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What If You Could Achieve Your 10-Year Goals in 6 Months?

A Week in the Life of a Working Traveller - Week 3

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Jo Barnes
Mar 14, 2025
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Thomas Edison didn’t just think about inventing the lightbulb.

He didn’t sit around, making endless notes, reading every book on electricity, and waiting until he had the perfect plan before starting.

Nope. He rolled up his sleeves and got to work. He tested, adjusted, failed, and repeated—over 10,000 times—until one day, the breakthrough came.

That’s the beauty of clarity. It doesn’t come from thinking. It comes from doing.

Marie Forleo says it best:

Clarity comes from action.

Yet, so many of us stay stuck in thinking mode. We over-plan, over-analyse, second-guess ourselves, and never actually move forward. We wait for the right moment, the perfect strategy, the foolproof plan.

But the truth is, nothing reveals the right path faster than taking action and seeing what happens.

That’s why, with only 20 weeks left until we leave Brisbane to reignite our full-time nomadic life, I’m diving into a series of experiments.

In his book Zero to One, Peter Thiel famously asks: “If you have a 10-year p…

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