I like the magazine articles that list the top 10 this or that. I’m always a sucker to click on the link and see if my state, or my city are listed. Unfortunately, my state is on the Kiplinger’s List of worst states to retire to. Kiplinger’s article on Huffington Post Relatively high taxes for state income are a key to determiner of being … Continue reading Ten Worst States To Retire To
Happy Monday Morning …. ð Image Credit: Polyp. Continue reading Life In The Rat Race – Hedonic Treadmill
I wrote recently about our family’s plan to save my final year’s salary in a bank account and donate it to charity in the first few years of our retirement. Â Here’s a link to that post. Â It’s generated a lot of discussion, but no one I’ve talked to has any examples of anyone else who had done anything similar. Until recently … It turns out … Continue reading Working One More Year For Charity – Ben Franklin Style
I’m not sure where this parable originates from, but I have seen it a few places online … Two close boyhood friends grow up and go their separate ways. One becomes a humble monk, the other a rich and powerful minister to the king. Years later they meet. As they catch up, the minister (in his fine robes) takes pity on the thin, shabbily dressed … Continue reading The Monk & The Minister – Parable for Life
“You’ll be bored.” More than anything, that’s the response I expect from friends & family that when I retire early next year. Â The plan is that it will be just a few weeks short of my fiftieth birthday (‘FIRE by 50’). Â It’s a worry that increasingly dominates my thoughts. Â Will I think myself a clever genius for making an early exit from the workforce, or … Continue reading Pre-FIRE Escape – “Not Bored” List
I enjoy “living the good life” parables like this that help put put the concept of “Life > Money” in perspective … it’s featured in most Jimmy John’s sandwich shops … HOW MUCH IS ENOUGH? “The American investment banker was at the pier of a small coastal Mexican village when a small boat with just one fisherman docked. Inside the small boat were several large … Continue reading How Much Is Enough? – Jimmy John’s
A strange thing happened to me at church on Sunday morning. The service had just ended, and my wife was chatting with another woman about getting together for dinner next weekend. While I was waiting, one of our pastors came over and asked me how I was doing. Â I figured he was just making small talk â but he said that he had really been … Continue reading Divine Guidance?
I’ve always had this interesting thought about highly paid athletes that are financially independent and retire early from their careers: why don’t they work “one more year” and donate all of the money they earn their last season to charity? Wouldn’t that be a magnanimous gesture? Wouldn’t every fan and city they visited be excited by what the are doing? Obviously some athletes’ careers end … Continue reading Work “One More Year” – As A Gift To Charity?
I had a great day at work this past Friday. Â There wasn’t anything especially amazing about it, but it was a truly enjoyable day. Â Good conversation, meaty strategic work, and a fair amount of horsing around. Â It was the kind of day that makes me say ‘this is fun – why do I really want to retire early from all of this?’ Â What am I … Continue reading 9 Reasons It’s Difficult To Retire Early
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