An open letter to the FIRE community, Hello FIers everywhere – and all who’ve followed my work for years in some way or another. I'm writing to celebrate you and the 2 years we've had together. How amazing to find the FIRE (financial independence retire early) sub-culture in...
A prominent spokesperson for F.I.R.E. "confessed" a strange phenomenon in his journey to having a million dollars in his investment account. He hit his "number" and now visits it in his online account and feels ...
The holidays. Who can get through them unscathed by consumerism? Let's see if we can lower the temperature and increase the financial transformation for the #budgetblowout called varyingly Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanza and "urgent special deals today only". The post has two parts...
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Laura Oldanie, a member of the Your Money or Your Life community, wants to marry FI and the 3Ps (people planet profit as the bottom line for a sustainability business) into a 3PFI lifestyle. In this article written especially for us, Laura describes the choices...
This story happened over a decade ago, but it's lessons transformed my life and redirected how I spend my most precious resource: my time. I was playing a simulation game with a dozen other people and here's what happened. An FI Game I can't find the instructions...
Your Identity Closet: What shall you wear now that you are free? In high school all three sororities asked me to join – three different flavors of girls to giggle and gossip with. I must have joined one because my actual memory isn’t of joining. It’s...
Now that Your Money or Your Life 2018 has been launched, now that there are nearly 60K books in stores and warehouses, now that this platform is humming and the Facebook community is growing and I've mingled with hundreds of FIers at conferences and retreats,...
In the heyday of Your Money or Your Life's original best-seller status, Joe rarely made public appearances. He agreed to join me in 1993, though, for a talk to 200 people at the venerable Elliot Bay Bookstore in Pioneer Square in our hometown, Seattle. He...
Call this post: FI 2.0. Or maybe 3.0. One of the most radical and overlooked ideas in Your Money or Your Life comes in Chapter 7. The job of that Chapter is to have you realize that a “job” is not the only, best, most legitimate, most respectable...