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...
Category: Coping With Financial Independence
The Five Stages of Financial Independence
The Five Stages of Financial Independence I have talked in the past about coping with financial freedom. Once we reach the mountain top, we undergo a number of emotional changes. It is, however, a...
Margin Without Mission
Margin Without Mission Those of us who are passionate about hospice work often shy away from discussing the economics of the business. Because it is such a mission based field, often it feels distasteful...
Inheriting a Perpetual Money Machine
Inheriting a Perpetual Money Machine I have boasted in the past about not only being second generation FI but also third generation FI. My path to financial independence, however, was not inherited. Although I...
Post FI Challenge
Post FI Challenge I think it shocks my readers when I say that financial independence is something that once reached needs to be coped with. Believe it or not, it takes a little getting...
Is Money Apathy The New Financial Independence?
Money Apathy In a previous post I discussed the magic of market apathy. When your path to financial independence is long-term and you have chosen the right investments, the momentary swings of the stock...
Money Goal or a Rabbit Hole?
Money Goal or a Rabbit Hole? There is no question that I sometimes eschew some basic personal finance principles. I generally feel that we are kidding ourselves with the safe withdrawal rate nonsense. And...
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...
Downsizing to Early Retirement
Downsizing to Early Retirement The term downsizing is usually used in reference to trading a larger house for a smaller one. This makes sense to your average FI minded individual who sees both the...
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...
