Hello, Phil here. I hope everyone’s doing well. Actually, I’m not even sure if I have any readers left, but hopefully that’s going to change over the next little while.

I just want to start off with an apology to those who have left comments over the last eight months and didn’t see them appear on the site. I’ve been going through a terrible time trying to keep ahead of the spambots. At one point, there were over 35,000 spam messages in my comments section. I have a policy of manually approving all comments on the site before they go live – and it’s a good thing I do, otherwise you’d see nothing but ads for Viagra, porn, credit repair, and so forth. Read the rest of this entry

Coming to terms with one’s self is absolutely critical before you can move on into the implementation stage. I experienced a huge influx of emotions from one end of the scale to the other while asking myself what I really wanted and how I truly wanted to live my life. For anyone going through this, you know exactly Read the rest of this entry

Is it possible to become self-sufficient without trading work for money? Possibly – but unlikely. Yup, I realize that’s a bold statement and it might ruffle the feathers of a few hard-core, minimalist, live-off-the-land types, but I can’t see any way around it.

It’s not that I am missing the true essence of what it means to be free of the system. I would love to find a way to get around the work-for-pay dependency. In fact, I have spent a considerable amount of time in the past year going over every possible scenario with regards to living a life free of the shackles of our modern system. Read the rest of this entry