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IN SEARCH OF MORE TIME AND

LOCATION FREEDOM?

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STRATEGIES FOR DESIGNING A LIFE ON YOUR TERMS

Flâneur Life was started in order to help you create a location independent income and work, travel and live life on your terms. Ready? Let’s go…

  • LIFESTYLE DESIGN

Some articles that help shed light on how to create a lifestyle of your own design with the freedom to choose where you live.

  • How to Quit Your Job and Travel: Escape Paths
  • How to Find Remote Jobs You Can Work From Anywhere
  • A Guide to the Digital Nomad Lifestyle
  • What is a Flâneur? An Incomplete Guide
  • What's Your Biggest Lifestyle Design Roadblock?
  • PSYCHOLOGY

Writing on topics related to psychology, slow living, creativity, minimalism and the mindset of flânerie. 

  • Inception Tricks for Beating Procrastination
  • Intrinsic vs Extrinsic Goals: Which Are You Chasing?
  • Security vs Freedom: Which is Your Greatest Value?
  • Walking the Turtle (Or Slowing Down But Moving Faster)
  • The Infinite Versions of You (and Everyone Around You)
  • MAKING MONEY

These posts help you get started making money online through freelancing or the creation of a side hustle.

  • How I Made My First Dollar Online
  • Questions for Coming Up With Business Ideas
  • Freelancing vs Entrepreneurship: Where to Start
  • How to Make Money Freelancing Online
  • 7 Scalable Online Business Models That Can Set You Free
  • TRAVEL & EXPLORATION

Posts about flânerie, exploration, adventure and world travel on your own terms. 

  • The Most Walkable Cities in the World: A Flâneur’s Guide
  • 17 Eye-Opening Travel Words From Foreign Languages
  • 37 Famous Quotes About Exploration
  • Flânerie Definition: What Does the Word Actually Mean?
  • Quotes About Walking For Flâneurs

WORDS FROM THE BLOG

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Freedomcrafting

Social Conditioning Quotes: Thoughts on How to Escape the Matrix

Imagine you could start new. Just wipe the slate clean and start living life on your own terms, free from the expectations of others or society. To do this, it’s important to understand social conditioning. Your time is limited, so

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Blake Miner May 24, 2020
Best Walking Cities
Walking

The Most Walkable Cities in the World: A Flâneur’s Guide

If you’re serious about discovering the heart and soul of a city, lace up your walking shoes and go exploring on foot. Walking a city is the best way to experience it. It allows you to get a proper feel

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Blake Miner May 11, 2020
How to Find Remote Jobs
Freelancing

How to Find Remote Jobs You Can Work From Anywhere (Starting Today)

Whether you’re looking for a side hustle to generate extra income or you’d prefer a full-time position, there’s an abundance of jobs out there. You just need to focus in on your skill set then get out there and make

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Blake Miner April 14, 2020
Musings

Walking the Turtle (Or Slowing Down But Moving Faster)

There I was, cruising along the slippery neighbourhood sidewalks of the Canadian small town suburbs, trying to avoid face-planting into a patch of black ice. Pulling me along was my freak on a leash, Ginger: an uber happy, hyperdetermined golden

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Blake Miner March 18, 2020
Fuck you money
Entrepreneurship

F*ck You Money: Calculating the Cost of Freedom

Ever feel like standing up, flipping off your boss and pulling a Jerry Maguire? Or firing all your pain-in-the-ass clients? You’ve probably heard of the concept of f*ck you money—the amount of money that would put you in a position to

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Blake Miner February 9, 2020
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Practical Flânerie

What I’m Committing to Overall in 2020

Everything came together during a month I’d set aside to launch and grow my new private label health supplement brand. The plan: make the grind work more bearable by spending the month working on the beaches of Thailand. Here’s the

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Blake Miner January 29, 2020
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Killer Quotes

Quotes About Slowing Down in Life (For the Flâneurs of the World)

“Wisely and slow. They stumble that run fast.” Shakespeare “Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.” Søren Kierkegaard “The action that follows deliberation should be quick, but deliberation should be slow.”  Aristotle “Slow down

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Blake Miner August 31, 2019
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Case Studies

Lisa Kaela Yu: Flight Attendant to Full-Time Solopreneur (Case Study #1)

