My Working Retirement
My Working Retirement As you might have guessed, I am not a big fan of the traditional concept of retirement. When it comes to the financial independence community especially, many choose to work at...
Category: Career
My First Lesson in Business
My First Lesson in Business The trap had been set. I arranged my baseball cards in the three boxes that I had arranged in a circle around my bedroom floor. I checked again to...
The Five Stages of Coping With Financial Independence
The Five Stages of Coping With Financial Independence I stumbled and I bumbled. I staggered and I sputtered. And then I fell down a hole. A dark chasm. With neither sight nor sound, debased...
When Enough Isn’t Enough
When Enough Isn’t Enough I never had enough. Connor vaguely heard the words as they spilled out of his grandfather, the patriarch’s mouth, and formed a forgotten puddle on the unforgiving linoleum. He sighed...
Do You Run a Financially Independent Business?
Do You Run a Financially Independent Business? Although I would never describe the business of primary care medicine as cutting edge, there are a number of innovations that have come and gone during my short...
The Once I Have Syndrome
The Once I Have Syndrome There was once a little boy who looked longingly at the immense, vast world and wondered about all its uncertainty. Like most young children, he wanted nothing more than...
The Underdog Phenomenon
The Underdog Phenomenon We frame our lives. We look at the past under certain lenses that help us not only understand but also cope with that which has befallen us. Both successes and failures...
The Lazy Side Hustle Shuffle
The Lazy Side Hustle Shuffle Everybody knows that I am a big fan of the side hustle. Finding a revenue stream outside the traditional W2 can do nothing but boost the path to financial...
Hey Young World
Hey Young World I was a child of the eighties. Like many of my peers, life lessons not only came from school and our parents, but also from the rarefied lyrics of rap music....
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...
