Why cynic like Bob Will Always haters are and how you prove false

Why cynic like Bob Will Always haters are and how you prove false -

Remember last month when I wrote about Jessica and how they never to Ireland get? No? Read more about it here and then come back. I'll wait ... OK, now that you're back, I would like to meet someone like you - we call it, you are different people, but they are two sides of the same coin "Bob.". While Jessica not travel because they will be held back by the marketing travel industry, Bob's our resident travel naysayers and held back by his own cynicism

Bob (I changed his name -. Both here and in his original comment) came to my attention when he replied to my blog post about how I make money and afford to travel. He wrote:

I love this - "Anyone can do it" ... Then we found he was able to save $ 20,000 for its first flight. Most of us pay student loans while juggling rent from. See, people? There is always more to him - former high-paying job or lived with his parents were able to save money gift from parents, teaching English abroad, fired or laid off, took a trip, in the right place at the right time and got hospitality job or doctrine or gardening job. It's all very individually. There is no formula, which is why no one comes out and says. They want you to buy something. This site does not seem so big / popular enough to generate enough money to fly 25 times / year. My niece has a larger blog than this. [Matt’s comment: OUCH!!!] Like I said, everyone seems to be happy. There is always more to offer than anyone let on. I have been to 20 countries, but that's because I had rich friends / lovers and wealthy parents. I once had a job that I took places. See? I said it. That is honest. No expensive books w / secret. I try not to sound good or as I now something because I do not sell.

I do not know Bob personally. He's probably a nice guy, and I'm not here to pick on him; I just want to discuss his line of thinking, because I think that it is divided by far too many. out people like Bob assumes that someone must have first a kind helping hand that be so easy not to travel, to save money, as I seem to do it - and that I and others like me, are here only quickly make Buck through a pipe dream sale

Why Bob is a nice guy, but completely wrong

Jessica will never go to Ireland - not because they can not believe , but because it never puts the travel industry in break out of the mold. on the other hand, people like Bob could travel far and wide, but will never believe it is possible to do so without a lot of money. I call this the Sarah Palin syndrome that I have defined as:

"The persistent belief that only those who can help make parents or upper class upbringing with means a travel undertaking for any sustained start time, because ordinary people have too many bills, loans, debts or obligations to travel. "

I have designated it as such, because while running for Vice President of the United States, Sarah Palin said" I can not be one of those am that from the background was, you know, children who graduate to give perhaps college and their parents give them a passport and give them a backpack and go and travel around the world. No, I have worked all my life. In fact, I usually had two jobs all my life until I had children. I was not a part of this culture. "

Why are people like Bob wrong? has
First adopted Bob that I could afford only with the help of my original travel from my parents. This goes to the heart of Sarah Palin's syndrome: the assumption that you need a lot of money (either by a good job or helpful parents) get going, and that if you do not start with a fair amount of savings that can you 't travel. In his follow-up email, Bob told me:

I have lived in the South End. A $ 30,000 salary, in a city like Boston, especially w / school loans, does not produce $ 20,000 savings in three years. That math does not exist, pal ... unless you w / your parents live.

However, as I have already noted, the math to work on this type of content. I wrote a list of 20 months ways drastically can cut costs. These are exactly 20 tips that I used before I went traveling. It is pretty easy to save 33% of your salary if you are completely on your goal.

I think that people like Bob do not think it is possible to save money in such a hyper-consumer society. But it is. Because if you buy crap stop your bank account goes way up. I lived like a beggar and made my salary to work. And I've always said that I lived with my parents for the last six months before my first trip.

Second, Bob assumes that you can not do this while wearing outstanding debt. I'll just show my students to balance loans that I have ever paid for since I left 6 years before my MBA program. Take a look at how much I still owe .:

with debt Travel is possible , if you are your money wisely I made sure my to cover costs before I went away and put aside money to cover my loan

But the main thrust was in his argument Bob this. I am a lie to sell. Bob wrote me this after he posted his comment:

Hey, Matt - This is an answer to your About Me page. Why would anyone not everyone say how they do it? These hikers in Thailand told you how. Why can not you just share what they shared for free? Everyone wants to keep some mystery or to say, "Just decide" fully good to know the average person can not just up and leave or do not know how. You save just enough, if you arrive a flight hectic camp, hostel, look for jobs as gardeners, network? Is that it? Once the bit you have saved is gone, how to generate enough to eat and to live on? No matter how cheap it is, you must do something to generate money for food and hostels trains and airplanes. What is it that people do? Did I think it's right? Teaching English, hustle, taking odd jobs, gardening, Tutor? Can you just be real, honest and upfront? This is much more helpful than just saying: ". Look what I can do"

In response to my experience with these backpackers in Thailand, Bob shown, but that he had looked at my side clearly saw only what he wanted to see, because I all his questions answered in previous posts and have always been in advance of the practical nature of this page. But then he figured it out:

There is no secret or a book requires. All someone to say / do is exactly what I communicated very short. All you need is $ 2,000 to make stay compounds for a first trip and week. It is even cheaper from there. Once you take a trip, go for a teaching job or hospitality, hectic, network. The more you do, the more things unfold. This is the secret for most things. Just start. Figure rest from as you go.

Bob, I agree. Only the jump Here are all the times I've done that myself it .:

Why there is never a perfect time
to travel As you [yourtriptoovercomefears
Everyone says I'm running away
There is no secret, Long-term travel
Oh! The Amazing Places you go be

This is not about Bob - it's about cynicism

The world is full of cynics. The world is full of people that you want to get down. Anyone who knows for more than five minutes, that has lived. People like Bob simply believe that it is impossible to do, I do without some kind hand to help what. They scoff at the idea that travel could be easy or affordable to all. Pssh, they say you must have a trust fund. They are not the whole story to tell

Bob is not as far away as others because he knows what I have been saying all along -. It is no secret to travel. You just go do it! You need to make the jump. But he is wrong, that this leap to make to be able to, must be turned off in advance. Hard work and dedication can will get you where you need to go. I was working my butt, so I could go travel. I taught English to my bank account recharge.

But only see cynics and hear what they want. I told Bob that I had loans that mathematics worked out that I him not an unrealistic dream, connected to all the products I sold have written to share my experiences, and spoke more about my past.

I never heard of Bob Back

Sarah Palin syndrome you can not see the truth. it seeks to strengthen only your faith. After Bob knew my story (a story that I never hide, but had he not the time to learn assume), he went away. Cynics may be cynic

Bob's right -. It is no secret to travel. You just have to take the plunge. I am no bigger dream than sell. Everything that I do is that you push out the door and then say, how to save money when outdoors.

There are bound to be Bob's in your life. People will dismiss your goals, achievements and dreams. They will try to give you a sense of reality and tell you, "the whole story."

I think people like Bob can not do the impossible dream. Where Bob and people like him is wrong, that they believe that only those individuals who have hectic or unassisted life to go their dream. But your average person? You can not do it.

You are completely wrong.

Travel is possible to pay with a Job USD $ 30,000 per year in a big city like Boston. The Bobs of the world will never believe that, though, because if they did, then they would, that everything would be possible to accept.

And then she could not be unhappy and cynical.

But I like the Bobs of the world because I can go and prove them wrong. And hopefully I can inspire many of you to do the same by crushing the myth that the journey is expensive or unavailable

And then we can all say Bob :. "I know you are wrong. I will not let me down. I'll just let it inspire me to do better."

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