My biggest fear when planning my Mini-retirement to Beijing China was that I was going to be extremely lonely. I was worried that I wouldn’t be able to make new friends or connect in a meaningful way with the people I encountered. All alone in a country of 1.3billion. Thankfully, this is one of those …

If you can’t see the video, click here to watch My first 2 mini retirement mistakes and how you can avoid them on Youtube. I hope you got a laugh out of the video. While mistakes are sometimes embarrassing, they’re rarely a big deal to anyone other than yourself.

Click here to watch the video on youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOyxMn52DCk This one is for all my friends and family. You know who you are. Here are the cliff notes:

So in a couple of days I’m going to be leaving on my first “mini-retirement” to Beijing, China. I’m going for a month. To say I’m excited would be an understatement, but it doesn’t show the full picture. My emotions have been oscillating between pure excitement and sheer terror in the lead up to this …