Hey Dear,

5 weeks ago, I packed my life into one suitcase and flew 11,230 km away from home.
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​I've always wanted to experience the life of a digital nomad.
I've had this dream for years.
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But I thought it was just a whim, a fantasy.
So I buried it deep down.
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Until life happened and turned it into a now-or-never moment.
There wasn't going to be a better time.
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So I bought the tickets.
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To Bali.
For two months.

I’d never lived outside Poland.
Never even been to Asia.

No plan B.
Just a ticket, a pulse, and a voice in my head whispering over and over:
​“What if you can’t handle this?”

The first weeks were messy.
I got lost. I sweated through every T-shirt I owned.
Learning to drive a scooter on the open road, in a foreign country with left-side traffic, felt like a near-death experience.

But then something shifted.

I started to know people by name in my coworking space.
Found a gym. A boxing club. My sports routine came back.
One day, I reached for my GPS and realised I didn’t need it anymore - I already knew the route.
Now there’s a café where the barista starts making my Americano before I even say a word and fist-bumps me when I walk in.

I built a rhythm.
A routine.
A life.

And that’s when it hit me:
All those years I said “I’ll do it when I’m ready,” I wasn’t being realistic.
I was scared.

The truth is - you never feel ready.
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Because you’re not supposed to.

Readiness isn’t a requirement.
It’s a byproduct.
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The thing you earn once you’ve already jumped.

You get confident by doing, not by preparing to do.

That’s true for moving abroad.
It’s true for switching careers.
It’s true for any big leap that stretches what you think you’re capable of.

Your brain will always vote for safety - it’s not a sign of weakness, it’s how it’s wired.
But fear isn’t proof you can’t handle it.
It’s proof you’re about to grow.

So treat fear as part of your training.
It’s not a flaw in your system.
It is the system.

You don’t need to feel ready.
You just need to start moving.

Fear fades.
Movement stays.

Till next time,
Patryk
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