I think I’ve made a money mistake. According to the personal finance blogs that I follow, the stock market has been on a bull-run since 2009. A “bullish” stock market is one where the stock market is rising. A “bearish” stock market is one where the stock market is falling. Since 2011, I’ve been busily […]
This week, I had the pleasure of reading a fantastic article about saving for financial independence and early retirement that was written by Mr. Tako of www.mrtakoescapes.com***. In this magnificent article, Mr. Tako discusses his surprise that anyone would view his choices as “hardcore” on his pursuit to financial freedom. By following his own plan, […]
“You can’t become financially independent with someone else’s money.” – Farnoosh Torabi of the So Money Podcast The frankness of this statement amazed me. While being interviewed by Jamila Souffrant at Journey to Launch, Ms. Torabi spoke of the need for women to control their own money. She posited that a woman without her own money could not truly be independent […]
How many of you have heard of coasting to financial independence once you’ve hit a pre-determined target for your investment portfolio? It’s a concept known as Coast FI. I first learned about it in a post from Military Dollar. Essentially, Coast FI means that you can stop contributing money toward your goal of financial independence once you’ve […]
Debt is a cancer to building intergenerational wealth. The phrase intergenerational wealth conjures up images of the very, very rich who are able to bestow entire empires upon their progeny. Truthfully, the concept doesn’t require anything quite that elaborate. My definition of intergenerational wealth is the ability to provide financial assistance to your offspring in […]
I’m a visual leaner so when information can be presented in a picture, then I absorb it a lot faster. That’s why I was so damned impressed when I came across the following link on one of my travels through the Internet: Cash Flow Diagrams. In all honesty, this is one of the best links I have […]
One of my life’s goals is to build a nice, solid flow of passive income without getting a second job. The way I decided to do this was by building an investment portfolio using a dividend-paying exchange traded fund (ETF). I think of the individual units in my ETF as Little Money Soldiers whose sole […]
Based on my own experience and decades of observation, I am convinced without a shadow of a doubt that priorities guide how we spend money. To paraphrase Paula Pant at www.affordanything.com, every spending decision you make is based on priorities because choosing to spend on one thing means that you’re not spending on something else. […]