I can’t believe it, but it’s happened! My biggest financial independence (FI) goal since starting this blog, Flamingo FI (in other words, half of the traditional FI number, or one-half of 25x yearly expenses), has been achieved! Read on to hear more about what this means to me and what I’m planning to do now that I’ve unlocked this milestone.
Continue reading “I’ve Reached Flamingo FI! Now What?”Category: Slow FI
What If We All Tried To Rest More In 2024?
Hello, friends! Happy New Year! I know, I know, we’re in February now, but I had to say it since I haven’t said it to you yet 🙂
I apologize for being away from the blog for so long. I did not intend for it to be this long of a break, but I’m back from what I’m calling my holiday hibernation. I had the week off between Christmas and New Years for the first time since 2020, and I was really psyched about it. I had planned to be so super productive. To get way ahead on the blog.
But, would you guess what happened instead? My body told me it needed to rest, and I listened. I let go of the guilt of not being productive and not posting new content, and it was freeing and wonderful. It was just what I needed. And that vibe definitely spilled well into 2024…
Continue reading “What If We All Tried To Rest More In 2024?”How Do We Know What’s Important?
I hope all my U.S. readers had a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday, no matter where you were, who you were with, or what you ate 🙂 I had planned to publish this post the day after Thanksgiving, on my usual Friday posting day, but instead I decided not to rush it or to worry about it on my holiday time off. It’s funny to think that I chose what was important to me at the time over publishing a post on the very same topic!
Even amidst all that is happening in our country and around the world these days, I’m finding myself ever more grateful for my life, my family, my friends, and my community as the years churn on. Having my connection with myself and my community provides a light in the darkness. In that spirit, I bring you some musings on the theme of importance.
Continue reading “How Do We Know What’s Important?”Lean Into Your Creative Side
How are you designing your life on your way to financial independence (FI)? As many of you know, one of the main themes of this blog is living our best lives now, starting to take action now to make our lives more joyful, instead of waiting until some day in the distant future, when we hit our FI number (roughly 25x our yearly expenses).
Today on the blog, I’m honing in on one way we can help with the lifestyle design process now, one way we can increase our chances of living our best lives now. By getting creative! We can use creativity to figure out how we can start designing our lives, and living our best lives, NOW.
Continue reading “Lean Into Your Creative Side”Maintaining Your Health On The Way To Financial Independence
Well, my friends, I was going to publish this post last Friday, getting back to my regularly scheduled weekly blog post. But alas, life had other plans. After 3 years of avoiding it, Mr. Dink and I finally came down with COVID-19.
How poetic that the week I was going to publish a post about health, we both got sick. Such is life, I suppose.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, I had absolutely no energy whatsoever to work on polishing this post to have it ready to publish last week. But I’m sort of glad I didn’t, because it gives this post new life. A fresh perspective.
Life is short, and there’s nothing like lying sick in bed with absolutely nothing to do (or nothing I can do) besides watch TV and wallow, freaking out about my shallow breathing and wondering how bad it would have been if I wasn’t vaccinated, to remind you that life is short.
This post became all the more important to me.
Continue reading “Maintaining Your Health On The Way To Financial Independence”Why Flamingo FI?
As I continue down this road of blogging in the personal finance space, one of the top things I hear from readers and others I connect with is that they’ve never heard of Flamingo FI (financial independence) as an alternative FIRE strategy before. So today on the blog, I thought I’d share what exactly Flamingo FI is, why it is my chosen FIRE strategy currently, and why it may be a good option for you too.
Continue reading “Why Flamingo FI?”Can You Embrace A Slow FI Lifestyle and Still Work Full-Time?
It’s been well over a month now since I started my new job. It’s wild to think that only about 2 months ago, I was agonizing over the decision of whether to change companies and take another full-time job, when my ultimate goal is part-time work.
But as I agonized over this decision, I was thinking so much about this title question. Regular readers of my blog know how much of a fan I am of a slow FI (financial independence) lifestyle. Which is why my ultimate goal is part-time work. But can you embrace a slow FI lifestyle while still working full-time?
Today on the blog, I’m sharing why I think the answer is a resounding yes.
Continue reading “Can You Embrace A Slow FI Lifestyle and Still Work Full-Time?”Slow FI: A Win-Win Situation?
I think it’s no secret at this point that I am a HUGE fan of the concept of slow FI (financial independence). Coined by The Fioneers, slow FI describes the process of using the financial freedom gained along the path to financial independence to start building a life you don’t even need to retire from, to start living your best life now.
For some, it may seem too good to be true. But is it? Or instead, is it actually a win-win situation? Let me tell you why I believe it’s the latter!
Continue reading “Slow FI: A Win-Win Situation?”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?”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.
Continue reading “My Why For Slow FI: Health, Connection, and Contribution”