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Would you like to successfully Quit Your Job, Travel The World, Pursue Your Dreams, and truly do your life’s work?

Some of the most popular posts on the internet today seem to be about taking control of your life and removing yourself from the corporate setting to travel the world, become your own boss, and fulfill your dreams.

Really, it is all simply a euphemism for creating and living the life that you want rather than accepting the status quo of the commuter and workaday grind.

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Because the ‘personal freedom’ topic is so broad and entails many aspects which are required to achieve success (unless you are rich) I am going to break this up into a series that will run every Thursday.

Today, I have a short post to kick everything off and I would just like to offer up five questions or thoughts for you to ponder and ask yourself to determine if you are indeed ready to “chase your dreams.”

1 Are you caught in a rut? Whether at work or personally?

2 Are you prepared to be an active participant in your quest personal freedom?

3 What would you ideally like to be doing with your life?

4 Do you have personal or familial obligations that you need to sort out?

5 Would you like to make a change?

Whether you are interested in moving overseas, changing jobs, or starting your own business. All of these goals require one thing, a positive mindset and a plan with room for flexibility. With that you can achieve anything.

Please join me on Thursday of next week for the first post in this series when we will look at “How to Remove Yourself from a Negative Situation.”

Now, I ask you, are there other questions that you ask yourself when thinking about pursuing an aspiration, or change? Let me know in the comments.

Editor’s note: in case you have recently noticed the new tagline above -

Living Overseas | Blogging | Inspiration and Motivation | Entrepreneurship

MyTropicalEscape has taken a slight turn to include more niche topics. For those of you that are interested in my new editorial calendar, every Monday I will have a post on blogging or marketing, on Tuesday’s there is the flagship “Ten Questions With” interview series, Thursday will focus on the new series about personal freedom, and Friday will be a day to give back where I will discuss social or humanitarian issues.

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Today is the day that I go from being a fulltime employee to fulltime entrepreneur.

It has been a tremendous amount of hard work actually getting to this point and being able to remove myself from structured employment.

For those of you who would like to find yourself in the same position, perhaps you have been thinking about consulting or freelancing, I offer up these tips in a list that I call:

From Zero to Entrepreneur in Five Easy Steps

1. Create your vision
2. Get motivated
3. Get a plan
4. Get focused
5. Be persistent