Celebrating 5 Years of Early Retirement
Today, I celebrate my 5-year anniversary of leaving my CEO gig to retire early!!!| Accidentally Retired
Today, I celebrate my 5-year anniversary of leaving my CEO gig to retire early!!!| Accidentally Retired
Your motivation doesn’t matter. But your daily habits do. Here are 3 things you can do to push past the want stage, and make things happen.| Accidentally Retired
Multitasking doesn't work. It never has. It never will! But there are ways to work on two projects at once. Here is how I do it...| Accidentally Retired
What was the difference? Is it skill? Is it networking? Luck? The difference is pretty simple - one person figured out how to play the game and the other didn't. Here are 34 lessons from my 18-year career rise from intern to CEO:| Accidentally Retired
There is a new tool at our disposal that will help you to achieve time freedom and financial independence faster. It's called ChatGPT. Embrace it or be left behind!| Accidentally Retired
AR is my journey to becoming a better father, husband, and investor I am a 40-year-old former CEO who Accidentally Retired at 36. And to conquer the ultimate question of how to live a great life Accidentally Retired is my exploration of Financial Independence, Early Retirement, Enjoying Life, and more. Subscribe by Email AS SEEN ON Recent Blog| Accidentally Retired
After a long, refreshing four-week vacation, I am back in action! I did my best to fully unplug from all my hobbies, side hustles, and worries. And honestly, I just feel incredibly lucky to even be in a position to take a four-week vacation. It got me thinking about luck....How did I get so lucky?| Accidentally Retired
Earn, Save and Automate. Ignore and repeat...| Accidentally Retired
Get the Time Tracking Spreadsheet and learn how to conquer your time!| Accidentally Retired
A simple and easy method to track happiness. With real results!| Accidentally Retired
About AR I am a 40-year-old former CEO of a bootstrapped startup who Accidentally Retired at the age of 36. My business partners and I built a business over 10 years that eventually had 50+ full-time employees and generated over $15M a year in Revenue. We were kicking ass, and I was making some good| Accidentally Retired
Seriously....are they? Sometimes I do wonder... Especially when I see the family down the street pack up their RV to head out for a long weekend. Seeing that always makes me a bit jealous, even though I know that owning an RV would be a headache — not to mention that my family just went| Accidentally Retired
My Failure Resume: The goal was to take all of the learnings from my failures, so that I could both move forward by leaving the mistakes in the past, AND learn from my mistakes at the same time.| Accidentally Retired
Learn how to track, graph, and improve your happiness. Plus a March happiness update!| Accidentally Retired
Hand selected books to help explore Financial Independence, Early Retirement, growing a business and enjoying life.| Accidentally Retired
When you finally reach the top of the peak - no matter how big or small - it's a moment that can't be beat.| Accidentally Retired
You never, EVER, need to start from scratch! And this becomes truer by the day. AI will soon be able to do many of the steps for us saving time and hassle. But you still need to take that first step: YOU MUST START.| Accidentally Retired
When I retired early, a large part of it was to move away from the stress that running a business, managing employees, and last-minute travel, ALL while trying to be there for my growing family. And it was in that mini-retirement that I realized I was so burnt out that I could barely even look| Accidentally Retired
A few weeks ago, my Google account gave me the good old "Your Gmail storage is 96% full" warning. I had been toeing the line at 95% for the last year or so, but it finally crept over, and it was time to do some spring cleaning. Thankfully, Google has a good storage cleanup tool,| Accidentally Retired
When I found myself accidentally retired and no longer working, it was really, really strange to not have to be tied to my email. Running a big business with 50+ employees and even more co-workers, vendors and clients lends itself to a lot of email. We are talking about hundreds a day. In fact, I| Accidentally Retired
How to work 40 hours or less as a CEO; take all the vacation you want and still be productive.| Accidentally Retired
For the past year, I've had some form of AI chatbot open almost anytime I'm working on the computer. Whether it's ChatGPT, Gemini, or Claude, I've been rotating through them to help with everything from writing and coding to simulating Japanese conversations and, surprisingly, financial planning. Yep, even, financial planning. Just two years ago, AI| Accidentally Retired
FREE download of the Happiness Spreadsheet inspired by Jim Collins| Accidentally Retired
How to use "Hell Yeah! or no." to make better decisions in your life.| Accidentally Retired
Most of my writing starts with a simple idea—an idea swirling around in my brain that wants to be put down on paper. I had an idea for an article - but when I did a Google search on the potential title I found that there were already many, MANY, similar articles on the same| Accidentally Retired
Book Review, Highlights, and Quotes from Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari| Accidentally Retired
Book Review, Summary, Highlights, and Quotes from The Courage To Be Disliked by Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga Man oh man. I really wanted to like this book, but I struggled with the dialogue format and how the content was presented. It’s possible that a lot was lost in translation (as it was originally published in… Continue reading The Courage to Be Disliked Summary & Review The post The Courage to Be Disliked Summary & Review first appeared on Accidentally Retired.| Accidentally Retired
