You Are What You Own
You Are What You Own Pulling into the garage, my wife and I immediately knew something was wrong. The screen door to the back entrance was ajar and we both noticed a whir of...
Tagged: Emotional Construct
The First Year Phenomena
The First Year Phenomena We all have heard of the one more year syndrome. Financially independent individuals with adequate net worth somehow convince themselves to continue in the day-to-day drudgery of their W2 employ....
Tell Yourself The Right Story
Tell Yourself The Right Story We tell ourselves the stories about our life that make it bearable. Or better yet, magical. Mystical. When my father died when I was eight years old, there were...
I Live In A World of Numbers, Financial Independence Is No Different
I Live In a World of Numbers Have you ever verbalized a thought in conversation, and then paused realizing that it is one of those great truths in your life? You might have said...
Less is More
Less Is More Maron could feel the spittle as it pooled in the recesses of his otherwise barren palate. The drool was intolerable. Hunger was an inviolate preaching of the bloody frugality wars of...
The Frugality Wars
The Frugality Wars My mother had a plan. After my father died. She looked at her three young boys and knew what had to be done. This was before my stepfather entered the picture....
What If Your Calling Doesn’t Make You Happy?
What If Your Calling Doesn’t Make You Happy? Financial independence is fantastic. It allows you to wrangle free from the hum-drum existence of the W2 asset class and aspire towards your individual life calling....
The Fire That Burns
Art The fire behind my career as an art mogul came from the pure and unadulterated joy brought from admiring and collecting individual pieces. The business sprung from my attempts to dress the walls...
Financial Independence and the Emotional Construct of Scarcity
The Emotional Construct of Body Image Although since college I have told everybody that I am 6 Feet tall, in reality, It’s closer to 5’11”. A few years ago when I weighed 180 pounds,...
