#Fincon18: Beginnings and Endings
#FinCon18: Beginnings and Endings I found myself choking slightly as I wiped the tears from my eyes. I have been crying a lot lately. Not the all out cry, but the blurring of vision...
Category: Calling
A Life Without FI
A Life Without FI Have you ever seen the movie Sliding Doors? The plot centers around a protagonist who stumbles to catch a train, and then the story line bifurcates into two parallel universes based...
Financial Independence is a Lever
Financial Independence is a Lever Do you love your job? My bet is that most people answer no to this basic question. Yet, one of my parent’s financial legacies to me is that they not...
Falling Off the Time Money Continuum
Falling Off the Time Money Continuum Money is time. Time is money. Phrases oft said in the financial independence community and in my opinion(as of late) pure horse pucky. We have somehow mangled the...
Gifts Given and Gifts Taken Away
Gifts Given and Gifts Taken Away There are gifts given and gifts taken away. And Jacob’s abilities could be described as nothing less than a gift. He was a violin virtuoso. Or at...
Don’t Confuse FIRE With Fire
Don’t Confuse FIRE With Fire I love the FIRE (Financial Independence/Retire Early) acronym. Not only does it capture everything in just four letters, the imagery is stunning. The passion and flames of financial independence...
Leap Before You Look
Leap Before You Look Looking over these last few months of blog posts, it is easy to read my content and believe that when it came to my career and wealth building, that I...
The Momentum Effect
The Momentum Effect We have all heard of the one more year phenomena. Financially independent people, such as myself, hit the wall of fear. Although we have enough, we persist in our W2 day job for...
Every Doctor Should Have a Plan B
Every Doctor Should Have a Plan B I’ve written previously that financial independence is plan B. Plan A, of course, is life. Your work and time are precious and life is too short to...
My Deal With The Devil
My Deal With The Devil I made my deal with the devil at eight years old. I had no idea what I was doing. In one fell swoop I mortgaged my youth, my rest,...
