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Essays on financial independence, purpose, and living a regret-free life.461 posts
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Continuous Reinvention
In a recent blog post I lamented that acceptance is the final stage of financial independence. No matter how hard you try to protect yourself with money, you...
The Final Stage Of Financial Independence
I have made no secret of the fact that my last few weeks have not gone to plan. With my work situation pivoting drastically, and changes with The What’s Up N...
Why Money Isn’t Enough
While not having funds will certainly cause innumerable problems, money isn’t enough. If I wasn’t sure of this before, I definitely am after all the things t...
Limiting Beliefs
It is like I have an antennae. A radar. I attract these people like moths to a flame. I was just finishing up with a talk that I was giving to a medical conf...
The Three Keys
For the vast majority, success in life and finances is largely tied to mindset. Granted, there are those who are born in crappy situations with no resources,...
Financial Independence and The Courage To Rewrite Our Narrative
This last weekend I had the distinct privilege of attending CampFI Southwest in Joshua Tree, California. As per usual, I was blown away by the quality of peo...
It’s Never Too Late
Are you in your forties, fifties, sixties? Feeling like you are behind the eight ball and that financial independence is completely out of your reach? While ...
Impostor Syndrome
Walking down the hall at FinCon, I nodded to a group of people sitting on a row of couches on my way to one of the conference rooms. As a a grouping of three...
Parking Spaces
I should have known by the shear number of open parking spaces. Our lot, usually full to the gills in the middle of the day, was half empty. I scanned my mem...
The Year of Conferences
If you had any doubt about it, dispel of it right now. 2020 will be the year of conferences. The financial independence movement has reached a turning point,...
I See Changes
I wake up in DC and I ask myself.
Wealth, Consumption, and Minimalism
We live in a world of diminishing wealth. No, really. I am not talking about what you think I am. Of course, I can look around my comfortable lifestyle and s...
A Fickle Mistress
I was never very successful with girls during high school. In fact, they mostly avoided me like the plague. That didn’t stop me, however, from being most int...
Inefficiency and Luxury
I spend a lot of time thinking about luxury. Not in the traditional sense of champagne wishes and caviar dreams, but more about what makes life feel abundant...
Conspicuous Consumption
Many in the financial independence community are familiar with the term stealth wealth. Popularized, in part, by the book *The Millionaire Next Door* was the...
Why FatFIRE?
We love to take trips to Mexico. Especially in the winter. As the Chicago temperature plummets below zero, we can’t help but want to plot our escape. We aren...
Why?
This is an incredibly busy few days coming up. I am preparing to take a two week vacation with my family starting this Saturday, and feel like everything is ...
Money and Death
Money and death. Sounds kind of morbid, right? But, that’s exactly what we are concerned with in the financial independence community. We like to talk about ...
One Fundamental Question
Can everyone become financially independent? I believe it comes down to one fundamental question. Simple and yet complicated. I feel like the whole financial...
Fear Of
Things are pretty great. Really. I find that working less and pursuing joy in my professional and personal life is far more gratifying than grinding away at ...
Burning Through Enough
Yesterday was a dream day. A wonderful day. So many good things happened all at the same time. This is a rare occurrence. Maybe once in a decade do I have a ...