Work-life balance
Business, Musings Francesco Perego Business, Musings Francesco Perego

Work-life balance

One thing I’ve been considering lately is whether I should increase my work hours or not. The concept of work-life balance is popular among employees, but it’s quite a different thing when you are self-employed and have to choose how much and what kind of work to take - as it’s easy to do too much and then end up burnt-out.

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Digital nomads
Musings, Work Francesco Perego Musings, Work Francesco Perego

Digital nomads

It is on days like today that I would like to be a digital nomad, to continue enjoying this streak of clear, sunny weather we are having...but instead we had to come back to go to work in our physical locations.

Not that being a digital nomad isn't without its disadvantages…

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Incremental improvements
Musings, Business Francesco Perego Musings, Business Francesco Perego

Incremental improvements

Another thing we saw on ‘A new life in the sun - Where are they now’ is how some of the more entrepreneurial people were able to expand their businesses by taking on more projects as their initial idea succeeded - for example, a couple invested the money they earned with their restaurant by buying a condo to renovate it and rent it.

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Random thoughts on owning a business
Musings, Business Francesco Perego Musings, Business Francesco Perego

Random thoughts on owning a business

We watched a few episodes of ‘A new place in the sun - Where are they now’ while in the UK, resting on the couch after a day of walking on the Dales Way. I like this show as we too have a dream of having a place of our own at some point, somewhere more rural than where we live and have grown up in - and to have some sort of passive (as well as active) income from it.

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Dales Way completed
Walking trip, Musings Francesco Perego Walking trip, Musings Francesco Perego

Dales Way completed

It’s a strange feeling - for the last few days our routine has been to wake up, walk and find spots to take a break and eat something while going to the next step of the journey, which we found to be rather freeing: the task was clear, the reward immediate, the end in sight - not something that happens very often in regular life.

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The doorstep mile
Adventure, Musings Francesco Perego Adventure, Musings Francesco Perego

The doorstep mile

If you’ve never heard of Alastair Humphreys, check him out. He’s an adventurer that came up with / popularized a number of interesting concepts, and one of my favourite goes by the name of ‘the doorstep mile’ …

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Rites of passage
Trail running, Musings Francesco Perego Trail running, Musings Francesco Perego

Rites of passage

It’s been said by many thinkers of this era that our western society’s lack of proper rites of passage is a great detriment to our personal development, that we need to be challenged in physical ways, to ‘reintroduce the metaphorical tigers’ in our lives - and I very much agree with this

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