10 Lessons That Reinvented My Life After Traveling The World For 2 Years

Nothing was the same after.

I wouldn’t be where I am today if it wasn’t for a risk I took right after college.

It was 2009 and I was 21. I planned to work in finance, but with the economic collapse, I decided to teach English in South Korea before coming back and hunting for jobs when things improved.

But when I finally returned—2 years later—my life and my goals transformed.

Every day forced me to learn, grow, and reject what thought I wanted for what I really did. And while I didn’t leave to “find myself,” it did separate me from old environments and habits to see things with fresh eyes.

Here are the 10 biggest lessons I learned. They might transform your life, no plane ticket required:

Growing up, I was always taught to make a lot of money, save it, and retire with enough to last the rest of my life.

But once I moved abroad, I realized how little money I actually needed to enjoy a great life. For example, when I lived in Taipei, I made roughly US$16/hour in cash, worked 11 hours a week, and had more-than-enough money to enjoy a full and fun life. (Sure, cities like Sydney and London are super expensive, but I managed to survive in both as well.)

The more we feed the mindset that we need a lot of money to “enjoy life,” the more trapped we become. After all, how much of what we buy do we actually need? How much of our lives are used to make money just to buy things that aren’t even important to us? How much of the greatest pleasures in life are absolutely free?

I'm not saying you should be poor or that money is “the root of all evil”—far from it. Money is very important and can be used for a lot of good.

But I think a lot of people get caught up in making money just to make money rather than actually asking themselves what kind of life they want to live and how much money it would really take to do that.

They might find out they don’t need as much as they thought.

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