Did you ever have something huge explode from the simplest of things? Maybe a life change from some small occurrence. Maybe a new friendship from crossing paths accidentally. Maybe a new job from a chance meeting. Maybe your relationship from a little spark? Sometimes acting on that one simple thing may lead to something great. […]
Are you on track? Are you moving along the path you have planned or the path you want to head down? Drift Like in surfing, where you’re sitting in the lineup, outside the break, you feel like you’re stationary in one place. Yet, after a while, you notice the current has drifted you up/down the […]
I’ve definitely come to learn that having “all the time…” is not enough time to get things done. I have so many things I want to do, to work on, to learn, etc. I’d like to: become proficient with music recording, learn more foreign language words (not learn “a” language-whom I kidding), learn more technical […]
I think I’ve fine-tuned a previous thought. I hear non-stop all these people saying FIRE is bad and “retiring” should not be the goal and it probably isn’t good for you, blah, blah, blah. Let me tell you what’s not the best for someone; going to work every day and giving away the majority of […]
If you are lucky enough to live full-time, free time as I talked about in my last post/thought, how do you organize your time? Or do you even need to manage your time? There’s a lot of discussion in my $lackers group about purpose and passion. Over the years we pretty much decided that as […]
Last post I wrote about two of my cool accidental jobs. In this post, I’ll share my coolest accidental job. Relevance I read a LOT of articles about money and retirement. I also think a lot. For instance, as I typed the previous sentences I realized that the word “read” could be current or past […]
In the midst of my afternoon brain-chilling, cooling, relaxing—not quite meditating time, I realized I’ve hit 8 years in FIRE. I’m now well beyond any 7-year itch or stretch. I was thinking, that if I were an “ordinary” retiree at age 65, then I would be into my RMD phase and having to do extra […]
FIRE allows me time freedom, or more specifically, schetchle freedom. Let me continue to expound on my travels—post Palo Alto Tech Bro observation. Much like a wanderer but with a more defined route, I sketched out a 2 or 3-week road trip. This trip was quite honestly one that had been on my ToDo list […]
I have an observation today that is far from my normal thoughts—it’s even geographically distant. I was able to take a long “schetchled” trip driving the west coast from San Francisco to Portland. I’ll write more about that next time. Today’s thought came about before I even arrived in San Francisco. Being a tech guy—apparently, […]
Fritz recently posted his retirement reality vs his retirement vision and Kevin Lyles suggested some of us share our retirement reality vs retirement vision. I sat back, reached my arms up in a nice stretch and thought “hmmm, how does this all line up?) Initially, I was thinking this would be an exciting exercise comparing […]