If you’ve been surfing around my blog, you’ve come across the expense tracking sheet and the FIRE Calculator. (Financial Independence Retire Early). I’ve recently come across another fabulous calculator that will run models to provide you a line of sight to when you are going to hit a financial goal. Here’s how easy and painless it is. All you have to do is enter the following inputs: (You’ll need a Google Account, to access the workbook). Continue reading “This Calculator Will Tell When You Can Quit Your Job”
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What I Retired From
I have been purposefully planning for “retirement” for twenty years after I read the book ” Your Money Or Your Life”, which I have referenced many times throughout this two-year-old blog. That book started me down the road of understanding personal finance as it pertains to my little world of managing my spending and savings rates. For me, it was all about squirreling away financial resources to have enough FU Money and eventually being able to walk away from horrible bosses at will.
There are many definitions of Retirement, and for me, it has changed several times throughout my career. To this day, I still don’t have a simple definition of what my “traditional” retirement will look like.
I do know the difference between the choices of retiring at a certain age and retiring when savings and investments can stand on their own to cover a healthy and fulfilling lifestyle.
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Personal Finance Explained In Five Words
Personal Finance has different meanings to each reader and to some, the term is complicated and overwhelming. If you don’t read any further into this particular blog you can easily step off the page with this Plan and go about your other web surfing activities:
“Spend Less Than You Earn”
