If you’re reading this blog you are likely one of three people: 1. You are actively living the lifestyle you chose and come here to hang out with like-minded souls, learn from others and possibly give out your own advice. Good for you, thanks for coming. 2. You are in the process of planning to separate yourself from the mundane and are looking for last-minute advice and … [Read more...]
Own Your Blog with Thesis
Want to save yourself a few minutes? Just go purchase Thesis and don’t bother reading the rest of this post. No? Ok, then, let me begin by introducing myself. Some of you might already know me. I’m Norcross, the tattoo'd surly guy who built the Untemplater site you all know and love, and keeps an eye on the back-end stuff of this site. A few of us may have met in person … [Read more...]
Improve Your College Experience With These Untemplate Hacks
If any of you are college students like me, you find a paradox with the Untemplater lifestyle. You’ve read Tim Ferris, you’ve downloaded the Manifesto on this site, but this kind of lifestyle still seems utterly impossible. This is because the typical university experience might be the clearest example of the template lifestyle. Think about it. A typical college student has … [Read more...]
Ask the Readers: What will your legacy be?
This is a question that is probably most often asked in personal development. It is a question that, for me, has been an extremely loaded one. Since I've been involved in Untemplater I've asked myself many times: "How often are my decisions based on my own personal needs or desires? How often are my decisions based on other people's desires or expectations of me?" Time … [Read more...]
A decision I didn’t regret
I've made a fair number of terrible decisions in my life. I made so many in the pursuit of my professional accounting designation that I decided to start a website to help others avoid similar mistakes. Fortunately, I am blessed with occasional foresight to make a really, really, really good decision. One such decision was last November, when I applied to volunteer of the … [Read more...]