Six months ago we booked our first house sit outside of Illinois. At the time we had no other stops on our calendar - and this one was halfway across the country in Olympia WA.
It was a leap of faith, much like throwing a dart at the map and then having to figure out how to connect the dots to fill in the route with housesits. We needed to believe the right opportunities would present themselves...and, they did.
We also had to believe that we could work remotely, setting up shop across the country as digital nomads, zooming with clients from a variety of settings ranging from dining room tables to sunny covered patios - and occasionally, a home-based office with multiple monitors!
The grand-daddy of personal development, Napoleon Hill once said that “Whatever Your Mind Can Conceive and Believe, It Can Achieve.”
And... believe we have done... six months later we have traveled through Iowa, South Dakota, Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, Idaho, Oregon & Washington, housesitting along the way. We have conducted virtual workshops, attended virtual conferences, coached and consulted remotely with clients and even booked a few new ones.
Most importantly, we have begun to abandon the paradigms of our pasts that restricted our ability to accept change and believe in the possibilities that can only be experienced by letting go of our "best laid plans," or as the Conductor of the Polar Express so wisely observed, "Seeing is believing, but, sometimes, the most real things in the world are the things we can't see."
1) RV birdhouse at our current housesit
2) View of Mt. Rainer from our private beach in Olympia
3) Local treehouse (or tiny home!?) in our neighborhood
4) Trail down to Kalaloch Beach #4
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