Top 10 Lifestyle Design Blogs
Lifestyle design is all about living the good life (or the life you want) now, without being retired or rich. It's about getting what you want, following your dreams. In the words of best-selling lifestyle design expert and best-selling author Tim Ferriss: you can have it all.
Chris Guillebeau's blog covers personal development and life planning, unconventional work, and international travel. Make sure to check out "Why You Should Quit Your Job and Travel Around the World" and "The Flip Side of Self-Employment and Freedom."
Free Pursuits is written by a "former corporate ladder climber" who is now self-employed and splits his time between San Francisco and the beaches of Mexico. He explains what lifestyle design is and has a post called "How to Get Past 'Where Do I Start?'"
The Blog of Author Tim Ferriss: Experiments in Lifestyle Design
This blog accompanies the book that made the term "lifestyle design" famous, The 4-Hour Workweek. But the blog is full of new content, including posts on "How to Create Your Own Real-World MBA" and "Relax Like a Pro: 5 Steps to Hacking Your Sleep."
Location Independent Professionals
This blog focuses on the nitty-gritty of revamping your career to make it more flexible, with posts like "6 Things You Must Do Before You Leave the Rat Race, Set Up Your Own Business and Become Location Independent" and "Putting Together a Portable Office That You Can Take With You Anywhere You Go in the World."
The authors of this blog are a couple with a two-year-old daughter, testing out ideas from The 4-Hour Workweek to see how they fit into family life. They write about experiences with virtual assistants and early attempts at working remote.
Like the authors of The Newly Rich, the authors of The Life Design Project put lifestyle design concepts to the test in the real world.
More lifestyle design concepts, tested in real life. Eric, currently employed as a CPA, tries out virtual assistants, passive income experiments and sites, and more.
Though Life Optimizer is not solely focused on escaping the corporate world, there are lots of lifestyle design posts here--check out passive income resources and the group of posts on working and work environment.
Focusing on "muse creation, personal outsourcing, ultramobility and the new rich lifestyle," the author of this blog makes and posts videos packed with lifestyle design advice, interviewing entrepreneurs and getting their best tips.
Check out their video introduction to the work-anywhere lifestyle, and, for recent grads, a student's guide to mastering the universe.
What's your favorite lifestyle design blog or author?
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