I’ve been seeing a lot of posts on Instagram lately with personal finance content creators listing their top money mistakes. They range from the more simple, like buying an expensive piece of clothing they never wore or not investing sooner, to more substantial like buying individual stocks they wish they hadn’t, panic selling their shares, or taking on a loan to start a business or side hustle that didn’t work out. All these different posts/examples/graphics have got me thinking about the words we choose to use in these situations, particularly the words mistake and regret. How we use them, what they mean to us, and how they serve us in the world.
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Are We Too Scared For Slow FI?
I think it’s gotten pretty clear that I love to talk about slow FI (financial independence) on the blog. Slow FI resonates with me more than any other aspect of FI I’ve seen. Coined by The Fioneers, slow FI is a mindset related to taking a slower path to FI, using the financial freedom we gain along the way to FI to live our best lives now. But for many of us, how we may want to live our best lives now feels strange. It’s likely different than what “everyone else is doing”. It goes against the grain. It’s vulnerable. So, the question I’m going to be mulling over today on the blog is, are we too scared for a slow FI lifestyle?
Continue reading “Are We Too Scared For Slow FI?”Takeaways From My One-Year Blogiversary!
I can’t believe it, but it’s officially been one year since I published my first post on this blog. Where has the time gone? It feels equally fast and like I’ve been doing this forever.
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This past summer, I read and very much enjoyed the book Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less by Greg McKeown. From this book, I learned a fun fact about the Oscars. I learned that since 1981, every film that has won Best Picture (which many argue is the most coveted award of the whole show) has also been nominated for Best Film Editing. The 2 awards are strongly correlated. In short, you could say a good movie is well edited.
The same can be said for life. Imagine if your life was your version of a Best Picture. To live your best life, it is also important to be really good at editing that life.
Continue reading “Be The Editor Of Your Own Life”My Why For Slow FI: Health, Connection, and Contribution
As another month comes along and the days and weeks keep rolling by, I’ve been thinking a lot lately about my “why” for my financial independence journey. After setting my goals for the year, but now considering a work change and feeling unsure about how to handle the golden handcuffs, I’ve found the thing that helps the most is to remember my why. For a long time, my why has been hard to articulate. It’s been more of just a feeling, a knowing beneath the surface. But I think I’m finally ready to put it into words.
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