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2018
I’m Allergic to Success
I have a friend. Let’s call him Stan. Stan is deathly allergic to shellfish. OK, not deathly allergic, but every time he eats lobster his face blows up, h...
Gratitude Wednesday
There is only one downside to this great financial independence community. Everyone is just too damn accomplished! While safely setting aside my own insane ...
Now and Laters
It was the year that his learning disability grew legs. Outstretched in front of a coloring book, he watched as his friends learned to decipher the unfathom...
Good Decision/Bad Decision: Financial Advisors
Today’s subject will hopefully be part of a regular series of Monday posts. As you recall, I recently started Gratitude Wednesdays. This series will focus ...
Mexico On a Non-Budget
Did I mention that Mexico is my happy place. Year after year, our trips bring me that something I can’t find anywhere else. Calm. Peace. Tranquility. We...
Range Anxiety
So today marks my first official vacation day in Mexico. Mexico is my happy place. I thought, in the spirit of being on a break, I would blog about something...
We FI Like We Lived
I think we FI like we lived pre FI. Let me explain.
Financial Independence is Bittersweet
I say that financial independence is bittersweet and you look at me with your jaw slack, your eyes questioning. You scan to the top of my blog and you see t...
Gratitude Post
There is only one downside to this great financial independence community. Everyone is just too damn accomplished! While safely setting aside my own insane ...
The Two Paths After Financial Independence
The road to financial independence, although long and winding, generally leads in one direction. At the beginning there is a goal, a dream. The way forward...
Is Perfect The Enemy of Good? Are We Shooting Too High?
When counseling my patients on health, I like to say that perfect is the enemy of good. Often shooting too high with our goals can have disastrous consequen...
Financial Independence and the Emotional Construct of Scarcity
Although since college I have told everybody that I am 6 Feet tall, in reality, It’s closer to 5’11”. A few years ago when I weighed 180 pounds, I wouldn’...
Me Before Money
The pulsing soreness shot through my legs as I gently ambled across the field to suddenly plop on an open grassy oasis underneath a gigantic brimming tree. ...
What Money Can’t Buy
The man standing across the nursing station was dressed flimsily in a gown that barely covered the bottom of his boxer briefs. He paced back and forth spitt...
Adventures In Moonlighting
Physicians-in-training make a pittance when one looks at the hourly rate, Especially when I was residency, in the early 2000’s. I often worked upwards of ...
Mind The Gap (Ratio)
The phrase was first coined in 1968 as an automated auditory warning to train passengers on the London Underground making them aware of the horizontal and s...
Post FI Anxiety
Many of us feel anxiety on the path to financial independence. These worries mostly stem from the fidelity of our quest. Will we truly make it? How long w...
The Value of Chores
Today in Chicago is a snow day. The Kiddos jumped for joy when they learned that their school doors would not be opening this morning. Yours truly, however...
When The Thrill is Gone
I used to love art work. In fact, I loved it so much that I started a side hustle as an art mogul. It was easy to learn the business because I was enthrall...
The Lazy Side Hustle
I have heard this plea so often, It is no wonder there are many *how to* blog posts trying to answer this exact question. As helpful as they may be, most of...
Milestones: Money is Not a Goal, Financial Independence Not a Destination
I sign a lot of death certificates. Working in nursing homes and hospice, it is not uncommon to fill out one or two a day. Every day. While this practice ...
Afraid to be the Boss? Enrich Others Faster Than Yourself
After finishing my residency in internal medicine, I took a job as a hospitalist at a local hospital. Not more than a month into my new practice, I knew tha...
Three Roads for Three Brothers
There was once three brothers who set off on the journey of a lifetime by embarking on three separate roads. Each brother was uniquely different, and quickl...
Oh, The Money You’ll Save!
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