Initially when we used to plan our lives we used to think we needed to wait until we have enough money to be able to move to our dream place, otherwise how would we be able to survive? Ever since we started traveling we wanted to leave Dubai, move to an island, work remotely and start building our hotel. In our heads, to achieve that, we clearly needed much more money than what we had on our bank account. We were depending our regular jobs in order to save enough money and depending on others instead of betting on our happiness and trusting our skills.

In the past years, Dano and I have been learning many new skills that could earn us a living everywhere in the world but we were unsure of how we'd be able to monetize it all, so we just kept postponing our happiness. We had a certain amount in mind that without it we used to think it would be impossible for us to make the move.

Now you must be thinking, well easy for them to say this, they must have made so much money in Dubai so they don’t really need to worry about anything now. Unfortunately, that is far from true. We made okay money in Dubai but also, we spent a lot on travels and on Dubai expenses. Dubai is far from cheap and live can get pretty expensive. When you start a travel blog you need to be traveling constantly so most of our money went to that.

Until...  One day we decided to invest in our ourselves , booked a flight to Bali and did a coding bootcamp Institute of Code and that changed it all. We didn't just learn other skills but we were surrounded by like-minded people that were doing exactly what we wanted to do and did not necessarily have huge backups in their bank account.

When the bootcamps finished, we went back to Dubai quit our jobs and planned our move to Bali. 

We did not move to Bali with a bank account you’d envy but just enough to survive a couple of months and have all the pressure in the world to make it work NOW.