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Extra: The reason I decided to sell up and sail away (video)

I created this video to give you a perspective as to how and why we made the decision to sell up and sail away. It’s quite raw and unpolished but I think the message is solid. I’d love to hear your thoughts in my comments below. Thank you for taking the time to watch this.

If you’d like to read my next article in The Journey, please read: Courses, becoming British, putting our remaining possessions on a pallet and what else?

The reason I decided to sell up and sail away – the transcripts to the video

When I made the decision that I wanted to sell up and sail away, I made it out of frustration. I was really frustrated with my life. I had spent years working really hard. In fact, I had considered myself a workaholic. I worked really hard to buy a really big house and then I realized I spent all my time cleaning the big house and buying things to fill the house that I never even enjoyed. I had lots of closets and dressers and cabinets and they are all full of all sorts of things but I wasn’t any happier. Overtime I just got more and more frustrated. I thought to myself “Why did I worked so hard to get this big house so that I can just sit around and clean it?”

Also, my diet was atrocious because I was working and cleaning so much I only purchased processed foods, ready meals the kind you pull the cling film off or wrap off, and put it in the oven. I’ve got this big house, I’m eating crap and I have no time to spend with my family, my daughter. My frustration grew and grew and grew and I just thought “Man, life. This doesn’t make sense anymore.” When it came to the decision of selling up and sailing away, I thought “Wow, that would really help me get back to a place that I would prefer to be in.” A lot of people have asked me “What do you want to achieve about this? What do you want to achieve when sailing around the world?” I created a list of all the things that I’m interested in. I’m going to look down here just to refer to it so I can remember.

One of the things that I really want to experience is a feeling of space and freedom. I’m fed up with things. I just want to get out under the blue sky and see the blue sea and just feel that freedom of space and be outside. I want to reconnect with nature. I know it sounds a bit woo woo but I’ve spent so much time commuting on trains, traveling on planes, working in an office, being in board rooms and I just want to be outside. I’d love to be outside in a place where the weather is okay. I mean coming from Rochester, New York the winters are very, very cold. The summers are very, very hot. Living in England, it rains a lot. I would just like to be outside and be under the sun and just breathe the beautiful salt sea smell.

Apart of me wants to reconnect with nature. The other thing that I’ve got down here in my list is to eat wholesome local fresh food because I’ve been so busy I suppose I never really learned how to cook. When you have extra money, you can buy nice organic meals even though they are still processed you feel like you’re doing good for the family, you’re not. I realized that now. I just want to sail around and go up to maybe a fishing village and buy fresh fish that was just caught that day. Go to a local produce stand and buy whatever the vegetables are that they grow in the area. Again, I think it’s this reconnection to what’s natural. I got down on the list, the other thing I have is to stop working so much.

I mean, no matter what I do in this life I really enjoy working, I enjoy creating. In the normal context I just end up working too much. The one thing that sailing does is it forces me to stop and just enjoy the moment. I do get seasick, I can’t really read or type or write when I’m sailing. I just sit in the cockpit and I look out and I look at other sailboats. I look at the scenery. I feel that peace and it’s almost like I’m forced to be at peace but I love that. I love being forced because I won’t do it if I’m left to my own devices. The other thing that I’d like to get out of our adventure is a stronger connection to people. Of course, my family I want to connect better with but also the friends that joined us and the people that we’re going to meet.

I just imagine things might be a bit more simple and I won’t be so stressed and I just look forward to just meeting new people and hearing what their story is. I guess, seeing the world and connecting with people and making memories. The last thing I put is to somehow out of all this create a way that we can maintain our ability to enjoy life and to create an income. I’m not sure how I’m going to do it yet but I really want to prove that you can do what you love and make an income from it. That’s something. I just noticed here, I missed out really the most important thing. In 2010, I had a baby, Sienna Maddison Brown and I think that’s when I actually really learned what love was and I learned I guess I learned a lot.

My whole perspective of life changed. I learned to love myself more and I learned to I think take care of myself and ask myself what do I really want in life. I wanted to be a good role model for my daughter and she’s just taught me so much and to have an opportunity to sail around the world and spend all that time with my husband, my daughter and the friends and family that are going to join us. It’s an absolute dream come true. I’m still grateful for this opportunity and I’m just so happy that I’m going to take the risk and we should be using the money for our retirement but this feels right. I know it’s going to work out and yeah so here’s to Sailing Britican.

Next Chapter: 31. Courses, becoming British, putting our remaining possessions on a pallet and what else?

Previous Chapter: 30. The contrast of sailing around the world and cancer

Or…if you’d like to carry on reading all about our journey from selling up and sailing away, you can purchase my book, ‘Changing Lifestyles – Trading the Rat Race in For A Sail Around The World,’ 

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"Interested in The Sailing Lifestyle? Are your needing just one more reason to change your life for the better, Just buy this book. I actually bought this for my wife(Workaholic) last year. It was the deciding factor for us to change things 😉 , After she read Kim's Book & we watched a few episodes of Sailing Britican (& a few others) we realized there is more to life than the rat race.....!
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  1. Bernie Dahl and Rosemarie Dahl Eskes says

    May 6, 2014 at 4:20 pm

    Bernie says: I’ve been friends with Helen & Chet Harkola since 1949, and that’s how I got your website. I applaud your philosophy and your willingness to follow your bliss!

