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2018
My First Lesson in Business
The trap had been set. I arranged my baseball cards in the three boxes that I had arranged in a circle around my bedroom floor. I checked again to make sur...
Are We Stuck in the Accumulation Phase?
According to traditional thinking, the arc of our wealth should be in a Bell shaped curve. At the lowly beginnings, money is but a far off dream, a goal. R...
Success Is not the Best End Game
I wasn’t going to write this post. Waking up this morning, my list of possible blog topics was taking me in a completely different direction. But then I he...
Is Frugality a Tool?
I have been pondering as of late why our community sometimes feels close minded. We, as a group, are not always open to the idea of luxury purchases. In ma...
Doubling Down and Failing Forward
As a personal finance blogger, physician, and entrepreneur, I have spent much time contemplating the keys to success. Success in finances. Success in busin...
The Five Stages of Coping With Financial Independence
I stumbled and I bumbled. I staggered and I sputtered. And then I fell down a hole. A dark chasm. With neither sight nor sound, debased by tactile infirm...
The Opportunity Cost Fallacy
I have written before about how the financial independence community can be somewhat close minded. This is no more apparent than when discussing luxury spen...
When Enough Isn’t Enough
Connor vaguely heard the words as they spilled out of his grandfather, the patriarch’s mouth, and formed a forgotten puddle on the unforgiving linoleum. He ...
Do You Run a Financially Independent Business?
Although I would never describe the business of primary care medicine as cutting edge, there are a number of innovations that have come and gone during my sh...
The Once I Have Syndrome
There was once a little boy who looked longingly at the immense, vast world and wondered about all its uncertainty. Like most young children, he wanted noth...
The Money Mind Meld
Financial independence didn’t come easy to me. Although the actual fiscal transition was quite by accident, the emotional awakening was anything but smooth....
Financial Independence is a Mirror
Financial independence is a mirror, it’s not a door. You may deny the voracity of this statement. You may try to convince yourself otherwise. But bursting...
Is the Financial Independence Community Close Minded?
I have found a huge amount of support and enjoyment by interacting with like minded personal finance people on social media and within the blogosphere. Unli...
The Underdog Phenomenon
We frame our lives. We look at the past under certain lenses that help us not only understand but also cope with that which has befallen us. Both successes...
The Lazy Side Hustle Shuffle
Everybody knows that I am a big fan of the side hustle. Finding a revenue stream outside the traditional W2 can do nothing but boost the path to financial i...
The Dark Side of Stealth is Silence
I have a little world that exists inside my head. It’s full of numbers and figures. Projections and estimations. I plot these thoughts on spreadsheets, in...
Hey Young World
I was a child of the eighties. Like many of my peers, life lessons not only came from school and our parents, but also from the rarefied lyrics of rap music...
Is Process Weighing Us Down?
My son once brought home a math test he had just taken. The page was full of green marks which signified that he had done a great job. When I looked at the...
Leap Before You Look
Looking over these last few months of blog posts, it is easy to read my content and believe that when it came to my career and wealth building, that I had so...
The Momentum Effect
We have all heard of the one more year phenomena. Financially independent people, such as myself, hit the wall of fear. Although we have enough, we persist...
Persistence Is The Secret Sauce
My daughter had her first track meet this weekend. We showed up to a field house at the local high school and watched as dozens of kids and hundreds of pare...
Every Doctor Should Have a Plan B
I’ve written previously that financial independence is plan B. Plan A, of course, is life. Your work and time are precious and life is too short to be wadi...
My Money, Our Money
The elderly women sits half propped upon the rickety bead frame as she looks uncomprehendingly at her daughter through dementia soaked eyes. The room is lit...
The Many Benefits of A Crisis
I have neck pain. It’s been going on for years. Usually I get sore stiff muscles once a week and a headache. This is the consequence of having a big bobbl...