You aren’t moving abroad to please your followers, your friends, or your family. The choice to pack up your life and leave the United States is about getting YOU into alignment. Clients tell me their dream country to live in and almost always it’s based on seeking approval from others. They don’t want to live in countries nobody has ever heard of or places that are thought of as underdeveloped. Even though public perception and reality are often sooooo far apart, it sways people away from very viable options. My dream country to live in isn’t somewhere that checks arbitrary boxes, it is anywhere I feel at home. Don’t focus too much on your pre-conceived notions of a place. Keep an open mind and an open heart. Just remember, anyone sitting back in America judging your decisions is not on your level. You are making a badass bold choice that they could never be brave enough to make. 🆘🇺🇸 #creatorsearchinsights

The funny thing is you're starting at the hardest step, picking your dream country to live in. That mindset of where you want to live and if you could live there is the most difficult part of the process. I promise. Everything else is just taking boxes and getting paperwork and making sure you have all your ducks in a row to apply for the actual visa. The hardest part has always been the mindset. That's what most things, right? What you believe to be true will come true. As you decide a place and you are 100% sure that is the place, then you're going to go in and you'll probably have a great experience. But if you go in, him, me, and Haian, and oh, is this the right place that I make the right decision? There was this other choice maybe I should have chosen that. That's going to make it incredibly difficult to live in the present moment and enjoy your experience as you move abroad. I highly recommend making sure that your mindset of your choices are totally changeable and not to freak out that everything does not go perfectly. That way you can go in with an open mind and enjoy the experience. The people who are going to have the hardest time with moving abroad are the people who let other people's opinions infect their entire decision making process. Throughout the process of picking the country for someone to move to, my clients will say things that are definitely red flags. They'll say, "So-and-so told me this is true." Or they'll say, "Are I supposed to do it like this?" Or, "Don't I have to do it like that?" And these kinds of external factors that you bring into your decision making process can really screw things up. When you are moving abroad, it is not about fulfilling other people's expectations of you. It's about making sure that you're making the decision for yourself. That is why when you start to look at those people who are saying that they have to do something the certain way, those people tend to have less good experiences as they move abroad. That plays out with my clients. That plays out on this worldwide internet. I see people all the time telling what terrible experiences they had moving abroad and you can tell just by their explanations, even in the comment section of a video that they're the type of person that thought they had to do things a certain way. And then they did them and they were miserable because it didn't align with them personally. They don't know how to align something with them personally. They just align it with societal expectations, family expectations, the expectations of people like them. They think they have to match those behaviors of people like them in order to be happy. But that is not how you make life-changing decisions that will actually make you happy. You have to choose things because you want them and getting people in touch with that really does involve a lot of handholding and that's why exit planning is so important. I help clients understand that they are the most important factor in this decision. Not everything else, I'll tell them where they can go, but they should be choosing that based on their personal preferences, not on other people's outside influence into that decision.