Category: Life Story
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Changing Course
Don’t be afraid to change your mind and your direction. Regardless of how well you planned something and how much progress you’ve made, if you think something else is better for you, pursue that. I’m not afraid to change my mind. I never have been, thankfully. The one thing I don’t change my mind on…
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Let me tell you a little about me
I’ve previously shared that I’m starting to share my journey about seven years in. Even though I’m not just starting, I want to share a little more about myself so that you have some context about my posts and how I got here. Beginning Starting at the beginning, I am a second generation American. What…
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Journey to FIRE – September Update
This is where I’m at in relation to my FIRE goal. I am amazed that this is where I’m at! You’ve no idea. I was looking through old screenshots trying to see if maybe I had one of me having no investments so I could see how long ago that was. The earliest I could…
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Gratitude
Something that I think gets lost in all of the talk about personal finance is gratitude. Personally, my life is very far from where I started. When I was a child, my parents were constantly moving for work. I loved living in different places! The bad thing was that once I started school, I made…
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Mentor
As I was driving to work this morning an old mentor of mine popped into my head. She was assigned to be my official mentor because I was a new teacher and she was a master teacher who had taught for about 7 years at that point. She wasn’t much older than I was then,…
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Reckless Spending
I just spent an hour writing my post only to have it be deleted. I am very angry. I am basically only re-writing this because I said I was going to write one post each day for 365 days and I will not be a liar dammit! Ok, short story-time version: When one grows up…
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My F.I.R.E. Goal
If you’ve never heard of F.I.R.E., it stands for: Financial Independence, Retire Early. A few years ago, after I’d paid off my credit card debt and continued to read personal finance books and blogs, somewhere along the way I stumbled across this movement. It immediately appealed to me! Retiring before than 65?! Yes!!! My goal…