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Featured, Wellness / 23.03.2020
A Guide To Surviving The Times: Staying Positive During Coronavirus Pandemic (COVID-series)
To assist you – either practically, in an inspiring way, or maybe in a lighthearted just-to-put-a-smile-on-your-face kind of way, we’ve put together a little guide to survive these testing and uncertain times. ...
BE INSPIRED, Creativity, Featured, Wellness / 29.04.2018
69 Lessons Learned After Traveling To The Moon
Last week we reached a ridiculous, we-still-cannot-fathom-it milestone. Whilst flying over Vienna during our South-Africa-to-Amsterdam flight, we clocked over 384,400km traveled since leaving home originally on March 2nd 2015. It seems like a random number, but according to science, 384,400km (238,855 miles) is the exact distance between the Earth and the Moon. Travel goals for a couple who left home to see how far from home they could go?! Umm, YES! It’s taken us 3 years and 7 weeks to reach the moon. Sure, NASA or SpaceX could do it quicker, but would they have as many memories as us?! And would they have learned as much as us? Ok...
BE INSPIRED, Featured, Wellness / 03.03.2018
Practicing Minimalism: A Guide From Two Full-Time Travellers
This week’s post’s goal is to inspire a little minimalism. Although we don’t shout it from the rooftops, we are huge advocates for living a simple, yet meaningful life. Since having our epiphany and giving up our work-hard-to-buy-stuff-and-then-buy-more-stuff life back in Johannesburg, to live a save-save-save-then-spend-on-experiences kind of life, we’ve had to adjust, and I mean really adjust. Besides the obvious things like furniture and house cleaning goods (because, well, we simply have no house for them), there are a few things we have actively and voluntarily removed from our lives, simply because we find no use for them anymore. So whether you’re living a 9-to-5 life like we used to, or you yourself are a full time traveller, we hope this...
BE INSPIRED, Creativity, Entrepreneurship, Featured, Wellness / 15.02.2016
We’ve Discovered The Cure For Creative Block
As originally seen on cerebra.co.za in a guest post. The creative process is an interesting thing. Everyone has their own methodologies, their own banks they visit for inspiration, and their own preferred times of day to get in the zone. Yet, as creative beings, we are all driven by this need to create; this need to make a mark and take what is in our head and put it out into the world. And, wow, it's amazing when it happens. Whether it's a new song we’ve written, a new move we've mastered, or new illustration style we've created. It's surreal when we see it come to life. Sometimes, however, we hit a rut. We get stuck and we don't feel the inspiration we...
BE INSPIRED, Creativity, Featured, Love, Wellness / 09.02.2016
How To Spend 24-7-365 With Someone
Something different from our usual posts...
BE INSPIRED, Creativity, Featured, Wellness / 01.10.2015
How Living Like A Dog, Can Make You A Better Human
When planning a sabbatical, people often speak of "enlightenment" and traveling to "find themselves". In our case, we've been looking for creative inspiration and a chance to experiment. So let's experiment with a funny thought. Imagine for a second that you are a dog. I know what you're thinking...
BE INSPIRED, Creativity, Entrepreneurship, Featured, Wellness / 31.08.2015
Why We Quit Our Jobs In Advertising To Scrub Toilets
After being gone exactly 6 months, I feel it necessary we share the uglier side of our trip. Browsing through our blog posts and Instagram feed, it seems like we're having the time of our lives. And don't get me wrong – we are. It's bloody amazing. But it's not all ice-creams in the sun and pretty landscapes. Noooooo. So far, I think we've tallied 135 toilets scrubbed, 250 kilos of cow dung spread, 2 tons of rocks shovelled, 60 metres of pathway laid, 57 beds made, and I cannot even remember how many wine glasses we've polished. You see, to come from the luxuries we left behind in Johannesburg, to the brutal truth of volunteer work, we are now on the opposite end...
BE INSPIRED, Creativity, Entrepreneurship, Featured, Love, Wellness / 11.07.2015
What Unplugging From The Internet For 30 Days Taught Me
Before embarking on our journey, we created our Wanderlist. It's our list of wishes and needs, and the reasons why we quit our jobs in the first place. It's a list we worked on together, and decided to use as a guide for our sabbatical. Most recently, we decided to tick off number 37: "go unplugged for a month". After nearly 15 years of daily digital interactions, we saw it as therapy (and an experiment) to go one solid month without social media, blogging, fancy applications, or the Internet. We allowed ourselves to stay 100% in each moment, and use tech only for creation i.e. cameras for photo taking, iPad for eBook reading and note taking, and our laptop for illustration,...
BE INSPIRED, Creativity, Entrepreneurship, Featured, Love / 19.03.2015
How Quitting Your 9-To-5 Leads To Planning A 7-To-9
It's been 3 weeks since we left sunny South Africa, and based on popular beliefs, new habits should have formed by now. The get-up-early-to-get-cracking-with-the-day routine of everyday life should be all but a distant memory. On the contrary, we are on a very strict schedule - those who know me will understand my need for structure (and my love for schedules). Sure, we're no longer waking up to an annoying alarm, but rather allowing our natural sleep cycle to function on its own; and leaving our house doesn't involve long, painful sessions in the morning traffic; but our get-up-early-and-get-to-work habit definitely hasn't gone anywhere. When planning our journey, we spent a lot of time referencing the Godfather of creative sabbaticals, and the...
