How This Physician Escaped Medicare
How Does a Physician Escape Medicare? I have a confession to make. I have been planning my escape since the first day I set foot in the office as an attending physician. The writing...
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Cheap, Simple, and Easy
Cheap, Simple, and Easy I think it is easy to confuse the trees from the financial forest. In my opinion, financial plans should have roughly four legs. The table should be propped up with...
The Early Retirement Fallacy
The Early Retirement Fallacy You are going to work. When you are young. When you are old. There is no doubt about it. You are going to create some service or product and exchange...
Money Insecurity
Money Insecurity It is easy to paint financial independence as a nirvana. Easy to say that it is a goal that once attained will allay all worries and anxieties. But I think this viewpoint...
Don’t Confuse How With Why
Don’t Confuse How With Why I have to admit that sometimes I am a little redundant on this blog. Although I never want to bore my readers, I find that there are just so...
Should Financial Independence Be a Target?
Should Financial Independence Be a Target? I have mentioned several times on this blog that for me financial independence was quite accidental. Although I had financially responsible parents who were great fiscal models, none...
Financial Independence Losses
Financial Independence Losses We love to talk about what we have gained with financial independence. The list is oft recounted on blog after blog. Some have suggested that we even have gained time, though...
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...
Stealth Work
Stealth Work One of the great benefits of reaching financial independence is the ability to modify work schedules to fit my preferences. Maybe I want to work only certain days of the week. Am...
You Can’t Commoditize Time
You Can’t Commoditize Time Time is money, and money is time. Right? At least that is what the financial independence community espouses as the main thrust of pursuing FI. There is a mistaken belief...
