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The Essential Location Independent & Digital Nomad Survey

Fresh off the heels of my last post on negotiating remote work agreements, what I’m about to share could not have come at a better time – both for you, and the entire community.

Amidst the hustle, focus and ingenuity behind creating your muse – your passive income stream – it’s all too easy to lose sight of the driving motive that set you down that path in the first place: independence. Muselife, above all else, exists to transform passion into the income which fuels your lifestyle and experiences. It’s one thing to know why location independence and financial self-sufficiency matters – it’s another thing entirely to actually make it happen. As is always the case when taking the road less traveled, it’s also easy to feel you’re alone in your ambitions, particularly when everyone around you are simply living towards retirement and content with someone else owning their freedom.

Now is the perfect time to say it: you are anything but alone in your pursuit. Not only is there a rapidly growing movement towards ultramobility and living for your passions – but there’s also a thriving set of entrepreneurs that have achieved the new rich lifestyle, and freely share what they’ve learned along the way.

For the first time ever, we’re taking the pulse of this movement and community, and intend to share it all with you. Corbett Barr of Free Pursuits and Jonathan & Lea Woodward of Location Independent have tightly orchestrated a simple survey and it’s time to add your voice. You don’t have to already be location independent to participate. It’s enough to simply know you need to escape your job, travel unencumbered, and turn passion into income. Muselife is in good company on this one, spreading the buzz alongside 18 other exceptional lifestyle design blogs.

Take me to the survey on FreePursuits.com ›

You’ll see the results of this once the response reaches a healthy tipping point, so this is not something you want to miss.

Photo: Embracing my location independence over Budapest, 2008

The Pulse of the Musemakers

Over the past few weeks, I’ve received an impressive response to a survey of your current muse creation progress and pain points. Overall, the majority of you are forging ahead with your muse concepts, obstacles be damned. It says much for our community and your committment to achieving the new rich lifestyle at all costs.

What follows is a glimpse into the minds and progress of your fellow musemakers. After the video, I’ve included a number of excerpts from the qualitative comments and opinions that were included in the survey response.

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Muse Questionairre

Update: Some results of this survey have been posted.

Over the past few months, I’ve done a significant amount of work developing resources, tools and systems for highly systematic muse creation. I’d like to start sharing these with others and I’m interested to know what you’d get the most value from.

Below is a survey. All questions are entirely optional and even answering a few is helpful. The last question will ask for any thoughts or frustrations you have and what you’d like help with. I will read any and all responses, in full, so feel free to vent and share.

This is entirely anonymous, but if you want to add contact details I will get in touch. Feel free to comment as well.

Click the button below to see the survey…

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