No Money
“I’d love to travel the world, but I just don’t have the money!”
Does this sound familiar?
It’s the absolute most common remark we get when we talk to people about our travels. In a way, it’s probably often true. But if seen in another perspective, many times it’s probably not.
When we look at our financial life, it usually consists of things like: mortgages, food, clothing, insurance, cars, bills, schools, entertainment, and other expenses. With all this, how is it possible to have the money for an extended trip around the world? Where is the money going to come from?
Those who do travel the world are usually not people who suddenly find themselves with an abundance of money they don’t know what to do with (except for a few lottery winners and such). Nor are they exclusively people with an especially high income or ones with rich parents.
People who travel the world are money wise,
very much like everybody else; like you!
The difference between a world traveler and the ones who remain at home is that as a world traveler you:
1. Acknowledge that you have this dream of going on a journey
2. Nurture this travel dream and keep it alive.
Keeping the dream alive and growing is what will become the creative generator for the money making ideas.
We love this famous quote because we think it really says it all:
Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, the providence moves too. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one’s favor all manner of unforeseen incidents, meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamt would have come his way. I learned a deep respect for one of Goethe’s couplets: “Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it!”W. H. Murray in The Scottish Himalaya Expedition (quoting John Anster who in turn paraphrased Goethe’s Faust in the final two sentences of the preceding quote from Murray).
Bold People
Along our journeys, we have met many “bold” people who have been committed to their travel dream and found a variety of ways to create the money they’ve needed to make their world travels.
A Scandinavian family we met in Fiji just sold their house to do something else for a whole year than just living in it. More than one just got rid of certain expenses and took an extra job for a while. Another rearranged his job to be able to take it with him and work a couple of hours a day from anywhere in the world. Someone else, who really saw which investment in oneself a world trip can be, took out a loan.
Then, of course, there are many possibilities to travel for less or next to nothing, which is just another way of dealing with the traveling costs.
There are a couple of different ways you can address the travel and money issue:
A. For raising money to go on your special trip, you can have a look at these areas:
- What do you already have?
- Changing your lifestyle.
- New sources of income.
- Work as you go
- Adjusting your travel plans.
More can be read about these on the Travel and Money page.
B. You can also focus on changing your lifestyle in a broader sense, and start to generate money in ways that allow you to have a whole independent, traveling lifestyle.
Find out more about that on the Creating Money page.
You can focus on one of these, but putting your attention on all of them will of course speed up the process.
Acknowledge your dream to travel, commit to it and address the money issue and you will soon be on your way!
