Vision or Vanity?

Every business needs a vision, but not every entrepreneur has to be a visionary.

If you close your eyes and imagine where you would like your life to be in, say, 5 years, what might it look like?

Life in 5 Years

Each time I've done exactly that, what I see, where I imagine myself, is not in the front of my computer in my attic office!

In those daydreams, I've been on the prow of a speedboat, or laying on a bed of fur in a yurt, or cruising along the Amalfi Coast in a vintage convertible,  big bug-eyed sunglasses and a flowery scarf billowing behind me, Audrey Hepburn Style.

Where The Future Takes Us

This is where I imagine my future will take me. But these aren't one-off holidays - a few days hiatus between long spells of air-conditioned offices - No. 

The overwhelming feeling I've had in all these flights of fancy has been that these are high points of everyday life. 

Freedom of self-employment has allowed me to live a nomadic lifestyle.

This is the vision for my business. The vision for our life.

What's stopping this from being my life right now?

Is It Vanity?

This is where I find myself thinking of it as just 'vanity'. 

I can't only think of myself, I have a husband and a mortgage. A husband in a full-time office based job which pays that mortgage!

The thing that stops this being my reality is my responsibility to my life partner, in all things.

The challenge therefore, is to find a way to be true to both.

Is it Vision?

Writing about the 'vision' for my business is the first step to making these changes.

The first steps towards creating a reality that suits both of us.

Being Blogger

Blogging has served me well as a means to an end, doing the thing I'll do anyway... writing.

I started my first blog in 2013, the year I published my first book, when my worlds as an author and business advisor collided in 2015, I started my consultancy business. 

That has since evolved into Learn To Love Your Words and my specialty is as a blogging mentor for business.

Building my marketing around content was the obvious solution. 

The first blog was about becoming an author - I still keep this blog on my author website.

The second blog was to grow my influence as a writing mentor and build a business.

This (third blog!) is about challenging my reality and sharing my love of travelling.

I have an innate curiosity. I love exploring and discovery. I love meeting new people and having new experiences.

I want to discover more of this amazing, diverse and fascinating planet we inhabit.

Life's Little Luxuries

However, I also enjoy a little luxury! 

I don't mean traveling 5-star, I mean not living out of a backpack and sleeping in bug infested hovels.

I mean travelling, but maintaining a comfortable life. Earning enough money to enjoy eating and drinking out, Cafe Culture and sleeping in a comfortable - private - bedroom.

Being able to enjoy the trappings of travel, as well as living with the locals.

I would hate to travel to a once in a lifetime place and not be able to afford the entrance fee!

Perhaps this blog will turn out to be an experiment in vanity? 

Or perhaps I'll achieve the vision of location independence - of being a Wandering Entrepreneur,  a Roaming Entrepreneur? 

In the end, it doesn't matter, as long as the journey is enjoyable!

Say Hello to a Roaming Entrepreneur!

Enter, a new chapter in my blog journey...

Since starting this original blog back in 2013, it's changed and evolved.

Originally, it was 'Idea-ism' - suffering the syndrome of too many ideas!

Later, I used it exclusively for my writing blog, having published my fiction novels as Amy C Fitzjohn. It was connected to that website. 

Now I have a writing blog as part of my Amy C Fitzjohn webiste, this one can evolve once more...

I dream of being location independant. 

To be able to live, work and travel around the world. 

The ultimate freedom. The ultimate escape.

My husband, Graham, and I try to travel as much as we can, but are restricted by his full time job in the UK, and my business, which currently does most of it's work in the South West region of England.

We've lived abroad (Bulgaria - you'll read about that on here!), we've trvelled to many places - cities in particular - and we now live in the city of Bristol.

Bristol is a city we love, we will always keep a home here, we will always come back here, but that doesn't weaken my wanderlust instincts!

I dream of building my business to a point where it can sustain us both and allow us the freedom to make choices. To live, work and explore with purpose.

Say hello to a 'Roaming Entrepreneur'!