Name: Lisa Kaela Yu Occupation: Copywriter & Content Strategist + Founder & Director of Seeyu Studios Current Location: Vancouver, Canada Services: B2B/B2C (E-Commerce) Sales Copywriting, Web Content (Landing Pages, Blog Writing, Lead Magnets), Social Media Copy & More Websites: lisakaela.com

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Blake Miner August 28, 2019
Movies that make you question reality
Mind Expansion

Down the Rabbit Hole: 16 Movies That Make You Question Reality

Perception is subjective.  Everything we experience is reconstructed by our individual minds to create uniquely different versions of reality. We tell ourselves a story that dictates how we think, and over time, we become that story. If you’re going to

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Blake Miner August 16, 2019
Time Machine Advice to My Younger Self
Musings

Time Machine Advice to My Younger Self

The chat that transpired took me on a brief trip down memory lane. That conversation stuck with me, as all good ones do. I decided to create this post as a running tab of the thoughts that come up as

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Blake Miner August 14, 2019
online-business-models
Entrepreneurship

7 Scalable Online Business Models That Can Set You Free

Doing business online means fewer startup costs and a lower barrier to entry. There’s a chance to make a great return on investment since online business models are often highly scalable. Scalability refers to the ability to exponentially serve more

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Blake Miner August 8, 2019
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Practical Flânerie

What is a Flâneur? An Incomplete Guide to the Meaning and Philosophy

Our most valuable thoughts are often those that arise by chance at the moments we least expect them. There’s the brilliant business idea when you’re walking down the sidewalk, in no particular hurry to get where you’re going, merely taking

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Blake Miner August 2, 2019

ITEMS FROM THE TOOLKIT

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FLÂNEURS FROM AROUND THE WORLD

Camila is the type of person who would have trouble answering “what do you do?” As an artist-meets-investor, she likes spending most of her time in nature taking pictures, hiking, traveling, writing, and meeting cool people.

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Camila Gomez

📍Medellín

John is a scuba diving solopreneur and adventurer who bases himself in Asia as he travels around the world creating engaging content (including a viral lion video with 15 million views)! Working for himself, he gets to set his own hours and rates.

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John Hawkins

📍Seoul

Lisa is a writer and entrepreneur who went from side hustle to running her own creative agency. Previously a flight attendant, her mindset and work ethic have earned her the ability to control her income and travel at her own leisure.

Lisa Kaela Yu

Lisa Kaela Yu

📍Vancouver

Victor is an entrepreneur that scratched his own itch and built the #1 rated wine aerator and accessory product store on the market. He’s earned back his time and now works on his other passions including teaching entrepreneurship.

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Victor Min

📍Seoul

Nolan has done everything from teaching to business to acting, and he’s done it all around the world. As an astute investor, he spends a lot of his time reading, learning, analyzing and predicting—and he does so in locations that inspire him.

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Nolan Fyfe

📍Medellín

Evan is an investor, entrepreneur and soon-to-be published author who runs several online businesses. Now, he gets to spend most of his time doing things he loves including writing, reading, photography and traveling to exotic places.

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Evan Bleker

📍Seoul

As a corporate yoga instructor, Kenna gets to do what she loves each and every day. She works directly with entrepreneurs and executives to help them bring more balance to their work lives, and her adventures have taken her around the world.

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Kenna Kaklin

📍Edmonton

A Home for Free Range Humans

Partly inspired by Seth Godin’s quote, “Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, maybe you should set up a life you don’t need to escape from”, Flâneur Life is a blog and resource for like minds interested in crafting lives of autonomy through small business entrepreneurship, travel and continuous learning…

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What is a FLÂNEUR?

Flâneurs are ordinary people who think in unordinary ways. They wander with a purpose and see the world in terms of opportunity.

Flâneurs spend a good deal of their time philosophizing about a good life and working on businesses and projects they’re truly passionate about. Focusing on creative endeavours that support their overall minimalist lifestyle, flâneurs make decisions in real time as they come across new information. They are prisoners neither to life situations or to plans.

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WHERE DO I START?

Be sure to check out our list of resources for running an online business and traveling the world. There, you’ll find recommendations for everything from email service providers to language learning tools and travel essentials.

Also, there’s a list of influential books here. 

If you wish to join the community and get support with a project you’re working on, sign up here. It’s completely free. 

And finally, if you have any questions or need support, feel free to get in touch.

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