Retired Early and Stressed Out Anyway
Retired Early and Stressed Out Anyway Yesterday I used a home as an analogy for retirement. To build a home, one must have a strong foundation. Although an ultimate necessity, this foundation, like financial...
Category: Financial Independence
To Build a Home
To Build a Home It’s a downcast Chicago morning as I duck into the indoor mall to take my morning walk. As so many Halloween’s go, the darkness has begun to set in and...
Time Stress
Time Stress I have two Achilles heals. Two mental health issues that continually challenge me no matter how introspective and self-aware I become. One is food. I have talked before about how food was...
Failure is a Comma, Not an Exclamation Point
Failure is a Comma, Not an Exclamation Point I failed today. That’s right. I had every intention of things going well, and had even gone as far as visualizing how the day was going...
A Second Look at Private School
A Second Look at Private School I have written before about how we broke the budget when we decided to send my daughter to private school. It was a hard decision, but one we...
Not Throwing In The Towel
Not Throwing In The Towel My post about closing the loop yesterday got some interesting comments. I often talk about beginnings and endings in my writing. I like to think that my blog posts,...
Early Retirement and the Efficient Time Frontier
Early Retirement and the Efficient Time Frontier I was trying to make plans with a friend to meet up for coffee the other day. He has been early retired for a few years and...
Flipping The What Ifs
Flipping The What Ifs My life is changing. As I am hurdling towards my half retirement, I have to admit that there is a certain amount of fear and trepidation. While I know that...
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...
What’s Holding You Back?
What’s Holding You Back I have talked in the past about how on this blog I try to tackle the philosophy of financial independence. Part of the reason is that there are so many...
