I’ve been reading The Childfree Guide to Life and Money. Great book so far. It mentioned you spend 1/3 of your day at work. Others, not me, because I’m FIREd. I was thinking this should be more like HALF your week-LIFE is consumed by work stuff. I decided to do my own calculation on the […]
Sometimes something I’ve read and heard discussed over and over and over–that I discounted as “not my thing,” jumps up and hits me in the side of the head with a flash of realization. I will say that I’m not someone who locks into my position/opinion and stays with that mindset as long as possible. […]
Today in my “commute” I was thinking through the Ben Franklin quote I just read about “Don’t put off until tomorrow what you can do today.” I started thinking about being “busy” or “too busy” again and the slant of being non-productive, or not fully productive. Lazy vs Lazer focused on what I want? I […]
I have thought through many usage models for our savings/assets. How should we pay for our life expenses and desires over time? We all know about the 4% rule of thumb, other Safe Withdrawal Rate research—and a famous blog series —, various guardrails, the wing it methods, the MDF and Fun Number, the Base Great […]
Do you wonder about things? Do you find yourself googling and gathering data and turning that data into information? Do you enjoy building up knowledge, skills, and abilities over time? Do you find satisfaction in understanding more things? I have really noticed my interest in Curiosity. I love getting information about everything. There is so […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]