The itinerary for my official 5-week trip back to the U.S. to travel to South by Southwest Interactive, Coachella Music & Arts Festival, and all over Arizona and California in between. Help contribute to my ambitious projects or help me seek a corporate sponsor for a 2011 entrepreneurship & personal development retreat in Southern California.

One shortcut to change your internal state is to change your external state. To overcome a big hurdle, change a persistent negative behavior, or make some other kind of big leap in your personal development, maybe you need to change more than yourself… maybe you need to change your surroundings?

Karol Gajda discusses what it means to have Ridiculously Extraordinary Freedom, and discusses his travels, his success with earning an income online through affiliate marketing, and how you can travel and live anywhere too!

For two months, Bangkok Thailand was victim to violent political unrest and riots, with military “Live Fire Zones” where soldiers were ordered to shoot on sight and homemade explosives and Molotov cocktails erupting all around the city. Ask yourself this: would you truly want to be a part of a bloody, real-life revolution?

Anyone motivated to be successful in life has a list of things they want to do before they die. Your list of life goals may not be written down on paper, but a “Bucket List” is a great way to determine what’s important to you, and hold yourself accountable for following through and executing on your dreams.

Corbett Barr from FreePursuits shares his experience taking a 6-month sabbatical from work and from “normal life” and how it made a positive change in his life. Maybe now is the right time for you to consider a sabbatical or a gap year too?

An awesome guest video post by Matt Wilson, co-founder of Under30CEO.com. Are you designing the lifestyle you want to live? Whatever it is that you’re passionate to do with your life, dream it, live it, do it.

I sit down with Jun Loayza of Future Delivery for a fantastic conversation on work-life philosophy, living in Thailand, building a location independent business, and living a remarkable lifestyle.