The other day, I was listening to one of my favorite podcasts, Martinis and Your Money. It was the monthly happy hour episode, where the host, Shannon McLay, talks about a financial topic with a few of her friends. In this particular episode, they were talking about the importance of community. This got me thinking about my community. It made me reflect on how important community is to me, but it also made me realize how much my community has changed in the last few years. I started contemplating why this was so, and every reason kept circling back to when I started embracing slow financial independence (slow FI).
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Is It Time To Get Rid Of Expectations?
I’ve been thinking a lot this week about expectations. How we all have them. How unhelpful they are. How Buddhist thought says they are a major cause of human suffering. How they relate to my financial independence journey. We are all littered with expectations every day. But how does that go for us? If expectations are met, we are left feeling happy and fulfilled. But if our expectations aren’t met, which so often is the case (because, let’s be honest, usually we have no control over this), we are left feeling at best empty and sad and at worst resentful or even depressed. So, what’s the point? Is it time to get rid of expectations for good?
Continue reading “Is It Time To Get Rid Of Expectations?”That’s Not A Professor’s Car!
That is literally what someone, actually the husband of a good friend, said to me one day when I showed up to their house after getting my first big-time, adult Professor job. It was 2015. I had just gotten out of my 2002 Toyota Camry, which was given to me by my dad when I graduated from college in 2009, when I was greeted with this exclamation. “That’s not a professor’s car!” I was completely caught off guard by it. I had no idea how to respond, but I’m sure I just shrugged it off with something like “oh, I’m sure I’ll get a new car soon”. This experience, my friends, is a huge part of what’s wrong with our society!
Continue reading “That’s Not A Professor’s Car!”The Power Of Living Intentionally
I’ve written in the past about spending intentionally, but today I want to go a bit broader. Today I want to talk about living intentionally. Do you live intentionally? Or maybe you’re wondering, what does it mean to live intentionally?
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