September always feels like a great time to double down on my yearly goals. That back-to-school feeling combined with the fact that there is still a quarter of the year to make things happen seems to give me some extra motivation to make the most of this time. This year is a little different though.… Continue reading Yearly Savings Tracker – September Update
Whenever we take time off from work I like to think that we are practicing our FI life. What is our ideal lifestyle if work becomes optional for us? What is the right balance of activities that makes everyone in the family happiest and feeling fulfilled? I know I’m not the only one doing this… Continue reading Practicing our FI Life
The more you surround yourself with inspiration, the more opportunity you find to make progress with your goals and stay accountable. Inspiration can come in many forms. Essentially it represents examples highlighting how others have accomplished goals you want to achieve or surrounding yourself with people, who, in your eyes, behave in inspiring ways. This… Continue reading Surround Yourself With Inspiration
In the uncertainty of the current times, I’ve been so grateful that we have been tracking our expenses so diligently since at least 2014. Thanks to this habit, we have a pretty good idea of a simple bare-bones budget that we could implement by reducing certain expenses that we consider as discretionary expenses should we… Continue reading A Simple Bare-Bones Budget
When the pandemic started, I initially thought that we would be like frogs in a boiling pot. Slowly getting used to this crisis and finding a new normal, not perceiving the danger of slowly getting cooked. Looking back 4 months later, I’m not sure if I was right or not. I still feel like there… Continue reading Trying to Cope through a Pandemic