    Rosemarie says: I’m Bernie’s daughter, and I too applaud you – for your courage! I understand the frustrations you talk about, but I totally can’t imagine selling all I have to go around the world, with no guarantees about what will happen during or after the trip. (I guess you’d say I’m highly risk-averse). I certainly applaud your courage, and wish you the best as you reconnect with your husband and daughter, and discover the world!

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    • Kim Brown says

      May 6, 2014 at 5:38 pm

      Bernie and Rosemarie – thank you for your comments. It’s so nice to feel connected, through you, to Grandma and Grandpa! It’s wonderful to spend all this time with my hubby and daughter, but I also miss my family in Rochester! Big smiles, Kim

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  2. Allen says

    July 31, 2014 at 5:16 am

    I so am with you on this one worked so hard to to fill a big house with stuff I could care less about trying to get the wife on board sailing around the world just makes more sense than just wasting away a perfectly good life

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  3. mick says

    July 25, 2016 at 6:43 pm

    great video ,
    I too have had the same feeling,
    I hear the ocean but fear I could not afford it …..
    is it possible buy a boat outright and to liveaboard for less than £1500 a month ?

    cheers mick

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    • Kim Brown says

      July 27, 2016 at 9:21 pm

      I know people that live on less than $1,000 USD/month! It’s possible 😉

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Changing Lifestyles: Trading in the Rat Race for a Sail Around The World (my book). Chapters:

  • 1. That’s it – I’m selling everything and sailing around the world!

  • 2. Oh crap – Are we healthy enough to sail around the world?

  • 3. House sold, price on yacht almost negotiated – just need temporary housing now!

  • 4. Before I sell up and sail away I need to clean out my closet (in many ways)

  • 5. Getting the boat of our dreams – will we or won’t we?

  • 6. Negotiations 56 Oyster Yacht have finished but not without massive pain

  • 7. Everything was going well until we got this phone call…

  • 8. Quick, quick – we need to sell our current boat. We need a place to live. We need to…

  • 9. My new normal and dealing with giving up all our possessions

  • 10. Going from sailing Selene to selling Selene so we could afford to buy our 56′

  • 11. Sea trials and the survey – the night before we meet our dream yacht

  • 12. Hours before we meet our new yacht…our new home!

  • 13. Sea trials on the Oyster 56 were a success – we love her!

  • 14. Getting a yacht lifted out for a Marine Survey

  • Extra: Sell Up and Sail Away Video – Sea Trails & Survey

  • 15. After sea trials and the survey I ran a marathon (accidentally)

  • 16. What does homeschooling, the paleo diet, writing, and photography have to do with sailing?

  • 17. I’m so freaking frustrated – the world is broken

  • 18. Saying goodbye to my old routines and old lifestyle

  • 19. Life has slowed way down – is it the calm before the storm?

  • 20. A lesson on stopping the ‘what-if’s’ from taking over my life!

  • 21. Serious issue – we can’t take our yacht to Barcelona, Spain as planned – YIKES!

  • Extra: Sell Up and Sail Away Video 2 – Our thoughts, feelings and move day!

  • 22. The day before we purchase our 56′ Oyster

  • 23. My first trip on our new yacht – Dolphins included!

  • 24. Feeling excited, sick, and in awe are not mutually exclusive when sailing on the seas

  • 25.Things got worse

  • Extra: Sell Up and Sail Away Video 3 – Palma Mallorca to Gibraltar

  • 26. Sell up and sail away preparations – we successfully took possession of your new yacht

  • 27. Preparation for our around the world sailing trip couldn’t get more exciting!

  • 28. Two months to go before we set sail for our world adventure

  • 29. We got a gun, but not the kind you’re probably thinking of

  • 30. The contrast of sailing around the world and cancer

  • Extra: The reason I decided to sell up and sail away (video)

  • 31. Courses, becoming British, putting our remaining possessions on a pallet and what else?

  • Extra. No – we did not win the lottery!

  • 32. Less than 3 weeks to go before we sail off into the sunset

  • 33. Ten days to go before we set sail on our grand adventure

  • 34. Will this sailing adventure turn me into a dreadlocked, pot smoking, whale saver?

  • 35. In 2 days we will set sail around the world sailing adventure

  • 36. Leaving Gosport England today to start on our around the world sailing adventure

  • 37. Life aboard our new yacht with the BBC, Daily Mail and Times in tow

  • 38. Feeling amazing, scared, overwhelmed and useless

  • 39. Sailing Gibraltar To Malta

  • 40. I’m honoured to introduce Loryn Bennett – Britican’s Chef

  • 41. I still can’t even believe this is happening

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