My 2025 Was Awesome Let’s Go!
What can I say about 2025? For me it was a really good year. Mainly because 2024 was really shitty, so any movement was likely up. First and foremost in spring of 2025 I fully retired from my long career,...
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Don’t Let Money Be Your God
I’ve written about the almost comical mess of afflictions I had as a kid. I was fat, pigeon toed, buck toothed, pimple-faced, and had a crippling stutter. And that’s just a partial list. But even after I overcame many of...
Striving For Financial Independence? Find Your Tribe
I track my annual cycling, running, hiking, and paddling miles on the right rail of this blog. A significant portion of my readership comes to my blog for content related to health and fitness and my goal in showing my...
The Smugness Of Financial Independence
A few days ago I was on mile 5 of a super early morning run. I don’t like running at 5:30 in the morning, but summers in the D.C. region often make it the best option. With a forecast for...
The Unpaid Work We All Need
What is work and why do we do it? A classic definition of work is “activity involving mental or physical effort done in order to achieve a purpose or result.” Another is “a task or tasks to be undertaken; something...
Overtraining For Financial Independence
“Holy crap” I yelled to my climbing partner Phil, “wait till you see this!”. We were 14 hours into a punishing day of climbing, and I couldn’t believe what I was seeing. While traversing a gully that we weren’t sure...
Optimize Your Money And Health By Becoming A Robot
Last week I posted about the stellar year my business had in 2020. This post is about how I became a robot in the same year. When COVID plowed into our lives and most states instituted some level of stay...
Using Sunk Costs To Your Advantage
Most people have things they’re striving for, things they want to be. For many it’s to lose weight and live healthier. Or maybe it’s to start that successful podcasting business. A common trap in modern society is to look at...
Like Financial Independence There’s More Than One Way To Get In Shape
Did you make a new year’s resolution to get in shape in 2019? Maybe get a new gym membership and really start taking your health seriously? Well, we’re two weeks into the new year, how’s it going so far? The...
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