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2018
Curing The Financial Independence Hangover
As a young medical student and resident, I always approached call days with a mix of fear, anxiety, and loathing. After working 36 hours straight, one could...
The Importance of Female Role Models
There is no doubt about it, I am my mother’s son. What would you expect? My father died when I was eight years old. During my formative years, I was broug...
Travel Is Not My Why
If you ask a swath of people in the financial independence community, a large percentage will list travel as one of the top three reasons they are pursuing f...
The Benefit of Half Retirement
I have a secret. I don’t need to work anymore. Based on my calculations, I should be able to weather most post retirement sequence of returns scenarios. I...
Mindset Bests Skill Set
I have been thinking quite a bit about yesterday’s post. While true, just being open will help opportunities come, there has to be something more to succes...
Opportunities Will Come
I like to talk about intentionality. It was always my intention to be successful whether career wise or financially. So I built a future and skill set base...
It’s the People
I am a different person than I was one year ago. Although my financial position has not changed drastically, almost everything else has. I have let go of a...
Evolving Towards Inefficiency
I am all about efficiency. I am all about optimization. The only reason I have been able to make this journey to financial independence and half retirement...
The Reintegration Zone
The panic hit suddenly. I scanned my phone anxiously as all the bars disappeared. No signal! I looked around the auditorium. We were deep in the bowels o...
Happy Stealthy Holidays
Hanukkah is upon us and Christmas is around the corner. And don’t forget all those New Year’s parties. Although I am far from a stealth wealth expert, this...
What I’ll Miss Most
This weekend was bliss. I went from Friday night to Monday morning without a single phone call. No nursing homes needing to send a patient to the emergency...
Transforming Habits
You can say it is not about money. You can scream it over the mountaintops and whisper it in the valleys. But no one is going to listen. The arguments abo...
The Overachiever’s Paradox
You have to be somewhat goal oriented to aspire to financial independence or to retire early. Some would say that you have to be an overachiever. There are...
What To Say
I get one question asked to me over and over again. Even in the personal finance world. I get asked on the blog. I get asked when I am a guest on podcasts...
Side Hustle Hurdles
I realize that it has been a long time since I have written about my favorite activity. The truth is, it is hard to really define what a side hustle is anym...
Retirement is More Healthy
It must have been about a decade ago. It was another snowy day like today. I awoke at the break of dawn, and rushed out the door to the hospital that was s...
My Unfair Advantage
I have a confession to make. It almost disqualifies me from writing about personal finance. You see, I have never had a problem with the hedonic treadmill....
Rise
We talk a lot about making the right financial moves. We plot out the common pitfalls and do our best to avoid them. This is the work of planners. Spreads...
If It Weren’t For
A neighbor of my mother’s. Who upon accompanying her to her first party as a freshman at the University of Michigan introduced her to a boy. A boy who was ...
Half Retirement Day Zero
I woke up this morning, for the first time in a while, in absolutely no rush. The alarm still went off at 4:45am but somehow felt different. Instead of goi...
Going Negative
I like to think of myself as a relatively optimistic person. If you have ever met me in person, you might think that I have a pretty sunny disposition on li...
Is Control An Illusion?
I have been talking a lot lately on the blog about control. Between black swan and white swan events it is easy to feel at a total loss at times. Is control...
Lack of Control
Amidst worrying about white swan events and giving myself permission to suck, I have come to some conclusions about the way I work. Struggles with retiremen...
White Swan Events
We spend a lot of time worrying about black swan events. Per Wikipedia these are events that comes as a surprise, have a major effect, and are often inappro...