And here are the lineups for the week! Build a Life You’ll Never Retire From (Montana Money Adventures) “Financial freedom makes your best life possible, but it doesn’t make it happen. You make those things happen. And they all require hard work and intention.” One of our favourite blogs and the one which introduced us…
And here are the lineups…. How to Retire in Your 30s With $1 Million in the Bank (New York Times) “The whole retire early thing is unimportant to me. It’s more about gaining control of your time,” Mr. Rieckens said. “If you dive into the definition of retirement, what you’re retiring from is mandatory labor.…
And here are the lineups …. The Power of Incrementalism (Passive Income NZ) “Everyone has the impression that it is impossible to save for retirement. And this is true if you start at age 50. But if you start in your twenties and every year contribute a small amount and invest those savings into an…
And I am headed towards the tail end of my sabbatical, I am feeling a lot more refreshed and energised. Granted that I am suffering from stiff shoulders these days from constantly carrying a growing baby, all things considered, I would think that the overall benefits outweigh the cost(most predominantly, the loss of income). Looking…
And here are the lineups… Should You Focus on Making More or Spending Less? (Retire by 40) “Should you focus on making more or spending less? This is a trick question. You need to work on making more AND spending less. Everyone should focus on increasing their saving rate instead of picking one side over…
And here are the lineups… The Forever Fallacy (Get Rich Slowly) “The key thing to understand is that everything changes. You change. Your circumstances change. The people around you change. Nothing is forever. The challenge then is to balance this concept — everything changes — with living in the present. You must learn to enjoy today while…
Power is the ability to control your own life (The Escape Artist) “I had always assumed power meant having status and income, influence and external rewards. Ralph had all of them. Yet up close he didn’t seem very powerful. I started asking whether power meant, rather, the ability to control my own life.” When the…
And here are the lineups… The things that early retirement won’t fix (Think Save Retire) “After retiring from work at the age of 35, I’ve discovered that early retirement isn’t some instant-fix to all of life’s problems. It’s not that calamine lotion elixir stuff that seems to make everything it touches feel better.” Early retirement…
In a recent post by SimplyJesMe, Jes discussed the reasons for having/not having a second kid based on surveying the people around her. And the top four reasons are: Not enough love Not enough attention Scared of pain Not enough money I would think that the first two can be grouped together. According to the…
And here are the goodies… It’s Time to Kick the Bucket List (Wall Street Journal) “Bucket lists often become obsessive, expensive, painful. They create the impression that life is not so much something to be lived and enjoyed as a series of onerous obligations to be checked off.” Bucket list seems to be something of…