How To Convince Yourself To Invest Aggressively For A Better Tomorrow
One of the key ways to FIRE is to save and invest aggressively. You’ve forecasted your misery, therefore, you know that by the time...
Investing More Than The Gift Tax Limit Shouldn’t Be A Problem
Every year or two, the market hands you a gift wrapped in anxiety. You watch your portfolio bleed, you refresh your brokerage app more than...
A Financial Dilemma: Save Your Parents, Your Children, or Yourself
After publishing my piece on the shocking cost of eldercare, a question kept nagging at me that I couldn’t shake: when money is...
The Shocking Cost of Eldercare Most People Underestimate
At the Diamond Head pickleball courts in Honolulu, I met a man who said he had just put his 94-year-old mother in an eldercare home. Since...
Your Car Payment Is A Huge Roadblock To Financial Freedom
I must live in a bubble. Because in my circle, I don’t know anybody who has a car worth more than 1/10th of their annual gross...
FIRE Psychology During a Stock Market and Economic Downturn
As someone who’s been writing about FIRE (Financial Independence Retire Early) since 2009 and actually leaving full-time work for...
American Universities Hiring H-1B Foreign Workers Seems Off
As a parent to two young children, I am a target client for universities everywhere. So far, I have saved over $800,000 in two 529 plans to...
My Wife Took The Kids And Left Me – Thoughts Appreciated
Since 2009, I’ve been writing about all the ups and downs of my financial independence journey, the good and the bad. What I can...
How To Improve Your Home’s View With Foresight and Patience
In a previous post, I debated whether it’s better to buy a home with a bigger lot or an amazing view. One key point was that unlike...
How Panic Lost Me Money In A Non-Investment Way
We all know that panicking is one of the ways investors lose money. Panic selling during the 2008–2009 global financial crisis may have...