Start Small , Start Now !
THIS IS SO RIDICULOUS . Trish starts off the conversation :
TRISH : So , many of our ideas are ridiculous , but when they come to pass , it ’ s a feeling of WOW , we ’ re so glad we did it . Have you ever wondered what it would be to leave “ normal ”, travel the world or follow your dreams ? How about sail the ocean ? Live in a different country every year or serve your life ’ s purpose through a mission trip ?
During this walk down memory lane , we ask what did we learn ? How on earth did we even get ourselves into a trailer and what are the outcomes ? So if you have any interest whatsoever in doing some great , big , hairy , audacious travel with your family or with your spouse or solo travel … let ’ s get behind the wheel .
MARC : We always start out with a question about the timeline . If it wasn ’ t , we ’ re going to live in Spain for a year , it was we ’ re going to sail around the world for a year . And these were all things that we still plan on doing , but all of them had one thing in common and it wasn ’ t now , it was later . And in some cases , 10 years later , in other cases , it was five years later . Then finally we figured out we could do it in three years . When you make the decision to go after your dream three years just isn ’ t soon enough . So , we started having conversations about how to make this happen sooner .
This is what I love about you . This is what I love about our relationship .
I LOVE THAT WE ARE ALWAYS IN A CONVERSATION .
WHAT IS GOING ON ? WHAT ARE WE UP TO ? If you ’ re asking yourself that question , what are you up to , you ’ re going to find out some really great stuff . You ’ re either going to find out , you want to do more , you ’ re happy with this or you ’ re ready to explore that . But sometimes you ’ re going to find out that you need to compromise . You need to figure out what you can do now in order to get where you want to be .
We had these ideas of this big trawler boat . We could do that in 20 years or maybe 15 . Then maybe we can sail . But we discovered we couldn ’ t do that because we needed WIFI . Then it was just taking a step and a step and a step . Although it seemed like it was backwards , it was actually springing us forward . As soon as we made that leap and made that decision , we set a date , we started minimizing all of our expenses . We started maximizing our company and figuring out how we ’ re going to make money on the road . We got down to it .
We have a background of going big . So dream big make it happen , no compromise type of stuff . But one of the recurring themes that started showing up were all these people who were making it happen . Making it happen now . They weren ’ t doing what we wanted to do . They didn ’ t have the same resources and they didn ’ t have the same time frame and they didn ’ t have the things that we had – but they were doing it . So it really hit home when we were thinking , what can we do now and how , and what compromises do we want to make ? Then of course , because it ’ s Trish and I , we way over compensated .
TRISH : We were so committed to go and try something that we literally had a tent , an army commando tent . We were just going to stay at national parks for the summer . Let me tell you something right now .