Oh god. Does anyone really want to read about this year? Haven’t we all had enough already? Alas. Tradition calls. Middle fingers up for 2020 one more time, whaddya say? The Not So Good Parts The first three months of this year hit like a snowball of trauma knocking the wind out of me. (I’m …
1 You aren’t a finished product. There is always more room to grow and learn. Don’t stop trying to be better. 2 The value of goals isn’t necessarily in achieving them but in striving to do so. 3 The concept of love portrayed in all forms of media and entertainment is utterly ridiculous. We really …
This has been a really hard post for me to write. I started drafting it back on Koh Tao a few weeks before my impending departure, but I kept erasing and rewriting it because my feelings about leaving changed by the day. I’ve been in Atlanta for a few days now and I’m still struggling …
WOW it has been one hell of a long time coming for this one. But I have finally arrived at my “final” destination for the moment: Thailand! As I’ve said before, one of the main reasons I wanted to become a freelancer was to have location independence so I could travel/live abroad. I had a …
My story, in any way it’s told, has never been about magical transformations. I didn’t quit my job to get paid to travel the world, or quit my job and become a passive income guru overnight. I quit my job and struggled with my mental health, struggled with making decisions, trusting myself, feeling worthy as …
I’ve never done a year-end review before, but they are actually quite popular in the blogging world so I figured I would give it a try. The end of the Gregorian calendar year also happens to coincide with my self-hosting anniversary: Almost exactly 1 year ago I bought the domain mishvoinmotion.com and started learning WordPress like …
Four months ago, I decided I wasn’t going to try to plan my next move after leaving Baltimore. I wrote in my Goodbye Baltimore post, “I decided that I’m not going to let myself make plans until after my vacation because I need some space and perspective after the past two years in the Hopkins system. …
Well, Baltimore. Feels a little bit like we’ve already done this… But we gonna do it again! Goodbye and good riddance, Baltimore. It’s been a weird two years. Despite not liking the city, I’m actually feeling a bit sad about leaving. It truly is the closing of a chapter, and no matter how much I don’t …
