Ten years ago this week, my book The Freedom Project: Happiness was published. This book was the second book in the Freedom Project series, and in many ways, my most personal one. While Travel celebrated the joy of exploring the world, Happiness was about something more difficult: learning to bring that same sense of freedom home.
At the time, I didn’t write it from a mountaintop of success. Happiness at work was a foreign concept for me for many years. I wrote it from a place of searching. Travel had given me glimpses of freedom: the feeling of time standing still, of being fully alive and connected. But once I returned home, that feeling slipped away as fast as my tan. I didn’t want to keep using travel to get away from a life I didn’t even like in the first place. I wanted to learn how to live freely every day.
From escaping life to creating one worth living
Too often, I used travel as an escape from a life that felt confining. On the road, I could do whatever I wanted. Back home, I f…
