to being a [...]
Downward Dong
First full day in Saigon and it was…full! Saigon and Ho Chi Minh are interchangeable as it turns out. “Same Same” as my taxi driver on the way in said. Went for a walk this morning and went about 2 blocks and this guy pulls up on a motorbike next to me and starts asking [...]
Vietnam 2013
New year, new country. I’m off to Vietnam for 2 weeks, 2 days. In fact, I just got in to my hotel in Ho Chi Minh a little while ago! Just a quick wrap up of my travel day and will have more soon, with pics! Flights- Not terrible. I totally forgot, the long flight [...]
Alex Jones vs Pierce Morgan
I put this post up a week ago, but put it up as a page by mistake. Oh boy! Piers Morgan had Alex Jones on to debate gun legalization: Um….yeah it’s been hot to trot around the internets today and just wanted to throw in a few comments to the fray. Kind of a classic [...]
Stateless Man Interview, Holidaze, Purpose
I completely forgot to link to my interview on The Stateless Man radio show! The recording was really poor due to me being on my cell phone, but I enjoyed getting a chance to chat with the host Fergus Hodgson about a previous blog post of mine “Why It’s Stupid to Stress Over Money“. Anyway, [...]
Chillin in San Diego
My latest update from the beach. Wow that second video was really shaky! It can only get better from here I think. Here’s an article about Heart Rate Variability Training, which is what I’m doing with the EmWave that I mentioned: http://www.bulletproofexec.com/how-to-biohack-your-courage-using-the-wizard-of-oz-and-heart-rate-variability/ And here’s my twitter: http://twitter.com/kevinkoskella
To live free or die trying
Today marks my 2 month anniversary of moving in to my place right near Mission Beach in San Diego. I would call this my honeymoon! It’s pretty much living in paradise as far as the setting- I walk about 20 steps to the sand! And the beach is no joke- wide open and usually almost [...]
Why voting is bad for your health
So….today was election day in America, and some people get all excited and riled up. Many people like to argue about the left vs. the right, or about the latest proposed law that’s either going to “save” the state or destroy it. Me, I don’t vote. I actually take what the late George Carlin said [...]
Your Future Self is YOU
After reading this article on Cracked.com on 5 Ways Your Brain Tricks You Into Sticking With Bad Habits, it dawned on me how much of this is true, even in my own life. It’s very easy to keep bad habits but much harder to change. And the point they made in the article that so [...]
Flow & Constant Change
Summer’s almost gone in the northern hemisphere….and I couldn’t be happier! Not about Summer being over. I love summer. I love the sun, the warm weather, all the activities available to me…and unlike many people I even like a little “heat” like we had recently here in the Perfect Weather City (it even got up [...]
Why It’s Stupid to Stress Over Money
It’s a weird quote, but it totally makes sense. I read this many years ago when I was reading the Rich Dad, Poor Dad set of books by Robert Kiyosaki: “The lazier I think, the more money I make.” The times when I have made the most money have no doubt been the times I [...]
The Common Wisdom Trap
“They say that all good things must come to an end.” “They say a house is the best investment you’ll ever make.” “They say you should wait an hour after eating to swim.” Funny thing is, this kind of age old conventional wisdom is usually wrong! Alfie Kohn even wrote a book on this called [...]
30 Days No-Car Experiment: Results
Thursday was my last day of my 30-day experiment of now owning a car. Here are the results. First, let’s start with the financial side of it. My transportation expenses, May 23rd-June 21st: Car2Go trip fees: $184.22 Rental Car: $52 Gas for rental: $16 Public Transportation (bus/trolley): $74 (I bought a Compass Card which allows [...]
8 Ways to Create More Time And Have More Fun
“Ticking away, the moments that make up a dull day…” “Every year is getting shorter…never seem to find the time.” -From Pink Floyd’s “Time” Time is the great equalizer. At least that’s what I hear. But why is it that some things seem to slow time down, while others seem to make it fly by? [...]
How To Be Free From Your Emotions
I woke up stressed out, stomach in knots, dreading what was to come of the day. It didn’t matter if I had a solid 8 hours of sleep, or just a few. It didn’t matter if the sun was shining or behind thick, dark clouds. It didn’t matter if I had 10 million things that [...]
