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5.0 out of 5 starsDreaming Saving Doing at 60!
Reviewed in the United States on March 3, 2013
This is an inspirational book! No doubt about it! From the moment I picked it up I knew I was in the presence of "kindred souls," people who love to travel like I do and always have.
When you are a true traveler, you just know it. There is an excitement that exudes when you are discussing foreign places, food, museums, art, architecture, nature, hearing foreign languages. I have been fortunate to travel extensively throughout Europe, So. America, and even Around the World in my mid-twenties over the "Hippy Trail" in an Overlander bus filled with foreigners. I felt at home. But that was then, and this is now, OR SO I THOUGHT until I starting reading further. True, the Talbots are still young, creative, able to travel the world and still find a way to sustain themselves no matter where life takes them. But what they show very clearly throughout the book is that I CAN TOO! I realized that my limitations are self-imposed and I can re-think, re-imagine and, re-create them.
Since reading Dream Save Do I have started to embrace a much more minimalist lifestyle. I actually love it! It suits me! Getting rid of things is freeing, just like they said it could be. Even cherished art pieces (colorful masks and exotic crosses collected from all over the world) can and will find a home. What I desire at this point in time is to collect memories, not things. I have started to track my spending, have found ways to cut expenses, looked into TESL/TEFL programs, researched housesitting opportunities, and let my mind really start to dream! I can and will use more of their ideas and action steps to plan my next DREAM journey in full colorful "dream porn" detail (I can hear Betsy and Warren laugh as they coined that phrase), SAVE for it (despite the odds, the economy, real estate bubbles popping, my age, my perceived expectations of what so many friends/family/colleagues have for me, and just DO it!
A favorite quote from the book, "Remember that this dream is the desire of your higher self, the one who wants to live an extraordinary life, and you'll constantly be doing battle with your lower self who simply wants immediate gratification. You have to say "no" to fleeting desires to be able to say "yes" to the important ones." I am forever thankful for their wise words!
