{These are my personal observations and opinions of the events that took place. I may be wrong} I attended a meeting for a family financial planning education group. I could tell from the pictures this would be some kind of recruitment or sales-y meeting. I had no idea it would make me physically sick to …Read More
I was wondering, at what point of an “oh-shit” disaster could/would cause me to go back to full-time work? Is there a part-time-work crisis level? What about the “I found some cool working opportunity that I like” to do instead of owning ALL of my time? Let’s back up before this moment of FIRE extinguishing. …Read More
Life Is So Great. As I was sitting in the spa (‘Jacuzzi’) at the gym after my lap swim the other day, I did my 10-minute meditation/mindfulness/gratitude session. Somewhere during the swim/meditation, I started thinking about the luxury of being engaged in activities that are of my choosing—for my betterment— at a time that I …Read More
72 hours of amazing! Last weekend I joined 60+ AMAZING people for a weekend of…well, when I really think about it, was a weekend that’s almost indescribable. It was a group of people “taking control of their financial lives in order to build an amazing future.” It was a group of people who have vastly …Read More
I know in so many ways I am frugal, but reading about vacation homes and muscle cars seems to distort the frugal picture. I then started thinking about people who are super frugal and live a VERY low cost of living. Then I wondered if there was an upper-Frugal, a super-frugal.
It’s NEVER just one thing that matters. It’s how the pieces of everything add/work/multiply together to give a higher—or much higher— output. I grew up in the 80s. I was really into hard rock music. Yeah, I knew some of the bands had a couple cool songs, and of course, I knew some were just …Read More