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In the 60s psychologist and LSD advocate Timothy Leary coined an oft used phrase that appealed to many trying to get away from a world moving too fast with too much innovation and change, " Turn on, Tune in, Drop out". Hippiedom became a solid movement and isolated sunny villages around the world found themselves the destination of choice for free love and children named Rainbow and Moonbeam. All those hippies eventually had to grow up and became lawyers and stock brokers but some stayed because the world kept moving at a pace they didn't want to keep up with.

It's a stretch but I think we are approaching a blip in the societal chart where once again we are moving so fast with innovation, expectations, privacy disruption and global disharmony that some people will tick the "hippy" box and opt out. Everyone talks about expectations around response, connectivity, always being available and not having any "me" time. World turmoil is encountered at every touch point with no escaping the technology steamroller chasing you.

Halcyon days of summer wine and long afternoons come to mind when people reminisce about the "good old days" before the treadmill was turned up to high speed. So is it any wonder the thought process still exists to find those places where you can open your mind and not have it filled by channels of change, disruption and people "poking" you at every opportunity.

The biggest problem to people wanting to drop out is where to go? All the good spots were taken up in the 60s and 70s and have now become established communities like Nimbin where Moonbeam is now the school principal and Rainbow is the local council member.

So if you had your choice, do you have that spot in mind where peace reigns and you can open yourself up to nature? Is it still achievable in a world expecting so much of you? Is it in your diary or in your 5 year plan? Like everything in life and business, if you don't have a plan then it won't come to fruition.

The issue being that even just dropping out requires deep thought on how to survive and live the life you dream of in that coastal shack. How do you do life's little errands like banking, communicating in case of emergency, paying for things, where do you get your smokes (yes those ones) and what else will you do for entertainment once the your friends go back to work?

Why not just take your phone? If the hippies had smart phones in the 60s they would no doubt still be happily living in the hills ordering over the phone and having the Fed Ex guy deliver. Now where is that old tie dye T shirt?