Take Ownership, And Have Understanding
My Mom and Dad were in the front seat of the car, we were in a hospital parking lot. My mom was sobbing. They just found out my brother had diabetes, type-1. He was 3 years old. It’s my earliest...
Category: outdoors and health
Choose Courage, Get Uncomfortable
“Turtles are slow.” I was staring at the sentence in fear. I tried to read it out loud but just couldn’t get the first word out. Sweat started forming on my forehead and I started to panic. “Just start reading...
Three Ways To Approach A Mindful Simple Life With Less
Happy Monday folks, this is a short post to announce that I have a guest post today on Mindful Explorer @ ChrisIstace.com! Well, I have one-third of a guest post. The coolest part is the post is actually a joint...
How Isaac Newton Is Linked To Your Finances
A body in motion stays in motion. A body at rest stays at rest. Newton’s first law of motion governs every object in the cosmos from a physical standpoint. Interestingly, it seems to be a good predictor of other things...
That Time I Spent $44,000 On A Two Week Vacation
Getting to financial independence is difficult, especially in a luxury-demanding, spendy culture. If you’re budgeting, living frugally, investing, and trying to increase your earnings, then you’re checking the major boxes and are on a path to FI. But are you...
Failure And The Art Of Abseiling
This post is about failure. Yes I know. That’s a topic that’s been written about quite often. J Money over at Budgets Are Sexy did a cool post a little while back listing out some major failures in his life...
Financial Independence? Go Take A Hike….
In the realm of professional athletes, the big sports come to mind first for most folks. Football, baseball, basketball, etc….. the “stick and ball” sports. Then there are second and third-level sports such as cycling or maybe track and field...
Black Friday Sale Today, All Nature – FREE! Limited Time!
Today I have a short post with a strong message (I hope). This blog isn’t monetized so I’m definitely not going to get paid for trying to spread the #OptOutside message on Black Friday. REI, the huge outdoor retailer, is...
The Accidental FIRE Journey
It was suggested that since this is a new blog I should probably give a bit more detail about my story. My “Start Here” page covers to purpose of the blog but I’d like to explain more of my journey...
The Original Dirtbag
If you’re not a climber, you’ve probably never heard of Fred Beckey. That’s understandable, it’s a fringe sport and famous climbers are few and far between to the general populace. It’s too bad since climbing, both rock/ice and mountaineering, is...
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