This Calculator Will Tell When You Can Quit Your Job

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”

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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8 things I learned During My Blog Start-Up

Here’s what I learned running a blog through 42 blog articles this year.
1. Learned how to start up and maintain a website.
2. Developed better writing skills.
3. Learned how to create content that adds value to 80% of the blog visitors.
4. Learned how to use web-based tools to increase security on my website.
5. Gained a better understanding of Google Analytics functionality.
6. Began learning the art of SEO management.
7. Realize that most people are online to either solve a problem or be entertained. (mostly to be entertained).
8. Discovered that gratitude is much more difficult to measure than accomplishments. Continue reading “8 things I learned During My Blog Start-Up”