Remote Work on Tour: Part 3 — Getting into the Groove and then Life Happens!

Life doesn’t stop when you launch yourself into a new adventure. It takes on a whole new level of intensity or growth or involvement or effort. Or all of the above. When Naum Kaluzhny started on his 4-month Remote Year program, he was anticipating a journey of discovery. He wasn’t necessarily anticipating all the other things that ‘life’ throws at you along the way. And these things still have to be dealt with no matter where you are or who you’re with.

Moving to Marrakech

The whole remote working cohort moved en masse from Cape Town to their second month’s home — Marrakech. They were aware that the culture and environment would be very different, with a different dynamic and flow as everyone sought to establish new working and living patterns. This would feel like quite a dramatic change from the free-wheeling atmosphere and night-life in Cape Town that had accompanied and contributed to the group’s first high energy and intense weeks getting to know each other.

Kaluzhny was rather looking forward to the change and at the beginning of the month he was finding a more settled routine, more focused solely on work during the week with trips organized at weekends. The time for connecting and nurturing relationships had decreased and weekday distractions diminished. At…