I got slightly fitter but… — I wanted it quick and easy. To lose weight, get lean, and become fit. So when I came across the idea of a 30-day burpee challenge, I went for it. There are several variations of this challenge but I chose one that requires you to start with one burpee on…

Why do you want money? — Heads up: the core idea in this article is not mine. It’s from Morgan Housel’s “The Psychology of Money” but I found it so simple, yet so powerful that I needed to share it. Would you like to be a millionaire? How do envision your life with 1 million dollars? …

Paper maps, no accommodation booked, and no rules — I was born in 1988, in Portugal. My parents were middle class, my dad a teacher, my mom a baker. They didn’t travel much in their youth but always had an immense curiosity to discover the world. When I was 4, we started going on family road trips abroad. We…

This Simple Exercise Shows You How Much Time You Waste Being Distracted — I started noticing something weird every time I watch TV. A 40-minute episode of a tv show takes me around 1 hour to finish. A 90-minute movie takes me 2 hours. This is without the interruption of ads, I’m talking about streaming platforms. How is this possible? And then it…

Even the most skeptical need to agree on these points — I’m asked often how long I lived in France, but I don’t know. I lived there for several stints of 3–9 months, and I paid many shorter visits for work. It was the first country where I lived outside of my own (Portugal), and one I have always been eager…

Especially if you are planning on flying solo — 48 million people in the US alone quit their job in the last year. The Great Resignation is not showing signs of slowing down any time soon. We seem to be coming out of the pandemic, but its impact on work is here to stay for the long term. …

Have you? — The average book length is 90,000 words. Most articles on Medium are 5-minute reads or about 1,000 words. Have you written 90 articles? Then you have written enough words to create a book. Sure, a book needs a structure that is different from putting 90 articles together. I’m not suggesting…

From a Portuguese who moved back home after living abroad — I was born and raised in Portugal but always dreamt of living abroad. In my adult life, I called home to France, the UK, and Hungary. But after years abroad, I recently moved back to my home country. Now, I’m rediscovering my people. The habits we have, the culture we…

Returning can be more challenging than going away — I am a serial emigrant. But also a serial “returner”. I lived in France, the UK, and Hungary, but in between those stints abroad, I always came back to spend time in Portugal. Last month, I returned again, after 3.5 years in Budapest. Going back to your own country after…