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Lately, we’ve been thinking a lot about what it actually means to live a good life.
Not the kind of “good life” that looks perfect from the outside.
We mean the real kind.
The kind where your coffee tastes better because you’re not rushing through it.
The kind where your days feel like they actually belong to you.
The kind where you can look around and think…
“This may not be perfect, but it feels right.”
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And if we’re being honest, our definition of a good life has changed a lot over the years.
We Used To Think A Good Life Meant More
More success. More money. More stuff.
More proof that we were doing things “right.”
For a long time, we thought a good life meant constantly building toward something bigger.
And don’t get us wrong — we still love goals. We still love dreaming. We still believe in building things, trying new ideas, and creating a life that feels exciting.
But what has changed is this: “More” doesn’t always mean “better.”
Sometimes more just means more pressure. More things to maintain.
Somewhere along the way, we started asking a different question. Not just: “How do we get more?”
But: “What do we actually want our life to feel like?”
That question changed a lot for us.
Travel Has Changed Us
Before we had the van our life was spent in airports. Now don’t get me wrong – we loved it. We loved packing light, exploring airport lounges and the whole flying experience. Those planes brought us to amazing places. Places like Hong Kong, China, Taiwan, Singapore and Japan.
Travel has a funny way of rearranging your priorities. It was that type of travel that set us up for van life. We knew that we could live in small spaces, live with less things and still explore and love our life.
When you spend time in new places you start noticing what really matters.
You notice how good it feels to sit outside without an agenda and that some of your happiest moments don’t cost much at all.
A walk. A view. A conversation.
A really good meal after a long day. 😄
Some of our best memories haven’t come from big, fancy moments. They’ve come from simple ones like exploring new places, new coffee shops and meeting new people.
Those moments remind us that a good life doesn’t always need to be impressive.
Sometimes it just needs to be present.
Work Has Changed Us Too
Building businesses has taught us a lot.
Some lessons have been exciting and some have been humbling.
We’ve learned that working for yourself can be incredibly rewarding — but it can also blur the line between your life and your work.
There is always one more thing to do. One more product to improve. One more post to make.
And when you care about what you’re building, it’s easy to let it take up every corner of your mind. We’ve definitely been guilty of that.
But over time, we’ve realized that we don’t want to build a business that consumes the life we’re trying to create.
We want our work to support our life, not replace it.
We still want to create, build, and share things that inspire people to travel more, stress less, start something new, or see life a little differently.
But we also want room to breathe and explore,
Our Good Life Feels Simpler Now
At one point, we probably would have described a good life with bigger words: Large home. Corporate job. Retirement plans.
But now the words that keep coming up are: Freedom. Adventure. Opportunity.
Now our life is built around building our own business, traveling in the van and working in places like Yellowstone during our summers. It also means living smaller spaces (when not in the van we live in a studio condo). This all means less clutter/less stuff.
This type of life feels more valuable to us than our past work lives. Maybe that’s part of getting older and knowing what we want.
We now know that a good life isn’t only measured by what you achieve. It’s also measured by what you get to experience, who you get to share it with, and how you feel while living it.
A Question For You
Maybe this is something worth asking yourself too:
“What does a good life mean to me now?”
Not what it meant years ago. Not what someone else told you it should mean.
Maybe your answer is changing too. Maybe it’s becoming simpler. Maybe it’s becoming braver.
Whatever it is, we hope you give yourself permission to listen to it.
Because your good life doesn’t have to look like anyone else’s. It just has to feel true to you.
And for us, that feels like a pretty good place to start.
P.S. Our definition of a good life keeps changing, and maybe that’s the point. We’re all allowed to grow into new versions of ourselves — and new versions of what matters most.
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