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 time percentage by day that work takes up.
Continue readingMy month started quite simply – the first two weekends would be spent attending CampFI Rocky Mountain Colorado. I’d also have a nice 4 days in between in Longmont, CO, the Mecca of FI life.
Just days before the camps began, I decided to change from weekend 2 to mid-week 1.5 with a return to Phx , then the beach in the days after.
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Going into retirement can be like a sonic boom. You’re in a plane and you’re increasing speed heading toward this amazing, very new goal/threshold. As you reach the goal/event (retirement) there is a huge reverberation that shakes everything around you.
Continue readingThis post will interrupt my previously scheduled post/thought workflow.
LifeInFIRE is ALIVE again. Crashed, moved, updated, new and improved.
Wow, when in the zone, when in a flow state, with nobody around to interrupt you, it is a magical place. A place that I hadn’t been in for a long time. I didn’t expect to be encompassed in the zone today.
Rarely do I get so into something that I lose track of time. I usually tend to jump from activity to activity every 30-45 minutes or so just because I think “Oh, that is what I want to do now.”
Continue readingI’ve been posting about aFunDance and Bias for Action and how it relates to me. This is not really about those around me, but about my own life enjoyment and happiness. I don’t discount other people when I’m considering how I distribute my energy, but I mostly very absolutely think of things I’d enjoy first.
Continue readingI’ve shared my thought that maybe Curiosity can replace Purpose.
Over the past 6+ months with that thought, I’ve realized that for me, yes, curiosity is more my internal driver than finding or having some kind of purpose. Maybe that is true because I’m introverted and feel my satisfaction and energy come from within, far more than any external factors. Maybe I just don’t know good examples of internal purpose.
Continue readingSometimes 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. I definitely like to get new data and reprocess my thinking to see if my position still seems valid or if I need to update/change my thinking.
Continue readingSo again, today I was evaluating an Amazon purchase and trying to decide which item/version was the best for the price. I realized about 10 minutes into my research I needed to stop digging in and just buy the damn thing and not waste my time being an idiot.
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