Reflections on Southeast Asia
Now that I’ve been back in ‘Merika for over two weeks, I wanted to review the good, bad, and ugly with my trip to Southeast Asia. A friend commented that it seemed like the beginning of the trip wasn’t going well. I thought back on it and it’s true, that was probably the roughest part [...]
My 30-Day Challenge: Living Without a Car
Before I left for my 9-week trip to Southeast Asia, I moved out of my apartment, and sold my car. I didn’t see any point in paying for the car in any way while I was gone, and it somehow had appreciated in value, while it was approaching 100,000 miles, so it was a good [...]
“Welcome Back To the Real World”
I’ve been back in California for 8 days now and in San Diego for 5, and putting the finishing touches on the travel part of my blog. The flight home from Bangkok was….amazing! We were delayed by about 90 minutes because of some computer issue on the plane, and the flight had a one-hour stop [...]
Saving money and traveling: How did I do in Month #2 in Southeast Asia?
Time for another money post! This is the second post with an expense comparison of traveling vs. staying in SD. You can read the first one here. Did I still travel and save money? How badly did losing my ATM card hurt me? What were Singapore, Malaysia, and Thailand like price-wise compared to Bali? In [...]
Cambodia Part 3: Phnom Penh & my last days in Southeast Asia
I left off over a week ago, back in Cambodia and hitting Phnom Penh, the capital city, before my final trip home. Before I get to that, I’d like to comment on an experience I had in Siem Reap my third day there. I was eating lunch, and a hawker walked up to me. Normally [...]
Traveling Health & Fitness Tales from Southeast Asia
Here’s the latest Healthy Mind Fit Body podcast where Wes & I discuss my experience with eating on the SE Asia trail…from packaged treats to interesting meats! http://healthymindfitbody.com/2012/05/04/91-health-and-fitness-traveling-tales-from-asia/
Cambodia Part 2 – Angkor Wat
So a girl from my bus/taxi ride, Martine, from Boston, stayed at my hotel and we decided to do Angkor Wat together. I decided that the best way to go would be to hire a tuk-tuk to take us around. Bikes was another idea but the temples are probably 8km away from the hotel and [...]
Cambodia Part 1
Two crazy long days of travel to get from Chiang Mai to Siem Reap, Cambodia. I ended up taking a “local” bus to Bangkok. The travel agents try to steer tourists away from these buses and into tourist buses. The problem was, the tourist buses were all sold out, so I didn’t have a choice, [...]
Chiang Mai and a little Pai
My four-star hotel in Chiang Mai was good times! The room was huge and even had carpeting- the first time I’ve seen that in Asia. I even did a little workout in the room! Chiang Mai has the feel of a small city. There aren’t any big buildings and things are sooooo mellow compared to [...]
A tough man made humble
Bangkok was so hot that it took too much energy to reach into my pocket to grab my camera to take pictures. Plus I wasn’t very inspired. (I swear I’m going to get some Bangkok pics, it has it’s interesting aspects, and I’ll be back there in a week or so) Hottest I’ve been yet [...]
Travel Mistakes in Thailand
Just a quick note on some of the mistakes I’ve made on this trip, and lately: 1. Didn’t plan enough time for Thailand. I didn’t realize how much bouncing around I would be doing on the islands, and the one day I wasted being sick in Phucket is now hurting me a bit. I’ve got [...]
Ko Tao/Ko Pha Ngan
Days go by so fast on the islands. Ko Tao was nice. I met up with Raffy & a couple of her new friends, one guy from Holland and another guy from Chile. The first day we hung around the beach, the water was probably about 95 degrees near the beach, a little cooler when [...]
Exercising around the world
Cool video I just came across! I love how he hit Railey Beach. My exercising around Asia has been pretty good. I was doing 50 pushups every other day, tons of walking every day, stretching as much as I can, and swimming whenever possible. I’ve done 2 yoga classes, the rock climbing was a nice [...]
Railey Beach
I think I’ve found…the most beautiful place on earth! I was glad to leave Phi Phi and it’s piping hot weather and party atmosphere. The boat was about 1.5 hours and then get on a little boat that takes us in to shore. Funny setup because you have to take your bags and walk through [...]
