Anyone who reads this site knows that I am a big of a proponent of financial independence. However, too much of a good thing can be a bad thing. Today’s post dives into just this topic as we explore how too much focus on financial independence can cause harm.
We all know the feeling of wanting to buy something right now. It might be a house, car, clothes, new phone, or some other gadget. The truth is that impulse buys are usually unhelpful. Today is a lesson on delayed gratification.
We all have our own individual plan. The question remains: How old will I be when I get to financial independence? This post will walk you through my plan and how I plan to get to FI by my mid 40’s. Hopefully, it will help you start thinking about your own plan, too.
A lot of time on this site is spent on personal finance, financial independence, and money. What if I told you that the best investments have nothing to do with any of those things? You might think I’m crazy, but you also might think I’m right.
Today is the third installment of the quarterly net worth update, but it is actually a full year out (I wasn’t blogging during the first quarter) from training at this point. My goal for this time point was to have $100,000 in assets at this point. Two years out I planned to have a positive net worth. To find out how I did, keep reading.
After watching some of their interactions it became clear that something spectacular was happening. The patient was attending their own funeral. They were cognizant enough to have conversations with these people that clearly loved him. They shared memories and times together. What would you discuss if that happened?
I have posted three posts every week for 100 straight posts. This has occurred since the blog started at the very end of November 2017. Today’s post will break away a little bit from our typical content covering wealth building, financial independence, and wealth building topics to follow the progress of both this site. It’ll be fun to look back a few years from now and see where we were at this point. We will discuss traffic, my most popular posts, and much more.
Let’s bring you back to my roots as a philosophy major in college. Everything in philosophy is about “isms.” Some of them are religious philosophies like Buddhism and Judaism, or pluralism versus monotheism. Others are political in nature like communism or fascism. Today we are going to talk about another “ism” that dramatically impacts our ability to build wealth and achieve early financial independence: American exceptionalism.
A recent WSJ article looked into the poverty in our older generation and their inability to retire. It’s important to understand history or else we are doomed to repeat it. Come take a walk with me as we look at the reasons why they are unable to retire and how we can prevent this from happening to the current generations.
I still remember this conversation from the first year of medical school like it was yesterday. Â This was one of the first times in my life someone so profoundly told me “You can’t” or “You won’t” straight to my face.
My oldest kid, little Miss Philosopher has been learning a lesson in 1st grade. Ironically, I’ve been learning the same lesson recently. When people try to define our self-worth and our abilities, I tend to try and turn the page or burn it. What do you do?
Mouse is a self-described husband (to a doctor), father, engineer, and finance blogger. He builds awesome money models to predict the chances people have at successfully reaching their goals. Today, we will see Mouse’s model for me and answer the pen-ultimate question: Will I be able to retire?
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