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Is Your Mindset Holding You Back?
On May 6th 1954 Roger Bannister ran a mile in 3 minutes 59.4 seconds. The 4 minute mile, one of the biggest holy grails of athletic achievement that had been pursued since 1886, finally fell. For 68 years thousands of...
Things I Don’t Miss About Working Full Time
If you’re a new reader and not familiar with my backstory, in a nutshell I became financially independent in my mid-40’s and went down to 20 hours a week at my W2 job. I now spend the newly freed half...
First The Latte Factor, Now The Coffee Factor
Recently a short video from Suze Orman created a bit of a controversy on social media. Granted everything is a controversy on social media these days, but I found this one particularly interesting. Orman recorded a short video called “how...
Where You Work Matters, Choose Carefully
Jobs and opportunity are often a major factor that prompt people to move to another city or part of the country. After all, unless you have a big inheritance or have won the lottery, work is an essential prerequisite to...
Are Renting And Sharing The New Owning?
My lawnmower was manufactured when Ronald Reagan was still in his first term. My grandmother bought it new and I inherited it after she passed, and I’m still using it today. It’s literally cut hundreds of millions of blades of...
How I Practice Mindfulness
As regular readers know I’m an outdoor sports junkie. One of the biggest drivers for me to work less is to free up time to enjoy the natural wonders of this amazing starship we call Earth. Whether it be rock...
I’m Not A Pothead But I Might Be A Burnout
The big work related news of the week is the World Health Organization has now officially listed burnout as an “occupational syndrome”. In the eleventh edition of the agency’s manual called the International Classification of Diseases (ICD), the WHO claims...
Why Financial Independence Is More Valuable To A Blue Collar Worker
Jobs are traditionally grouped into two main categories, white collar and blue collar. White collar work is generally defined as work being performed in an office setting that does not require manual labor. For all my post-college life I’ve done...
Find Out If Your Neighborhood Is Getting Richer Or Poorer
Is your Census tract getting richer or poorer? Well great news readers, I found just the mapping tool to tell you. The University of Minnesota Law School’s Institute on Metropolitan Opportunity has a nifty interactive map that shows areas that...
Have Patience With Your Side Hustle
As regular readers know my main side hustle right now is selling graphic designs online. It’s something I really love, mainly because it’s 100% self-paced and almost completely passive. I create a design and upload it to various websites, and...
My Post-Retirement Gig – Heavy Machine Operator
Artificial Intelligence and technology are rapidly changing jobs and the future of work. The job environment that will exist when you reach financial independence or retire will be very different, perhaps to your advantage. This post is the latest in...
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