The book guides the reader through an exercise I’ve done every 6 months for the past 15 years, that forces a look at what your ideal life would be and how to get there through the following 5 steps.
1. Eliciting conscious and unconscious needs, desires, and values)
2. Checking that you’re investing in a balanced way across life – Personal, Emotional, Physical, Social & Relationship, Material Possessions, and Location
3. Comparing where your effort is going in life currently to where it would need to go to build your perfect life and not to unconsciously wasted areas
4. Making a list of actionable steps to slowly sculpt your current life into an ideal one
5. Boiling your chosen steps down into tasks/steps, advice to yourself, and a plan that goes into a permanent journal.
At the end of this process, I promise you’ll have more clarity on your life than ever before.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Carlos Grider launched A Brother Abroad in 2017 after a “one-year abroad” experiment turned into a long-term life strategy. After 65+ countries and a decade abroad, he now writes about FIRE, personal finance, geo-arbitrage, and the real-world logistics of living abroad—visas, costs, and tradeoffs—so readers can make smarter global moves with fewer surprises. Carlos is a former Big 4 management consultant and DoD cultural advisor with an MBA (UT Austin) and Boston University’s Certificate in Financial Planning. He’s the author of Digital Nomad Nation: Rise of the Borderless Generation and is currently writing The Sovereign Expat.