Travel Hacking: Earn Frequent Flyer Miles, Become a Travel Ninja or Just Fly for Free

travel hacking cartel reviewHey everyone, if you didn’t get the memo yet today was the launch of the Travel Hacking Cartel by Chris Guillebeau.

note: If you’re serious about learning how to get free flights, first class upgrades and stay in hotels for free this is a good time to hop on and get a 14 day trial for only $1. Yup, that’s a buck to get a test drive.

About two years ago me and my girlfriend started looking for ways to search for ways to travel the world that would make it affordable to us.

We started with a plan of visiting Italy, India, Indonesia and Costa Rica, all beautiful places. We obviously knew it was expensive to get away to anywhere in the world from the U.S.

To say the least, after doing some research we weren’t to happy with the figures that we came up with adding all the flights, hotels, food, and miscellaneous expenses. We were disappointed and thought, man this sucks! How are we going to do it?

At that time I was working a normal corporate job making the average income, and covering all the expenses at home and while traveling, we knew we wouldn’t be able to do it. I’m sure some of you know what I mean.

My biggest problem was that I didn’t know where to look for or what to do to be able to make my travel goals come alive.

All this was before I knew anything about Travel Hacking.

The first time I got introduced to that word was when I read the 4 four hour week blog. Tim Ferriss talks about it there and on the book. I was so excited when I was learning that you could go on a round the world trip for pennies-on-the-dollar.

That’s when I got the hope that we we’re gonna be able to follow the dream that’s never left us.

Different people around the web have figured out ways to travel far far away around the globe for less then a price of one ticket.

Travel Hacking has been around now for a while, there’s even a book on it. (highly recommended) But now there’s a better thing than the book, The Cartel

Welcome to the Travel Hacking Cartel

Chris has come out with the ultimate membership-based community for people into free and discounted travel. He’s learned ways to get free travel that a lot of us are unaware of, letting him earn over 1,000,000 miles per year.

He’s really the poster child for Travel Hacking and I don’t think I know anyone else with quiet the knowledge on this niche besides him.

I just became a member this afternoon and I plan on working towards free travel for me and brit to Italy. After you join you’re gonna see that most of the points you earn will be while being home. And he’s made it super simple to get updates by email or text about deals. love this!

The World’s Craziest Guarantee

You see a lot of programs offer your typical 30-day money back guarantee right? Not this time, I think Chris has gone nuts or something, or maybe he’s just extremely confident on the membership and I am too.

He’s says: “Follow our Deal Alerts and spend at least 30 minutes a month working the system, and you’ll earn enough Frequent Flyer miles for one free plane ticket every quarter (25,000 miles), or four a year (100,000 miles).”

How the Cartel Works?

It’s really simple, you’ll get to jump online login into the membership and look for updates on ways to get deals or you can set it up to get email or text messages when something comes out immediately.

He basically gives you what you need to know to go take advantage of the opportunities when they break. Oh and a little tip, if you refer-a-hacker you get free travel rewards too.

As I’ve mentioned, just about a few hours ago the Travel Hacking Cartel opened up. There’s only 1000 seats waiting to be filled it it’s not to late already. It’s only a buck for the 14 day trial, and after it’s filled it’s only going to be through referral.

Get your spot in the Travel Hacking Cartel while there’s availability and begin hacking your way around the world today.

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People are asking me “What is lifestyle design?”

Because of an email I received recently I decided to really dig deeper into what did Lifestyle Design really meant. I found that a lot of people have put their two cents into it. There are hundreds of new blogs every day writing about lifestyle design grrrrr, yea this word again. Myself included have gotten confused about what it means.

So what’s LIFESTYLE DESIGN?

If we ask Google, this is the answer we get: Lifestyle Design is the design of one’s ideal lifestyle, especially an unconventional one, providing good opportunities for personal growth, leisure and adventure. Detailed methods include: career planning, entrepreneurship and travel.

Corbett Barr says in one of his posts titled “What is lifestyle design?”: It’s about design­ing your life instead of let­ting soci­ety design it for you.

Justin Wright says: In a nutshell, lifestyle design is all about creating your own design and plan for life.

Taner Maluchnik explains it this way: Goals are what you want to achieve, whereas lifestyle designs are the experiences that you want to have in life.

Adrian Koh wrote on a guest post for Litemind: Whether you call it lifestyle design, life design, work-life balance, or enlightened self-management, the central idea is this: life should be lived consciously and deliberately, and not left to chance.

But if we go by what Tim Ferriss wrote on his four hour work week book: The New Rich (NR) are those who abandon the deferred-life plan and create luxury lifestyles in the present using the currency of the New Rich: time and mobility. This is an art and a science we will refer to as Lifestyle Design (LD).

Out of all the interpretations that I found, Corbett really broke it down the easiest way. We live in a society that believes we should go to college, get a good job after graduation, get married…etc…etc then retire when you’re 65. That’s the way life has been designed for us, and that’s the ways IT’S SUPPOSED TO BE. Nooooo, not anymore!!!

I understand it has to be tough for you to know what exactly lifestyle design is when there are so many people blogging about it and so many blogs coming out every day talking about how to live “the lifestyle design“. If you ask me, there really is not a one-size fits all to the word.

I got introduced to the four hour work week when I read the book. The best way to get familiar with this whole new movement is to connect with people doing the things that Tim suggests in the book, and reading his blog as well. Go through the archives and learn about all the assumptions we’re so accustomed to believing, automation, online businesses, outsourcing and all the other 4HWW vocab that might be new to you.

If you think that Lifestyle Design is a scam or some kind of fad, I want to know why. What are your thoughts on LD? Do you think it’s here to stay? What do you know about it that we can learn?

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