It’s a new year and time to do my annual business review. If you’re not familiar with my story I semi-retired to 20 hours a week at my main job in 2017 after reaching financial independence years before. Since then...
Regular readers have heard me mention it before, but if you’re not one of them, this blog is slowly dying. My traffic numbers peaked in late 2020 and have been steadily declining since. Perhaps it’s warranted and the quality of...
It’s a new year and time to do my annual business review. If you’re not familiar with my story I semi-retired to 20 hours a week at my main job in 2017 after reaching financial independence years before. Since then...
Last year while on a bike ride something really cool stopped me in my tracks. I passed a parked car with a bunch of outdoor sports-type stickers on it’s back window and one of them was my design – out...
The more I develop my graphic design business the more I’m convinced that earning money from royalties is a magic trick. If you’re not familiar with how my business works, I simply create digital graphic designs and upload them to...
In 1977 Fleetwood Mac released what would become one of the biggest selling rock albums of all time. Depending on which list you believe and how it calculates sales, their classic Rumours has sold over 40 million copies and is...
Recently I told a cycling friend of mine how much I made selling graphic designs online last year and she was impressed. She said “I’ve always wanted to do that, but I suck at it”. I replied “I sucked, and...
In 2018 after achieving financial independence and blasting well past my so-called FI number, I was comfortably semi-retired and working part time. But I was also upset. Two years prior I started putting serious time into my graphic design side...
Regular readers know I semi-retired to 20 hours a week at my main job in 2017 after reaching financial independence years before. Since then much of my newly freed time has been spent on what started as a fun side...
By now you’ve undoubtedly heard about the Great Resignation, a term coined by an economist this past April which saw a record-breaking number of “quits”. The number of resignations increased each month this year, and in August alone 4.3 million...
It’s the fall of 2021 and I can’t believe I’ve been in semi-retirement for 4 years. I’ve worked 20 hours a week during that time, so I’ve essentially put in 2 years of work where others have put in 4...
The other day on my run a Bob Dylan song came on, followed by ones from Tom Petty and Stevie Nicks. During the Stevie song I thought how all three of them – Dylan, Petty, and Nicks, would have never...
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2024 Activity Tracker
Cycling: 4703 Miles
Running: 278 Miles
Hiking: 33 Miles
Paddling: 83 Miles
Climbing Days: 1
2023 Activity Tracker
Cycling: 5400 Miles
Running: 472 Miles
Hiking: 37 Miles
Paddling: 96 Miles
Climbing Days: 6
2022 Activity Tracker
Cycling: 5408 Miles
Running: 321 Miles
Hiking: 43 Miles
Paddling: 40 Miles
Climbing Days: 7
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