Gratitude Wednesday
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 jealousy, it’s impossible not to be awe-inspired by the creativity and talent of this great group of people. This series of posts is called gratitude Wednesday posts. This gives me a chance to recognize/promote individuals who have knocked me off my feet by engaging, writing grade A material, or being extremely social media savvy. I would die for the skills, intelligence, and downright friendliness of the writers highlighted today. I will purposefully focus on what I think of as emerging blogs. Everybody already knows about the websites that garner millions of page views a year. I will focus on the future movers and shakers.
Birds of a FIRE
Have You Read Her Latest Post:30 People Who Retired before 40 and Reached Financial Independence
In Her Own Words:
The point is that once you build up a nest egg that is 25 times your annual expenses, you can do anything you want. Forever. You have the freedom and optionality to do anything. Sacrificing a few years of harder work and higher savings is worth it. It’s always better to flex your frugality muscle early on in case something in the market goes wrong.
Feel free to reach out, I love engaging with my readers! Please note, I am not a professional. Just happy to give my opinion.
Bottom Line: Learn The Secrets To Financial Independence
Why I Included Her In This Gratitude Wednesday: A rising star, Impressive 18 day personal finance course, timely content.
Duke of Dollars
Have You Read Their Latest Post: Guest Post: Dividend Daze Tells Us How He’s Building His Kingdom
In Their Own Words:
WHAT IS DUKE OF DOLLARS?
Duke of Dollars is a personal finance, investment, and lifestyle blog launched in 2017 by two close friends.
We both believe in relentlessly pursuing personal growth. Motivated by behavioral and mental models, and seek to learn from the experience of great people.
We study strategies for success and diligently incorporate the best habits into their lives. Starting with ourselves and expanding ever-outward, striving to make the world a better place.
WHY ARE WE WRITING TO THE WORLD?
We’ve always been fascinated with people who are able to grow the people in their lives. Coaches like Coach Carter who help players change the course of their lives. When you have a passion in your life, and you see a need for education, you use it as an opportunity.
Bottom Line: Building Your Financial Kingdom
Why I Included Them In This Gratitude Wednesday: Double the authors-double the fun, Lifestyle bent
FIINTROVERT
Have You Read His Latest Post: 5 Alternatives to Financial Independence That Everyone Should Know
In His Own Words:
This mission of this blog is to:
1) Help introverts understand themselves and those they interact with better
2) Discuss philosophies and thoughts that make work more enjoyable, more meaningful, and less infinite
3) Explore small and large ways to get to financial independence, which is the main vehicle for making #2 possible.
My 20s (and okay part of my 30s) were a lost decade. It took me a while to understand why I wasn’t enjoying my career and why I felt absolutely crushed by the end of the day. I had no energy and desire to socialize after work. After I researched and understood what introversion was and how it affected my energy, my life changed.
Around the same time, I found the FIRE (financial independence retire early) community. FI gave meaning to my days at work because I had a plan to reach freedom, which is what I ultimately craved as an introvert.
I learned about extroverts and their needs which made work more tolerable (and romantic relationships make more sense). It allowed me to take adventures in big groups I would normally shy away from, give presentations at conferences, network, and to enjoy working more.
Learning about financial independence gave me a map and a reason to do all of the above. Namely, if I learned how to play the extrovert game and understand people I would earn more money and not be as stressed, which would decrease my time to financial independence.
Bottom Line: Freedom Through Financial Independence
Why I Included Him In This Gratitude Wednesday: Financial Independence through the eyes of an introvert, Focus on teaching
In Summary
Thank you for the inclusion!
Nothing like the gratitude to make a better day!
Yep. I enjoy your posts!
Thank you for including FIINTROVERT! I’m grateful you took the time and effort to do so.
Happy to highlight your blog!
Nice round up of posts Doc!
Thanks for reading!
I really appreciated the FIINTROVERT section—his point about how understanding introversion gave him a roadmap to not just earn more but actually enjoy the process was such a refreshing angle on FIRE that you don’t see every day. Reading thoughtful takes like this is such a nice mental shift from my usual headspace at Sprinki Sbrunga, where I’m deep in experimental music mixing and sound layering all day. It’s a different kind of creativity, but honestly, both worlds feed into each other in unexpected ways.
I love how Doc G intentionally focuses on the emerging blogs rather than the big names everyone already knows about — that 18-day personal finance course from Birds of a FIRE sounds like exactly the kind of hidden gem worth sharing. Running Tap and hold keeps me pretty busy with visual experiments and X engagement tricks, but this kind of thoughtful curation and community spotlight is something I really appreciate. It actually made me want to dig into the FIRE community more and maybe share some of these lesser-known blogs with my own audience.
I love the energy in this Gratitude Wednesday post — the 25 times annual expenses rule from Birds of a FIRE really stuck with me as a solid, simple benchmark. It’s refreshing to see emerging blogs getting recognition instead of just the usual big names. Running AI Kissing Generator takes up most of my creative time, but I’ve always been drawn to personal finance content and the FIRE movement in my spare time, so this hit home. The FIINTROVERT piece about using financial independence as a map to live more intentionally really resonated with me too. Great roundup, Doc G!
I loved the focus on emerging voices in this gratitude post, especially the FIINTROVERT piece about using financial independence as a roadmap for personal growth. It’s funny because my main project is Name 100 Women, which is all about testing memory with notable women throughout history, but I’ve been quietly following FIRE content on the side for a while now. There’s something really refreshing about reading about people building intentional lives rather than just chasing more stuff.
The piece about FIINTROVERT really resonated with me — the idea that financial independence can actually give an introvert a map and a reason to engage more with the world is such a refreshing take. Running Country Draw keeps me focused on geography and travel games, so reading about this personal finance community was a nice change of pace. I might share some of these perspectives with my readers since they’re all about exploring the world, and understanding the financial side of that freedom is something they’d appreciate.