2025 we hardly knew you. Somehow it’s been both an incredibly long year, and it’s gone bye too fast. I feel like summer happened before I even registered what was going on. And even though we ticked all the boxes for fun fall activities, it was over in a blink. This is going to be… Continue reading 2025 Year in Review
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Net Worth Milestone: Two Million
Unlike the time I became a liquid asset millionaire, I’ve known that August 15 2025 would be a milestone day for quite some time. With the current market, and especially Tech sector turbulence, I didn’t think this would be a sure thing. But the positive market conditions held, despite a 20% drop in my own… Continue reading Net Worth Milestone: Two Million
My Goals for 2025
As is my tradition, I’m going to set some major and minor personal, career and family goals for the year. I’m a little late this year because it’s been a whirlwind holiday season and I just haven’t gotten any time in front of the computer in weeks. This year I have to do some hard… Continue reading My Goals for 2025
2024 Goals Reviewed
Here we are with two weeks remaining in 2024 and I can’t believe how little I posted this year. In my defense, I was out enjoying life for most of the year, and then for the rest of the year I was suffering the fallout of reorg hell. Each year I try to set out… Continue reading 2024 Goals Reviewed
Understanding Provisional Living: Break Free from Future Illusions
A while back I wrote about how the book Die with Zero messed with my head. The long and short is that I spent a lot of years of my life focusing on the future and not paying a lot of attention to the present. I talked about how I gave myself permission to spend… Continue reading Understanding Provisional Living: Break Free from Future Illusions
I’m Doing Enough, I Need to do More
Fair warning, this post is going up as an unpolished stream of consciousness. I took a walk this morning. It wasn’t very long. I walked on my treadmill with the incline set to five while I read a book for 20 minutes. Reading gave me time to think. Then I got on my rower and… Continue reading I’m Doing Enough, I Need to do More
The Big List of Financial Independence and Investing Resources
Friends have started to realize that I’ve managed to make a little money in my life. As such, I keep getting asked about topics like passive income, investing, budgeting, and paying off debt. What I try to explain is that the way I see it, if you want to actually change your financial life, you… Continue reading The Big List of Financial Independence and Investing Resources
What Would You do with $10 Million
I was watching a recent episode of My First Million featuring Nick Gray, who I’d honestly never heard of until this week. Nick is a quirky fellow who seems to throw out ideas like a machine gun, and once again being honest, I kind of like the guy. During the episode, he cited an article… Continue reading What Would You do with $10 Million
Confession: I Started Ordering Guac Every Time
One cliché of the personal finance space is the whole “stop ordering latte’s” thing. I don’t personally care about latte’s, I’m not sure I’ve ever had one, and I trained myself to drink black coffee because anything else seems like wasted calories. Another, more recent cliché is the idea that you’ll know you made it… Continue reading Confession: I Started Ordering Guac Every Time
My New Exercise Routine
One of my goals for the past two years has been to work on the habits of having a healthier lifestyle. I don’t generally set specific health goals of “losing X pounds” or “lifting X weight.” I prefer to work on the habits of eating healthy, reducing alcohol consumption, and making sure I work out… Continue reading My New Exercise Routine
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