Evolving Towards Inefficiency
Evolving Towards Inefficiency I am all about efficiency. I am all about optimization. The only reason I have been able to make this journey to financial independence and half retirement is that I have...
Category: Half Retirement
The Reintegration Zone
The Reintegration Zone The panic hit suddenly. I scanned my phone anxiously as all the bars disappeared. No signal! I looked around the auditorium. We were deep in the bowels of my daughter’s school...
Retirement is More Healthy
Retirement is More Healthy It must have been about a decade ago. It was another snowy day like today. I awoke at the break of dawn, and rushed out the door to the hospital...
Half Retirement Day Zero
Half Retirement Day Zero I woke up this morning, for the first time in a while, in absolutely no rush. The alarm still went off at 4:45am but somehow felt different. Instead of going...
Post Half Retirement Schedule
Post Half Retirement Schedule I have mentioned in the past about how all good financial plans have at least four legs. These include a W2, real estate, stocks and bonds, and side hustles. Similarly,...
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...
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...
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...
The Mechanics of Half Retirement
Half Retirement As I’ve stated before, I am all about the philosophy of financial independence. The so called why of FI. Thus, I have warned readers not to expect to read much here about...
