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...
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Everything She Needed
Everything She Needed She had everything she needed. Her husband had died long ago. But the fortune he left her would suffice. She had given up on mansions long ago. There were no children,...
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...
Introducing The What’s Up Next Podcast
What’s Up Next? Paul Thompson and I are proud to release our first episode of the The What’s Up Next Podcast. This podcast is an exploration of financial independence and taking the conversation to...
Is Blogging Dead?
Is Blogging Dead? Well obviously not if you are reading these words. But the world has changed. Back in 2005 when I started, blogging was a fresh platform to exchange ideas and push content...
Frugality Fails
Frugality Fails I did something completely illogical upon realizing that I was financially independent. I doubled down. I conceived of a plan to slow down at work (which I enjoyed) and plotted up a...
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...
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...
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