Walking in Courageous Trust: April 2014

Wednesday, April 23, 2014

Are You A Flexpat?

There is another new breed surfacing as more people drop the traditional lifestyle models and take on new and exciting ways to live cheaply that allow travel to many exciting and exotic locations.

Get Your Kicks on Route 66

An article over at Trusted Housesitters describes the new "Flexpat" trend,
you can read more here

Top 5 benefits of a Flexpat Lifestyle:

1.   Experiencing a range of cultures and lifestyles
2.   Meeting new people and creating lasting relationships worldwide
3.   Excitement and adventure
4.   Flexibility to try different ways of living
5.   Less financial commitment than owning property

Guess after two years with no fixed address I can most certainly add Flexpat as my lifestyle status!

http://blog.trustedhousesitters.com/flexpat-lifestyle/

Friday, April 18, 2014

An Old Cat Can Learn New Tricks!

Housesitters have to be great problem solvers. CatNap (my pet name for her because she sleeps 23.5 hours out of 24) has reached the grand old age of 17 and has become very forgetful. She forgets to go outside and wee, because she is getting beaten up by the new young guns of the neighbourhood and would just not use the litter tray no matter how much Dr Googling and how many tricks I tried.

So a new place had to be found so she could be outside at night. Not easy because she is so little she can escape through most small gaps and is so sprightly she can still jump higher than a cat ten years her junior. She has ended up in her Dad's blue tool shed, right beside the Dawg Hilton so her doggie bro & sis can bark at any maurading interlopers and keep the garden safe for her. I managed to find her a lovely soft mohair rug, special basket and her big sis is out buying her a special little cover to keep her warm out in Cell Block Blue.

Weirdest thing - she will use the litter box in the shed! She is making the most of being on the bed during the day and we figure she will eventually forget she used to sleep inside on the bed at night! I guess an old cat can learn new tricks!

I hope I find a "sitter" who will look me as well when I get that forgetful :-)

Monday, April 14, 2014

My Part Time Pets on Video

So True!

I do believe some of my part time pets contributed to the script!

Post by PreventDisease.com.

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There's Still More For Me

I’ve believed for some time that there was more for me. Now I am hell bent on finding all there is within and walking that path in courageous trust.

This journey began over ten years ago. Luckily it began from the safety of a drafty but solid little house in the country with the roses and lavender steadily flowering each summer for ten years.

But all changed when I attended some high end training in New York. At the end of that event, I knew my life as I knew it was over.

There was still more for me.

When I walked back through the gate, jetlagged from the 24 hour direct flight back to Australia, exhilarated on one hand but completely destroyed inside at the prospect of what I was walking back into.

My Cute House in the idyllic town tourists spend thousands of dollars to visit each weekend had to go. In fact, by the time I reached the front door, I pretty much knew everything I owned needed to go.

It was time to courageously step from one dream, up into the next and continue to walk my truth on a yet signposted path.

Back in 2001 I did a similar leap and that first phase of the dream took its toll on my mind, body and soul. I left my corporate job as a forensic business analyst for very large corporations to set up a small business.

Years of big business training didn’t set me up for the reality of running a small business. Without the generous resources of the big end of town, pretty soon everything went pear shaped. There I was in a strange town, no contacts, no furniture and nothing to hide behind. I was also under-prepared to step up and sell myself as a coach and personal mentor.

I froze emotionally, spiritually and physically during the first few years of the new experience.

During the tough times of my conversion from big business to small business I had re-mortgaged my house.

To all intents and purposes, as others looked in they saw me "living the dreams". But owning an over stretched destination was doing nothing for my journey. It became a drain on every part of my existence.

The real estate market was at its worst point and the house needed severe restoration. I most certainly didn’t have the time, money or resources to fix it up. I was in the classic catch 22. Everyone said I’d never sell it in the current market.

My response was that I would trust something would happen to make everything right. Without it ever going on the market, I sold the house for what was owing on it, and whats more everything was done and dusted in three months.

To stand and watch my two dearest friends grab anything they could get their hands on, drag it out onto the lawn and then sell the lot off for a dollar or fifty cents, was pretty heart breaking. I was totally numb inside, but I knew it had to be done for the next phase of my dream to be given the space to manifest.

Now I find myself on a similar journey, this time with no structure at all, walking in courageous trust, house sitting around the world, proving to myself more than anyone else that I only need a laptop and a wifi connection to work.

To date its working.......................

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