Post Early Retirement Anxiety
Post Early Retirement Anxiety I have never considered myself an anxious person. Sure, I felt stress from time to time during my full time career. I might wake up with a queasy feeling in...
Category: Anxiety
Getting to Acceptance
Getting to Acceptance I have spent a lot of time in the last few months thinking about financial peace. A place where a healthy dose of money apathy leads to an existence untethered from...
Silencing My Inner Voice
Silencing My Inner Voice I have talked in the past about feeling like a financial independence fake. We all feel this way sometimes. The impostor syndrome is real and often hard to escape for...
Financial Independence Fake
Financial Independence Fake I am a financial independence fake. A coward. Here I have been spouting off about my half retirement. Bragging about life changes and am moving on to an existence of...
Financial Independence and Mental Health
Financial Independence and Mental Health I have talked in the past about the money mind meld. Basically, the realization that I was financially independent came to me suddenly, and hit me like a ton...
Financial Independence Losses
Financial Independence Losses We love to talk about what we have gained with financial independence. The list is oft recounted on blog after blog. Some have suggested that we even have gained time, though...
When it Came to Bad Habits, Food Was My Money
Food Was My Money I am lucky. In fact, when it comes to finances, the only reason I’m not a moron is that I was born to good parents. They taught me both didactically...
Success Is not the Best End Game
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...
The Many Benefits of A Crisis
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...
Dying Poor In America
Dying Poor In America Signing the divorce papers was probably Charlie’s lowest point. His wife sitting by his side, occasionally she would swat at the air at some invisible fly buzzing around the room....
