What’s Our Money Really For? // There’s More to Life Than Future Goals
When you're saving like crazy for early retirement, any money not going into the savings pool can feel like a setback. But there's more to life than just future goals, and those goals should never...
View ArticleConquering Impatience on the Road to Financial Independence
We'd all love it to be otherwise, but getting to big financial goals is mostly a matter of letting time pass. Rather than sit around feeling impatient all the time, and let that suck the joy out of the...
View ArticleMake Sure Your Vision Includes Joyful Generosity
Thinking about how we want to be remembered, we always come back to this idea of leaving the world in better shape than we found it, even if it's only in little ways. And as early retirees, we'll be in...
View ArticleFinancial Independence Means No More Excuses
We all know that tomorrow is not a guarantee, but let's be practical. We simply can't do everything. But sometimes we let that fact be the source of extra excuses -- excuses not to focus enough on...
View ArticleHow Will It Feel to Actually Spend Our Investments?
We've spent more than a decade building up our savings and investments, all the while granting them a special status by not touching them. Even shelling out $8,000 for our tax bill this year felt...
View ArticleDon’t Wait. Do It Now.
The massacre in Orlando reminds us that nothing is guaranteed, and while we can't do everything, we can do those things that are most important. So today, a call to action. Whatever you've been putting...
View ArticleEmbodying Our Best Selves Way Before We Reach Early Retirement
If you've been reading here, it will come as no surprise that we care a lot more about happiness than we do about money. And happiness doesn't happen by accident. For us, happiness right now means not...
View ArticlePlanning for Social Interaction in Early Retirement // You Need New Friends!
Something we need to plan for better is how we'll get social interaction after we leave the workforce. In other words: We need more friends! Soon, we'll have our best free time when our current friends...
View ArticleThe Peril of Second-Guessing Decisions
It's so easy to second-guess our past decisions, or to blame ourselves when things don't turn out as we'd hoped. We've recently had a reminder in real life of why it's so much better to let that stuff...
View ArticleA Life of Yes // Our Early Retirement Aspiration
Right now we're living a life of no. Work is sucking up almost all of our time, and we're turning down invitations to do all the things we'd rather be doing than working. Our aspiration: switch to a...
View ArticleThe World Is Speeding Up. We’re Eager to Slow Down.
This Labor Day, we're reflecting on the ever-speeding progress of labor and productivity in the developed world, and looking at our own longing to slow things way, way down. Can you relate? We bet you...
View ArticleTo Care or Not To Care // The Work Mindset As Retirement Nears
One of my favorite parts of FinCon was getting the chance to talk to bloggers who are ahead of us on their FIRE journeys, including several who are already retired. I asked them all if their last year...
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