My pursuit of personal sovereignty and freedom 🆓

Geographical freedom and personal sovereignty are key components of winning at life for a number of reasons:

1. They allow me to optimize my lifestyle, health, and living conditions because I can choose where to live based on my requirements e.g. trading the darkness and rain of the UK for year-round sunshine. This increases my capacity for performance as well as my happiness.

2. They facilitate the expansion of my consciousness, giving me access to people and events all around the world as well as allowing me to experience different cultures. This provides a variety of data points that help me triangulate the 'truth' and shake me from the echo chamber that can occur from being in a single location (I call these pattern interrupts).

3. It has allowed me to optimize my taxes, spending (earn USD, spend pesos for example), and investments.

4. It has given me a level of security and freedom, independent of what is going on in a particular country or region of the world. This frees up mental bandwidth to focus on other (higher) things.

In this article, I describe how I left the UK and set up my residencies, multiple passports, and off-shore entities. The quick nav is below if you want to skip to a specific section. I've limited sharing of specific resources or individuals as a lot of the info will be outdated but Google is your friend. One of my first forays into this was through the book Sovereign Individual which is worth a read.

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Quick Navigation

🌍 How it all began: The First Pattern Interrupt
🌍 Leaving the UK - Travel as a Pattern Interrupt
🌍 Portugal and Malta - Going Off-shore
🌍 Serbian Passport - My 2nd Passport
🌎 Mexico - A Winter Base
🌎 Further Passports
🌎 Investments all over the world

How It All Began

I initially broke out of my geographical bubble in 2017 after a decade of head-down hustle and barely leaving my hometown. This created a severe echo chamber and in hindsight, I can see that my game was limited by this - I was operating within a fraction of my potential and capacity, and at the time I was totally unaware.

The first pattern interrupt was a cold call from a guy named Phil back in late 2017. Phil is now a close friend and lives a 10-minute walk away from me in Lisbon. The only thing I knew about him was that a mutual friend had connected us and that he was looking for a 'fitness entrepreneur' for a mastermind in Italy.

The 3-day mastermind expanded into a 3-week road trip across Europe from Italy to Spain where I attended a second event, meeting a load of Amazon sellers who have also become close friends over the years.