Book Review, Summary, Highlights, and Quotes from *A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson| Accidentally Retired
Waking up lately is getting harder and harder. And it’s not that I am sleeping any worse than before…in fact sometimes I am sleeping better, but I am just so, so, so very tired. As any parent of two elementary-age children will tell you, parenting is NEVER-ENDING exhaustion. From the neediness to the attention-craving whining,… Continue reading You’re Only Fooling Yourself The post You’re Only Fooling Yourself first appeared on Accidentally Retired.| Accidentally Retired
I've been struggling to write lately. Heck, I've been struggling with the motivation to work on much of anything. At first, I couldn't put my finger on it. I mean, by all accounts, I AM living the dream: My kids are doing great. My wife is awesome. I work only a few hours a day| Accidentally Retired
Well, another year is in the bag and another year of blogging concludes! That makes it now 4 years since I started this little venture I call Accidentally Retired. And as always I am shocked by how fast time flies. I don't think I'll ever get over it. It was nearly 5 years ago that| Accidentally Retired
After a little bit of a rough stretch last month, my family and I wanted to go on a little day trip. So we headed out of town and had a really nice day. We stopped at a Costco for gas, and just as we were about 10 minutes into our drive home, we heard| Accidentally Retired
I love to hike, bike, ruck, and work out outdoors. But I live in the desert, so as soon as summer heat hits, it makes it near impossible to do that without getting up at the crack ass of dawn. Yet, I also dearly value my sleep, and would rather not sacrifice one part of| Accidentally Retired
Back in August, I decided I would take some time off from social media. Since I don’t use social for personal use anymore, it was mainly just taking some time off the AR X/Twitter account to take a breather. Even though I built the AR account up to nearly 20K followers and helped to drive… Continue reading My Social Media Sabbatical The post My Social Media Sabbatical first appeared on Accidentally Retired.| Accidentally Retired
Patience and time. That is all humans have ever needed. The problem is that both of those are the most elusive things to most of us mortals. We tinker when we shouldn't tinker. We get bored and we sell off one investment and trade it for another. We have a few pounds that we all| Accidentally Retired
We live in Arizona… So when it starts to get hot, it gets hot quickly. And sometimes by March, you’re sweating it out in 84-degree heat, questioning why you live here. But then you settle into the actual summer where Phoenix just managed to set a new record for over 113 straight days over 100… Continue reading The Hidden Trap in Your Mind The post The Hidden Trap in Your Mind first appeared on Accidentally Retired.| Accidentally Retired
Today, I celebrate my 4-year anniversary of leaving my CEO gig to retire early!!! Well, not quite “today” – I’m a few months behind, but I figure it’s better late than never! So today, we celebrate. WOOT WOOT. And we’ll look back through the year to review where things are going well and where things… Continue reading Celebrating 4 Years of Early Retirement The post Celebrating 4 Years of Early Retirement first appeared on Accidentally Retired.| Accidentally Retired
Are you a sports fan? Have you ever watched a game where seemingly out of nowhere the losing team that had absolutely nothing going for it in the first half of the game, somehow siezes all the momentum and goes on to have a powerful and unstoppable comeback? Isn’t that wild how it happens? A… Continue reading Momentum The post Momentum first appeared on Accidentally Retired.| Accidentally Retired
So I went ahead and had a mid-life crisis! Well, maybe not a crisis, but turning 40 really was a mind f*ck. It isn't JUST turning 40 that messes with you...it is everything leading up to turning 40 that seems like a moment of no return. And I know...I know that 40 is still young.| Accidentally Retired
Wow! It has been way too long since I last wrote! It was just TOO easy to stop. It's always too easy to stop. In fact, I haven't actually written that much this year. Most of my writing this year has been updating older content and sending it out to new subscribers. But then I| Accidentally Retired
All business should be able to sustain one person leaving for vacation - even the owner and even the CEO.| Accidentally Retired
Using mantras and goals to keep you on track with what really matters.| Accidentally Retired
How to plan, save for, and structure a mini-retirement| Accidentally Retired
Wealth takes time. Creativity takes effort. Productivity takes a system.| Accidentally Retired
Sometimes the worst does happen and our best way to prepare for it, is to visualize it!| Accidentally Retired
It doesn't matter what your career is. You don't have to be a doctor, lawyer, or investment banker to make millions.| Accidentally Retired
How to overcome decision fatigue - 10 simple and executable things that YOU can do to reduce your decision fatigue!| Accidentally Retired
Progress is made by showing up each and every day with the same energy as the day before.| Accidentally Retired
When you find the things that you enjoy, there is no reason to not figure out how to work it into your budget.| Accidentally Retired
I can no longer in good conscience recommend investing, buying, or even owning an affiliate/niche website.| Accidentally Retired
I've discovered the secret to life! It almost seems too easy. Too laughably easy. It's so simple, that it is NOT simple. YET, I've found time and again, its core truth to a good life: CONSISTENCY.| Accidentally Retired
Toxic beliefs are all around us. In fact, most are baked into our culture. Right or wrong we are raised and programmed to believe certain things. It is our job as adults to BREAK FREE of them!| Accidentally Retired
