Finding joy on the journey to financial independence
Not once. Not twice. But three times. And maybe (quite possibly) one last time, when I finally hit financial independence, but only time can decide that fate…
It’s been 10 years since I left academia and ended up taking my first massive pay cut. So I figured, what better way to celebrate this 10-year anniversary than with a trip down pay-cut memory lane?
Continue reading “Taking A Pay Cut Was The Best Thing I Ever Did”It’s really here!
Continue reading “The Next Downshift Is Here”It’s hard to believe that it’s true, but it’s been 2 years since I nervously asked my employer if there was any chance I could go down to an 80% work schedule. When they said yes, the next chapter in my working journey began! In today’s post, I’ll be reflecting on these past 2 years, and I’ll also start to talk about what’s next for me in my work journey.
Continue reading “Two Years of Part-Time Work”These past 3 months since I shifted to an 80% work schedule have flown by. My sister-in-law recently asked me how I was feeling about it all on a trip I took to see her, my brother, and my niece. Then, I had a reader leave a comment on one of my recent posts wondering how it was going. The universe had spoken! I realized it’s about time I fill everyone in.
Continue reading “3 Months Into Part-Time Work: An Update”One topic I’ve witnessed many bloggers in the financial independence (FI) space discuss at one point or another is how financial freedom, and especially having “F-You” money, can help get you out of a bad situation.
They write about it as one of the many ways that having extra money in the bank is beneficial. Today, I’m sharing a recent personal story in which the financial freedom I’ve gained so far on my journey helped me get out of a bad situation at work.
Continue reading “Getting Out Of A Bad Situation: A Personal Case Study”Alright, friends. It’s big announcement time! Long-time readers may know that, since starting this blog, my big financial goal has been to eventually go down to part-time work. Well, it’s finally official. It’s finally time for me to rock the boat of the traditional 40-hour, 9-5 work week. I’m now officially on an 80% work schedule at my job, with Fridays off!
Read on to hear all about how I made the decision, the process of making it happen at work, and what I’m thinking about the decision now.
Continue reading “It’s Time To Rock The Boat”Hello, friends! I’m so sorry I’ve been away for so long. I have missed writing, and hearing from you, so much. But I’m here today to fill you in on what I’ve been up to in the month of April and to (hopefully) get back to posting a bit more regularly.
Continue reading “Experiment in Progress Alert!”For the longest time, change scared the crap out of me. Don’t get me wrong, I’m still a work in progress. I still have to actively talk myself down sometimes from freaking out when change is looming or imminent. But over time, I’ve gotten better at accepting change. In fact, I’ve even found embracing change to be quite life altering. Today on the blog, I’m diving into why I believe we could all benefit from getting more comfortable with change.
Continue reading “How Comfortable Are You With Change?”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”This week marked 3 months at my new job! I’d love to say that the time has flown, but it hasn’t really…
Today I’m sharing how things have been going, and what I’m learning about my financial independence (FI) journey along the way.
Continue reading “3 Months Into My New Job: An Update”
