By choice :) I am in Koh Phangan right now, where I come every year to fast for seven days. This annual detox retreat is my investment in my health (90% of our diseases come from our stomach/colon, so it's good to properly cleanse it every now and then). I've hardly been to see a doctor in the 9 years I've been doing this now.
In Chiang Mai I had such a busy social life (seriously, if your life is boring, go to Chiang Mai for a while...) that I got absolutely nothing done for my business (only for Dash).
Ideas started to form in my head, and I got a lot of input and connected with loads of people, but I didn't implement what I had on my to-do list (website stuff...). While I was enjoying my life there, I also felt a bit bad about not doing what I had planned to do.
But then I met a fellow digital nomad, who turned me on to Freeup.com - woah! Now I can't wait to outsource some of those tasks that I'm just not getting around to doing.
It's funny how sometimes you just don't connect the dots. I used to be a person people would outsource stuff to. I know this exists. I've been managing other people's online operations for years. And of course I've read Tim Ferriss' 4 Hour Workweek (almost 10 years ago...) But now, when it comes to my own business, it simply didn't occur to me to start doing the same on a small scale, and for little money.
Now on my island, I have been spending most of my days in a hammock, doing absolutely nothing.
Detoxing is about letting go. Of pretty much everything - whether it's junk in our guts ;) or old emotions, or old thinking patterns, and often you get epiphanies or really important new insights or clarity on things. I brought a book, but when you detox you're not really able to add information to your system, so even reading is too much.
So I've spent the past 6 days mostly with either a cat or a baby (of my friend's family) on my lap.
Also - big news - I'm not working with Dash Force anymore. Back in Berlin I might have been more upset or sad about this, especially since I was just gaining momentum and had my best month in February, but this bay here has some magical healing qualities and makes everything better fast.
If you want to get over a break-up, job-loss, big-life-transition-of-any-kind, come here! You'll get over it much faster :)
Everything seems less bad here and it always comes attached with a positive edge: If you lose something, it will make space for something better!
Maybe it's not good for my business to be attached to just one cryptocurrency? Who knows.
The weather has been mixed and we even had quite some thunderstorms in the past few days - The Sanctuary got flooded and they had to shovel away some beach sand so the water could flow into the sea. I missed all of that of course (the flood, not the rain), because I was peacefully lying in my hammock further inland. Which has a roof :)
Tomorrow I'll start eating again, and I've noticed I'm slowly getting back into work mode. I made a new friend here from Sydney, who feels the same, so we have been co-working today in a pretty place in the jungle. Well, everything is pretty and in the jungle here, but I didn't know this place yet.
So this is our view from the office today:
Who knows, this may mean that you will see more Steemit posts again from me, too, in the coming days :)
Have sunny day, wherever you are!
Anja
!steemitworldmap 9.6944451 lat 100.070477,16 long Had Thian Bay, The Sanctuary in Koh Phangan, Thailand D3SCR!
