Move to Fiji
By Sean | August 7, 2008
Hi guys,
I was recently asked to write a book on how to move to Fiji. Having lived here for six years now, and having moved once before to another country, I can say that I have learned a lot about moving and living overseas.
It occurred to me that perhaps my knowledge and experience would be useful to others so I’ve been mulling this over in my mind and I thought the best thing I could do is mention it to the few people who have found this site and who may be interested in doing what I’ve done — or something similar.
So I’m just throwing this out for comments and feedback in case it turns out there is enough interest.
Thanks,
Sean
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The Power Of Visualization
By Sean | July 17, 2008
I’ve always tried to use visualization to help me focus on what I wanted. However it was just too difficult for me to visualize the ideal home, the ideal, income, the ideal everything. Too mammoth of a task — but I definitely needed to get the visual power of attraction working in my life to make this move.
So what I did was I reduced my millions of thoughts to the basics.
- I wanted to live in a natural (non-urban) tropical setting.
- I wanted to be warm, I wanted sunny weather,
- I wanted a warm ocean to dive in,
- I wanted to be able to surf, sail, fish, and most of all to look at the ocean from my home and walk or run on the beach.
- I wanted to have quick and easy access to diving and
- I wanted to breathe clean air and drink clean water and eat fresh tropical fruit every day.
In the end all the other details that made it so difficult for me to visualize what I wanted did not matter much.
I left the computer on 24/7. The screen saver was shuffling through those photos for me anytime of the day or night. Whenever I came within sight of that monitor my eyes were immediately drawn to the kind of beauty I love so much.
It was less than three years and I was on my way to Fiji. I’ve always had success when I could visualize what I wanted. It has always been hard for me to cut through the details and visualize the big things — and I think this screen saver trick has been the thing that was needed to feed the deeper “big picture” for my life.
The whole project was easy and fun — which I think is the way it should be. It made a great conversation piece. I seldom (if ever) told anyone why I was doing it.
Just click on the link below and check out this 6 minute video. It will show you everything you need to do to get the free software (no strings or spyware) and try it out for yourself!
http://www.seanwyseman.com/video/ScrnSv/ScrnSvr2.html
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Namosi Road
By Sean | June 17, 2008
This video should probably be two videos because they are different subjects and they are just kind of glued together. The first part is the result of a run-in a beautiful bird had with the glass doors on the ocean side of our home. Things quickly went from bad to worse as our two cats converged on the bird sitting stunned on the porch. I managed to run out and stop the cat who now had the bird in its mouth and was quite pleased with catching such a lovely prey. (Birds are undoubtedly a cats favorite catch)
However I love tropical birds a great deal more than I do the smug look of satisfaction my cats have when they catch a bird. Therefore this is not the first time I’ve rescued a bird from the jaws of our feline friends. I always give the cats lots of praise when one of them catches a rodent or a lizard. However they’ve learned that if I’m around that they must let me rescue the bird. The birds here are always colorful and very intriguing. There are no birds here that are plain looking like sparrows. In fact the nuisance bird in Fiji is the Myna bird. This is the kind of bird you pay a couple hundred or lots more from a pet store in America.
I don’t know the breed, species, or name of the bird in this video and I’m not enough of a bird freak to find out. All I know is that I’ve had a good many birds sit on my hand too stunned to fly or do much but sit there petrified of the creature holding it but too weak or numb to do anything about it without risking something worse.
Then the movie morphs into (well it doesn’t morph — it just fades out of one scene and you are suddenly half way up Namosi Road looking at a small river — or mountain stream — depeding on your frame of reference. We took a drive a couple days ago up to the top of a mountain pass, took a few pictures, and drove back down. The video will tell the story. Nothing noteworthy happened — just a beautiful drive through the rain forest to some breath taking scenery, shoot pictures of a couple trucks going by and back down again. Really just a look around the neighborhood. I started with an hour of footage and cut it all down to less than 10 minutes. Even then it’s a pretty lazy story — much like most of what happens in Fiji.
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Landslide Excavation
By Sean | May 24, 2008
Tropical Excitement comes in all forms. The latest for us was a small landslide after sustained moisture. Typical of April/May there is usually a protracted low pressure trough that comes through and reminds everyone that there is no limit to the amount of water than can fall from the sky.
In one week three years ago we had nine feet (108 inches/274 cm) in five days. We had a lot of flooding (not at our house — we live on a hilltop) in low lying areas here in Fiji.
So if excavation is interesting to you the video is only about 3 minutes long. I mean how much excavation can you take in one sitting?
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What the heck is MindMapping?
By Sean | April 11, 2008
Mind Mapping has been around for a long time. In fact about as long as people have been able to write in the sand with their fingers. However we’ve spent massive amounts of time conforming our planning to linear pages since the invention of paper and the greatest tool in the world for planning — the finger in the sand — method has been mostly lost till computer graphics have become increasingly flexible and inexpensive.
Since I’m not especially thrilling with words — just watch the video and see this great tool… better yet just find out where to download and how to install it and try it for yourself.
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The Video I Promised You
By Sean | March 28, 2008
Ok here is the video I promised on Asymmetrical Leverage. There is a lot more to this than meets the eye but you can clearly see the effects of it by watching this video. The only parameters that I’m changing are ones that increase or diminish the effects of asymmetrical leverage. Note that the entry and exit rules are the same regardless of how many changes I make to the money management parameters.
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What is Asymmetrical Leverage?
By Sean | March 22, 2008
Check out the audio message about Asymmetrical Leverage…
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Working From Your Home
By Sean | March 21, 2008
The most important thing about living in an idyllic paradise is to be able to pay for doing so. Many people have turned to trading the markets and I am one of them. Forex trading is my main source of income. Some people have others trade the markets for them and some trade their own account(s).
I do both for the sake of diversification and because I like to take breaks from trading. In this video I talk about the transition from trading part time while having a job and moving towards a full time income from trading.
I moved to the tropics first and was going to build a resort. In the end I decided to switch to full time trading so that I didn’t have the hassle of running a resort. Turned out to be a sound decision for many reasons but that is not what this is about.
Enjoy the video!
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Sean
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What to do first…
By Sean | March 7, 2008
Do you really want to retire with lots of money in the kind of place you dream about? Think about it… what exactly do you want? The first step in any major endeavor is to know what you want. There is no substitute for this step and without it the odds are you’ll never go beyond the dreaming stage. Read the rest of this entry »
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What do the Experts Know?
By Sean | March 6, 2008
The experts are telling me that I’m not supposed to use large pictures on my site header because it uses up too much space for my writing. But heck the same experts are also telling me my writing is anal. So why waste space typing stuff when a picture is worth a thousand words and the author is a literary disaster???
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This site is about getting a tropical life in some place far away from the pollution and rat race. So I’m mostly going to use video and tell pointless stories with hidden messages and maybe even some helpful but perhaps anal information for those who, like me, didn’t want the rat race anymore and would like some straight talk from someone who is already doing it. The above video is just a simple discovery that I made the other day when I needed to paint a light pole that was taller than my longest ladder.
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