FIRE.186 Freedom On Trial

BAM!  Normal life startled me this morning. 6:30a this morning came around too early.  It wasn’t that it was earlier—or much earlier—than I often wake up, but rather the fact that it was my alarm buzzing away that upset me. I was jolted by the sound of my distant path.  I was required to be …Read More

FIRE.176 Full Time Free Time

The concept of Full Time Free Time flew out of my mouth on a Zoom the other day.  I thought, yep, that’s how I roll.  I think it sums up what my LifeInFIRE is all about.  I’m aware that others may get different results. Free time can be used for anything.  You can do nothing …Read More

FIRE.169   First period

The first shift when I play hockey is a shock to the system.  I go from a nice, slow warm-up with a few laps and some stick handling/shooting activities to a FULL SPEED puck-chasing body-bumping-heart pumping effort.  My whole energy system jumps into a this-again mode. Normal Morning That is similar to the first morning …Read More

FIRE.152 Anything

Somehow along the way I’ve become encircled with gratitude. While I do take the moments after reaching my first-morning consciousness to take some breathes and appreciate my morning/day/life, I also have other gratitude times. I know, I know, again with my “commute,” but when I’m sitting in my spa, or on my patio each—and every—morning …Read More

FIRE.134 First thing in the morning

Before you get to your Daily schetchle… One of the amazing values in retirement is the awakening process.  You know, the process between when you begin to enter a coherent state, and when you are upright and doing things. Sometimes I lay in bed until 8 am relaxing, thinking, gratituding, planning my amazing day, or …Read More

FIRE.123 35-50

During my morning “commute” time I was thinking how BAM, the decades seem to have disappeared. To be more precise, it almost seems like I jumped from 35 years-old to 50 years-old in a matter of a few years, at most.  I feel my wife and I lose track of seasons (and years?) because of …Read More

FIRE.117 I’m Rich…in Time

There is one impossibly strong force that bounds all of us and it’s not gravity, it’s time. No matter who you are you have limited time! I just realized my shift in thinking this morning on my “commute” (sitting in my spa).  I had previously considered health to be the most important factor in life.  …Read More

FIRE.113 What a Morning

Life In FIRE example.  Today is Saturday.  Yes, I know in FIRE “every day is Saturday.”  But today really is Saturday and my morning was typical, but this specific morning, I took specific notice of its amazement. Today I woke up feeling nicely rested after sleeping in a little.  I woke up naturally.  It was …Read More