Replying to @nicolegarman5 You don’t need a remote job to become a digital nomad. Creating remote income is entirely within your control. The barrier you have to cross in order to create remote income is doing things you have never done. A lot of people struggle with the embarrassment of visibility or putting themselves out there in order to get clients. But, in order to create something you’ve never had before, you must do things you’ve never done before. In most cases people simply refuse to do countless things that could earn them remote income. That’s fine to have preferences on what you do, but if you refuse to do everything, you should stop claiming you want to become a digital nomad. 🆘🇺🇸 #TikTokEncyclopediaContest
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I think there's a lot of confusion about what a digital nomad is and isn't. A digital nomad isn't just somebody who has a remote job and is able to move abroad. A digital nomad can also be somebody that earns money remotely based on their own entrepreneurial endeavors. And this is a very important distinction because that is fully within your control. I know a lot of people think that they can't become a digital nomad because they can't get a remote job and that's somehow an obstacle for them. But if you take that power back and say it's not even about getting someone to hire me in a remote position. It's about creating my own income. It changes the game entirely. Creating your own remote income can be everything from becoming an affiliate for other people's products. Teaching eCourses, becoming a content creator, becoming an author even. Anything that you can do to earn money remotely makes you eligible to be a digital nomad. So you can start to analyze what are your skills. And I've got some videos about how people like front desk workers at a hotel, waitresses, construction workers, car salesmen can all take the skills that they have learned in their profession and apply it to creating remote income because it is not about getting hired somewhere. It's all about creating income and that comes from selling something valuable and you have skills to sell something valuable. Everybody does over the years of my time living abroad. I have done many different things remotely in order to earn income. When I first moved abroad, I was a network marketer. I sold a physical product that was dropped shipped from a warehouse. I also became a travel agent. I also started writing a blog and earning ad revenue and affiliate revenue from that blog. I created an eCourses about minimalism because I was a minimalist so I used my knowledge and packaged that into a digital product. And now I'm doing content creation and selling services to people abroad about my knowledge about moving abroad for these last five years. So there are numerous different avenues that you can take and package what you know and what you're good at in order to make money. One of the things I hear a lot is that people don't want to do what's required in order to make money digitally. And that's a problem because you are going to need to do things that you've never done before in order to earn money in a way that you've never earned before. So there will not be someone signing your paychecks and making sure you have a guaranteed income, which is not guaranteed at all anymore with layoffs and all the corporate crap that goes on. You are in control of your income and that does mean pushing your boundaries and if you're unwilling to do that then maybe you don't want to become someone who has the ability to move abroad and have location independence. You're just saying that on the internet that you aren't willing to actually take any actions towards that. But becoming a digital nomad is 100% within your control and there are active things that you can do to change how you're earning income so that you can move abroad. [BLANK_AUDIO]
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