The Complicity of Enough
The Complicity of Enough We are complicit. All of us in the personal finance community. We talk about enough as if it is a static goalpost. A place we arrive at after years of...
Tagged: Emotional Construct
Financial and Emotional Crossroads
Financial and Emotional Crossroads I have been writing a lot about the future of the financial independence movement lately. I have described what I think is the financial independence 2.0 era and what embracing...
Managing Your Money
Managing Your Money It was Captain DIY who said it. I looked up at him across the table questioningly and repeated his words. Managing your money is like plugging a desk lamp into itself....
Two Steps From Crazy
Two Steps From Crazy I suspect that at any given time I am about two steps from crazy. Thus I have found it beneficial to fashion my own leash to allow only one more...
YOLO is a No No
YOLO is a No No I have written in the past about the opportunity cost fallacy. In brief, there is an argument that luxury spending saps wealth by obliterating the compounding effect of the...
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...
Growing Up Next Door to the Joneses
Growing Up Next Door to the Joneses In the financial independence world, we love to talk metaphorically about the Joneses. These are the people who we, often in an unhealthy manner, compare ourselves to...
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...
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...
My Financial Independence Legacy
My Financial Independence Legacy I am a product of those who came before me. I am second generation FI. My peculiar way of looking at finances, and my path to financial freedom have grown...
