“Qual·i·ty of life — the degree of enjoyment and satisfaction felt in everyday life.”
How to make healthy, wealthy and wise choices for living, loving, working, playing, investing and retiring in vacation communities.
An excerpt from Book Three in “The Knowledge Path Series” dedicated to helping you find the place of your dreams.
Follow your passions.
Why not?
Nobody can follow your passions for you.
Don’t stop there.
Choose to live anywhere you want.
“In wildness is the preservation of the world.” Henry David Thoreau.
The great thing about living where others spend their vacation is the year round quality-of-life.
In case you forgot just what that is …
“Qual·i·ty of life — the degree of enjoyment and satisfaction felt in everyday life.”
The West.
Live, love, work, play, invest and retire anywhere you want.
From the Desert to the Mountains to the Sea and all the Pristine Rivers, Lakes and Islands in Between.
Western Skies and Island Currents!
Winter in the mountains and summer at the beach.
The story of the Wild West celebrated a spirit of adventure.
Starting over with new beginnings full of promise.
Fueled by dreams of striking it rich.
We have a rich history of mining and panning for gold nuggets in the West.
Making a life based on ingenuity, resourcefulness and self-reliance.
Back then, whenever travelers met each other on the road, they swapped info about the places they came from and asked questions about places they were going.
But for us, every day we follow the rules.
Go to work.
Keep our nose to the grindstone.
Marry our sweet hearts.
Raise our children.
Save for their college education.
And, finally retire sometime off into the distant future to a glorious second half of our life.
That’s the way it’s supposed to be, but one day everything changed.
Employers shipped our jobs overseas.
We worked longer and longer in jobs we couldn’t stand.
But, at least we had a job.
But, the stress piled on.
And on.
Because of that we had to escape.
If only for a vacation.
There’s nothing quite as all-American as a road trip…
especially in the West, where a wealth of culture, natural beauty and excitement unfolds before you. 
What is it about traveling back to nature?
Where you feel most inspired?
Where the yellow aspen do that shimmering dance beside the deep green of the lodgepole pines.
But, there’s a dark side to vacations.
We notice our predicament when we return to work.
Are we who we really, really are when we keep our head down with our noses to the grindstone?
What about those expansive western skies?
The majestic mountain peaks?
The rushing babbling creeks and brooks?
The taste of salt in the air along the coast?
We keep those nagging questions at bay.
Maybe bubbling up only occasionally in dreamland.
Until finally we wake up and realize we don’t live in our bubble any longer.
We make a commitment to ourselves.
We can make healthy, wealthy and wise choices for living, loving, working, playing, investing and retiring in vacation communities.
Where we feel the most alive.
Steps:
(21) Spend the time to find the best places to live and invest. It will be worth your while. The great thing about living where others spend their vacation is the year round quality-of-life.