Ko Phi Phi
I took one of those packaged snorkeling trip + lunch deals with a travel company. It was…interesting! The boat had room for 619 people and there were 619 people, about 590 Asians, a handful of Indians and like 6 white people. Funny thing, white people don’t stick together! There’s 2 parts of Ko Phi Phi [...]
Phuket
Arrived in Phuket (pronounced “poo-ket”) last night, after a 2 hour flight delay in KL. Funny thing, the story was that the pilot just didn’t show up! It’s pouring now so good chance to catch up on online stuff. Quick blog right now, more pics later. I’m also going back and uploading videos from Bali [...]
The Dip (Part 2): Kuala Lumpur
Kuala Lumpur (KL) Ended up having to take a bus from Singapore instead of the train. Apparently, the train sells out days in advance, and since I didn’t know where I was going to be day to day, I had to book last minute. Long story short I took a 1.5 hour subway ride to [...]
The Dip (Part 1): Singapore
Just like businesses, every long trip has a dip. I hit mine right as I was leaving Bali! So here’s a brief rundown of what’s been going on: I tried to time the amount of cash I was needing the last few days in Bali so that I would spend everything as Ieft the country. [...]
A Massage is Not a Massage…
So it’s been a few days since I’ve blogged, lots going on and I moved from a wordpress.com site to wordpress.org, still working the kinks out with some stuff, like the links on the right look like text and descriptions are blending in instead of showing up when you scroll over the links. Details… Lots [...]
Is it possible to travel abroad AND save money?
When I was telling people before I left the US that I was going on a 2+ month trip to SE Asia, most of them had reactions like: “Oh wow, business must be going really well!” or “Can you afford that???” or “How can you do that, what about your business?” The funny thing is, [...]
Kuta!
I moved down to crazy Kuta a few days ago and it’s not bad!!!! It’s a little crazy and busy but it’s got lots of nice restaurants and it’s a good central place to be. It’s also not as cheap as I thought it would be. I’m paying 250Rp a night at this budget place…that’s [...]
Update and Some 3rd World Realities
My walk around the Gilli T island was pretty cool, but after that I was kinda ready to head back to Bali, and ended up having about 4 extra hours before the boat left…I ate and did a little internet, then just waited! I left paradise and took a shuttle back to the madness of [...]
Pandangbai to Paradise
I decided to stay one extra night in Ubud, bid farewell (or Ciao) to Raffaella, and leave in the morning for Padangbai- which is a coastal town closer to the Gilli islands, where I wanted to hit after that. Why hurry to get over to the Gillis? Probably my biggest tactical mistake yet on this [...]
Nusa Lombogan to Ubud
The last day on the Lombogongan island was windy and raining. The worst weather yet on this trip. I was going to snorkel but the conditions didn’t look good in the morning. So I rented a motorbike and cruised around a bit. First time in like 15 years or something riding a scooter I think, [...]
Nusa Lembongan
So I got them down from the “discounted” price of 500,000r (about $50 US) to 300,000r to get a shuttle to the boat and a round trip fast boat to Lombongan. The guy told me “Shuttle will pick up from the hotel at 9:30 to 9:45 in the morning.” So I had a casual morning, [...]
Seminyak to Lovina
3 days in Seminyak, not really on purpose, but we hit a few road blocks, including Elisa’s day at the hospital (turned out to just be a sprained wrist). I also was able to hook up with a couple of people living at the Tropical MBA house in Seminyak. This is Dan Andrews’ house where [...]
They Paved Paradise
First 2 days on the island of Bali were a little rough! Landing in Bali and getting the tourist visa, meeting Elisa in baggage claim, and going through customs was all a piece of cake. (It’s super clear that the visa thing is just a another scam set up by governments to take your money [...]
31 Hours to Paradise
So I’m off to Bali today from San Diego, and writing this post from the Bangkok airport (which, I can’t seem to understand how the wifi works, so I’m typing it up and posting later). It goes like this: SAN–>LAX–>BKK–>DPS (Bali) It’s 31 hours of travel, including layovers. But first… Why Bali? Well…for many years [...]
Freedom Lovin in an Unfree World
Back in 2008 when I was living in a tiny apartment in Sydney, Australia, with my soon-to-be ex-wife, contemplating my life and the world around me, I ordered a book on Amazon that I had been meaning to read for a while called “How I Found Freedom In An Unfree World”, by Harry Browne. For [...]
