I enjoy the work published on No Sidebar. It is one of the few blogs I regularly follow and I have been honored to have a few of my pieces published there. It has a large reach and positive influence in the minimalism and simple living community. Recently, however, I felt I needed to provide … Continue reading Happiness in Early Retirement Isn’t Rare| Living The FIgh Life
I once spent several hundred dollars on a high quality bike rack. It held four bikes, and there were four of us. It seemed like a great investment to increase our family biking time. But pretty quickly I found it was too unwieldy to use. I only used it twice and hated it both times. … Continue reading How the Sunk Cost Fallacy Impacts What We Own and Do| Living The FIgh Life
Several prominent early retirees have shared their challenges with life-changing events to include divorces, major medical surprises, and death of a spouse. While these events have a low chance of occurring for most early retirees, the impact of these events could derail our retirement plans. Some early retirees had to return to full-time employment as their passive income no longer covered their expenses. But others had a strong enough financial picture to weather the significant cut in net ...| Living The FIgh Life
Why Mindfulness Belongs in Your Finances When people think of mindfulness, they often picture meditation, breathing exercises, or slowing down in the middle of a busy day. But mindfulness can also apply to your money. Building a mindful financial life is about paying attention to your financial choices, noticing the emotions behind them, and making ... Read more The post Building A Mindful Financial Life first appeared on Mamabee.| Mamabee
The financial independence retire early (FIRE) community is a very supportive and tight-knit one. One thing I appreciate from the diverse FIRE community is| Tawcan
Several prominent early retirees have shared their challenges with life-changing events to include divorces, major medical surprises, and death of a spouse. While these events have a low chance of occurring for most early retirees, the impact of these events could derail our retirement plans. Some early retirees had to return to full-time employment as their passive income no longer covered their expenses. But others had a strong enough financial picture to weather the significant cut in net ...| Living The FIgh Life
Since 2019, I have set goals and resolutions at the beginning of the year and provided progress updates each quarter. It has been six years since this annual| Tawcan
My wife (a public school teacher) and I (a government employee) both achieved financial independence and retired at the age of 52, or 15 years before Social Security’s full retirement age. Coming when we are still able-bodied and relatively healthy, that 15 years represents a lot of time to follow our curiosities.| Living The FIgh Life
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I started investing in mutual funds and stocks shortly after entering the workforce. Back then, I didn’t really know what I was doing, so I followed many “| Tawcan
I came across this article from The Globe and Mail the other day. The article profiled Jeremy Finney who retired five years ago at age 41. Soon 46, he is| Tawcan
These productive things to do are free, inspiring, and you can do them at home. So, turn off your tv and turn up the volume on your future.| Wealthy Woman Finance
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“Do you think dividend investing is the best investment in the world? What is the best way to invest?”| Tawcan
Thinking about inflation? Me, too. With recent increases in government tariffs on foreign goods, the specter of higher inflation has increased, and the potential impact on your expenses may be a worry. But the impacts of inflation are not always bad—or as bad as we may think. Inflation is demonized because we tend to notice higher prices for gas or groceries on a regular basis, but we tend not to notice when prices stay neutral or go down, or when our income goes up.| Living The FIgh Life
In this episode, Emily presents five suggestions for reducing financial anxiety that you could use alongside your general anxiety management strategies. These five suggestions are designed to be used by graduate students, postdocs, and PhDs who are in objectively stressful financial situations. They include choosing just one financial goal, taking a small step, creating a […]| Personal Finance for PhDs
Welcome to our latest monthly dividend income update!| Tawcan
Welcome to Part 3 and the final part of our 20-day Taiwan trip report. I hope you have enjoyed reading about our trip and seeing all the pictures so far.| Tawcan
Since my early retirement in 2020, I have noticed several misunderstandings about pursuing financial independence (FI) and retiring early that are frequently perpetuated by FI content creators and their guests. Here are six common myths regarding pursuing full FI and early retirement. While some of these might be true for some individuals or in very specific cases, they become myths when touted as general truths. It is time to debunk several:| Living The FIgh Life
Last week I shared the first three days of our Taiwan trip with a lot of pictures to give readers an idea of what our trip was about. Taiwan is very| Tawcan
As many of you know, years ago I created the word Tawcan by combining Taiwan and Canada (it should have been Taican but that’s not very original for me so I| Tawcan
Welcome to another dividend income update. Since the creation of this blog back in 2014, I have been posting monthly dividend income reports to keep ourselves| Tawcan
My wife and I are celebrating our 35th wedding anniversary this year (and 38 years of being a couple). While on a public ferry in Luxor, Egypt we quizzed each other on the many other ferry boats we had ridden together. We each remembered examples the other hadn’t. It was a fun walk down memory lane from the British Columbia ferry we rode on our honeymoon to a recent public row boat from the cities of Rabat to Salé across the Bou Regreg river in Morocco [see photo above]. | Living The FIgh Life
Financial emergencies can happen any time, any where. I’ve known this for forever—as have you, I’m guessing. But knowing didn’t necessarily mean I had saved up money in an emergency fund. Now that I’m out of debt, I’m finally taking the importance of a having an emergency fund that I actually tap in case of [...] The post Why You Need an Emergency Fund appeared first on Good Life. Better..| Good Life. Better.
Having an emergency fund is foundational to healthy finances and our pursuit of financial independence. From an unexpected car repair to the loss of a job, the primary job of an emergency fund is to help you weather unexpected financial challenges that could derail your financial progress. Depending on your situation, you may have anywhere from $1,000 upward to 6 months worth of expenses in a readily accessible account standing watch over your financial castle while you sleep a little more so...| Living The FIgh Life
Does money corrupt, or is it the love of money that causes harm? Discover the truth behind this famous phrase and how wealth shapes our lives.| Money Fit
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I frequently hear on Financial Independence and Retire Early (FIRE) podcasts and read in FIRE blogs that the RE (Retire Early) part of the FIRE acronym should be dropped. They can’t imagine not working, they say, and besides, they enjoy working.| Living The FIgh Life
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Some readers have asked about how we invest our own money and what our portfolio breakdown is like. So I thought it’s time for some explanation on how we| Tawcan
These four dividend hikes increased our forward annual dividend income by $127.96. I was very pleased to see a payout increase of more than 10% from both Visa| Tawcan
Back in 2017, I wrote a post titled “Does Work Define Who You Are?” In it, I posed the question - why do we tell people what we do for work when we first meet| Tawcan
Although we can be financially independent if we choose to, we decided to postpone FI by building up our dividend portfolio so we can one day live off| Tawcan
Both Mrs. T and I had a frugal uprising and learned to always spend less than we earned but we didn’t focus on our finances until our financial epiphany in| Tawcan
It’s a new month and that means it’s time for another monthly dividend income update.| Tawcan
As some of you may know, before having kids, I used to be a weekend warrior and spent a lot of time outdoors enjoying various activities like rock climbing,| Tawcan
Many readers will recall that Mrs. T and I are aiming to become financially independent via dividend income by 2025. The goal is to have our dividend| Tawcan
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Last year was the 5th year I set goals and resolutions at the beginning of the year and provided quarterly updates here on this blog. Out of the 13 goals and| Tawcan
