A Practical Guide To Chasing Your Dreams
CLEO Singapore|August 2017

Want to travel for a year or quit your accounting job to become a concert pianist? Can! But first, you need to consider this...

A Practical Guide To Chasing Your Dreams

We live in an age when all we hear are success stories; Mark Zuckerburg dropping out of Harvard and starting Facebook being perhaps the most famous. But besides him, there are lots of people who seem to be making money off following their dreams – a quick scroll through Instagram is the easiest place to see that.

A wise man once told me that if you’re going to quit your job, you need three months’ salary in savings at the minimum, especially if you want to live at a decent standard and not have to deprive yourself of too many nice things. Oh yeah, that wise man was my father. So in addition to those words of wisdom, here are a few key no-bullsh*t requirements you’ll need if that’s the kind of job/life you want to have.

1 Money

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