Analysis paralysis is stopping so much goodness from coming into your life. Everyone who contacts me wants to be sure about their decision to move abroad before they take action. They think one more fact or one more piece of information is going to make things crystal clear. That is just not reality. My biggest tip for leaving the country smoothly is to do it without a definite plan. The most dissatisfied expats are the ones who go in with certain expectations that are ultimately not met. Your number one skill as an American moving abroad is adaptability. Stop trying to control every aspect of a process as complicated as immigration. Go forward with a road map and your savvy life skills. The reason there is no ultimate international move handbook is because every situation is unique. There is no best place to move. There is no complete checklist. There is no guaranteed path. You are charging a path that only brave Americans ever take. Take bold action. Moving abroad will change your life in the most magical ways. #creatorsearchinsights

Since we've been in the country five years ago, people that I used to know have come out of the woodworks and asked me for advice about how to move abroad and what I would suggest they do is the first action steps. And the reality is the amount of research that you think you need to do is much less than what you actually need to do. People will ask me, you know, before I even move to a new country, they'll say, "Well, what is the weather like there? Well, what is the health insurance like there? What is the fill in the blank? They'll ask me something about that place." And I just cringe because the answer is, "I don't know. I don't know. That is not a factor in my decision about where I'm going to move because I don't necessarily think that I'm going to find the forever place and tell them there. Once I'm there, I can decide if it's the forever place. But I'm not going into any of my personal moving decisions, thinking that this is going to be the forever place. For me, I think the number one lesson is that instead of trying to research yourself into a solution for everything, you just have to do more action. There are so many instances where I thought I knew how the entire process worked. I knew every piece of paperwork, these people were going to need. I knew how to fill out every form. I knew exactly what was necessary. And then you get to the office and the worker tells you, "No, you need this other thing." And you're like, "Well, there's 19 lists here that say, right here, that I don't need that. They don't care that you're 19 lists. Say that you don't need that. You need that if they say you need that. So, no matter how much you think you know before going into any of these processes, and this has happened in numerous countries. I've applied for visas in Thailand, in Japan, in Portugal. I've gone through this process in multiple places. And I'm telling you, they can say that you need something that isn't listed anywhere. And you will be just sitting there dumbfounded. You thought you knew everything. Instead of thinking, "I know everything," you go in as prepared as you can, but you take the action. And then when you get to the country, it's the same thing. Instead of trying to set up your entire living situation before you're there and have the exact house picked out, and this is where you're going, and this is the whole plan, instead you should just get there and wander around. We arrive in Dominican Republic when we first moved there with a two-day Airbnb reservation. And just no plan. We walked around, we talked to people, we called the numbers on signs that we saw of places that we might want to rent. We found a real estate agent. We just bumbled around until we found the right fit. And guess what? It wasn't the right fit the first time, or the second time, or the third time. I think we lived in like five or six places over the course of a year. And the last one was finally the right fit that we stayed there for seven months or so. But it's not going to be the right perfect fit just because you read something on a blog, or you've done all the research. You have to just get there and just soak in and immerse yourself in the experience. The more action you take, the more times you can figure out where you need to pivot to make the life that you actually want. And that life is not going to be found by reading articles on the internet. So my piece of advice to anyone who's asking whether they're in my personal life coming out of the woodworks to ask this or if you watching this video is just to take more action. Stop trying to put up barriers, stop trying to make it a five year plan. We went from idea to living in another country in one month. And you can absolutely do the same just by doing the action. My expertise is to teach you how to pick countries, move to them, slowly move to another if you so choose. I call it the slow mad lifestyle because you're not a nomad. You're not necessarily an expat. You're just slow madding around the world. And if that sounds interesting to you, you should definitely book an exit call consultation with me. And I will help you pick the right country for your first attempt and see if it's the right one out of the gate or if we need to pivot and move to another country. But the action is the important part. Don't delay just because you don't think everything is perfect. Pick action and really good things can come from it. You learn a lot once you You actually do the thing and figure out if it's right for you.