I left my life behind for 30 days and this is what I learned

Nir Zavaro
5 min readDec 1, 2021
Photo by Benjamin Davies on Unsplash

I am writing this from London. It’s been just 30 days since I left my old life and apparently this trip will be cut short by a couple of days.

My time away has made me sit down and reflect on my life, the past month and where I’m going from here.

I feel blessed that I even have the ability to leave everything behind for a while and go find myself and the next step. Before I keep going, I need to thank my team at Streetwise, my agency. We do outsourced marketing services for major clients in different industries and I can’t thank them enough for stepping up. The last month has proven we have room to grow and a team to grow with.

Finding myself didn’t include 2 weeks of nature or silence or yoga sessions. I just needed to get out of my routine, be alone, think, write and read (or listen to as much audio content as I could).

Life takes its toll on all of us. Without even noticing, we pick up habits, big and small. Look at the week ahead you have planned for yourself, and you’ll see that we have ways of passing the time, the week, the year. All we need to do is fill up our calendar with things to do and we are good to go.

I love my morning habits — waking up, going to my favorite specialty coffee spot and enjoying some good conversations. Then…

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Nir Zavaro

Chief Reality Officer. Teaching brand scale using storytelling techniques. My Best-selling book F*ck the Slides is on Amazon. Join my journey on social