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2018
Avoid The Four Wrongs of Real Estate
There is no more polarizing issue in the personal finance community than real estate. For every land lording success story, there is an equally compelling s...
Margin Without Mission
Those of us who are passionate about hospice work often shy away from discussing the economics of the business. Because it is such a mission based field, of...
Inheriting a Perpetual Money Machine
I have boasted in the past about not only being second generation FI but also third generation FI. My path to financial independence, however, was not inher...
Trigger Events
I have thought a lot about retirement lately. As you can tell from my posts about downsizing and fading to early retirement, there are various ways to extri...
The Achievement Treadmill
We have all heard of the hedonic treadmill. Basically lifestyle inflation, instead of sating our appetite, leads to more aggressive consumerism. We have mo...
I Choose Work
For most our lives, work is not a choice but rather a necessity. Even when financial independence is reached, the early retirement fallacy rears its ugly he...
Post FI Challenge
I think it shocks my readers when I say that financial independence is something that once reached needs to be coped with. Believe it or not, it takes a lit...
YOLO is a No No
I have written in the past about the opportunity cost fallacy. In brief, there is an argument that luxury spending saps wealth by obliterating the compoundi...
How This Physician Escaped Medicare
I have a confession to make. I have been planning my escape since the first day I set foot in the office as an attending physician. The writing was on the ...
Cheap, Simple, and Easy
I think it is easy to confuse the trees from the financial forest. In my opinion, financial plans should have roughly four legs. The table should be proppe...
The Early Retirement Fallacy
You are going to work. When you are young. When you are old. There is no doubt about it. You are going to create some service or product and exchange tha...
Side Hustle Exhibition
I am a big fan of proof of concept. We bloggers are great at talking about financial independence, investing, and side hustles. Our advice holds hollow, ho...
Money Insecurity
It is easy to paint financial independence as a nirvana. Easy to say that it is a goal that once attained will allay all worries and anxieties. But I think...
Don’t Confuse How With Why
I have to admit that sometimes I am a little redundant on this blog. Although I never want to bore my readers, I find that there are just so many different ...
Growing Up Next Door to the Joneses
In the financial independence world, we love to talk metaphorically about the Joneses. These are the people who we, often in an unhealthy manner, compare ou...
Should Financial Independence Be a Target?
I have mentioned several times on this blog that for me financial independence was quite accidental. Although I had financially responsible parents who were...
Financial Independence Losses
We love to talk about what we have gained with financial independence. The list is oft recounted on blog after blog. Some have suggested that we even have ...
Money Can’t Buy Health
She was prim and proper. The once baron room was filled with art work and photographs. Pictures and memories. You could barely tell that she was in essenc...
When It Comes To FIRE, Kids Are Holding You Back
I have mentioned often that I am Second Generation FI (Boring FI). The unfortunate truth is that I started ahead of the game. I grew up with financially sa...
Boring FI
Here in the financial independence community we like to categorize ourselves. We can categorize based on our vision of enough. There is leanFIRE, and fatFI...
Celebrating The Financial Independence Community
I know in the past I have mentioned how the financial independence community can be close minded at times. Needless to say, these occasions are actually few...
Stealthy, Wealthy, and Wise
Although you may not believe it my dear reader, I have great hopes for you. As with any group of close intimates, I wish for you only the best. Everyday as...
Is Money Apathy The New Financial Independence?
In a previous post I discussed the magic of market apathy. When your path to financial independence is long-term and you have chosen the right investments, ...
Stealth Work
One of the great benefits of reaching financial independence is the ability to modify work schedules to fit my preferences. Maybe I want to work only certai...