8 Essential Skills You Need to Become a Digital Nomad

What types of personal and professional knowledge are important in becoming a digital nomad? What types of skills should you focus on now to achieve success in your personal and professional remote life in the future? And finally, what is the one thing I wish I knew before I became a digital nomad?

I answer these questions in today's episode with eight critical skills you can work on acquiring or developing today, whether you work remotely and travel yet or not.  

I also explain why I chose each skill, what makes it important, and give a practical tip for how you can better cultivate or apply it in real life. 

WHAT YOU'LL LEARN:

• The 8 most important skills for success in the digital nomad lifestyle, whether you are a remote worker, freelancer, small business owner, entrepreneur, passive income nomad, or retiree. 
• The best way to communicate when you work remotely. 
• The Stoic practices that make life a lot easier and more pleasant. 
• Easy strategies for organizing your life. 
• My top tip for overcoming procrastination. 
• The one thing I wish I knew and the main thing I wish I had more of when I first became a digital nomad. 
• Why you don't need tech skills to become a digital nomad. 
• Why motivation and discipline don't matter as much as you think. 
• Supporting stories and anecdotes from life on the road. 

RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE

• Last Week's Podcast with Steve Rout on How to Live Your Best Life and Reinvent Yourself at Any Age
• Grammarly
• Hemingway App
• Book: Deep Work by Cal Newport
  • Find more recommended books in my Amazon Store: https://www.amazon.com/shop/travelingwithkristin 
• Jocko Wilink
• The Daily Stoic
• Meditation & journaling as a daily habit
  • Meditation Resources:
    • Podcast: How to Start a Meditation Habit
    • Podcast: Silent Meditation Course: Insights from Meditating for 100 Hours in 10 Days
    • Medium: "10 Lessons from 800 Days of Meditation"

Thank you to Brandon Bufe in my Facebook Group, Badass Digital Nomads, for submitting this question.

And thank you to KClarke in Australia for this week's featured review!

"Everything you want to know"

"Kristin is an amazing host. She has extensive experience as a veteran digital nomad. Her episodes really hone in on what aspiring digital nomads want to know (when you don’t know what you need to know!) and topics and challenges more relevant to veteran nomads. I get so excited when another episode comes out! Definitely check it out!" 

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