Category: F.I. Mindset
Financial Independence 104: What is Financial Independence?
It has been 15 months since I last updated the Financial Independence 101 series (101, 102, 103), and wow, has a lot happened over this period. For ordinary people, 15 months doesn’t seem like much time. For those seeking financial independence, 15 months is a lifetime. Why the disparity? Financial Independence seekers leverage every minute…
Happiness Isn’t Free 2: Pursue Money for Freedom Not Happiness
Can money make you happy? This is the age-old question that almost everyone has to contemplate. If you got a million dollars tomorrow, would you be happy? Sure, you would be happy at the moment, but would that “happiness” last for the next 10, 20, 30 years? For some, it would, but the thrill of…
Become Insanely Productive During the Magic Hours 2
Do you want another income stream to help combat the effects of inflation? Don’t we all? However, everything in life comes with a value proposition. You can work on your income stream during your family time—meaning it could cause some conflict within the home environment. Or you could build an income stream on the precious…
The Biggest Book on Passive Income Ever 2!
The Biggest Book Ever of Passive Income 2 is even bigger than the original. This book includes 319 Chapters and over 1500 pages. If you ever thought you needed passive income, this is where to start your journey. I divide passive income into six distinct categories. Each one has a massive amount of depth and…
Can You Achieve Work-Life Balance 3
Working hard every day while maintaining an engaging home life is the most challenging situation on the planet. All day, we attempt to keep our souls alive while at work—fighting against the depression surrounding us. When we get home, we must spring to life and leave all those bad vibes at the door. Some of…
Sleep Easy: Make Money 24 Hours a Day
There is genuinely only one way to get rich—making money while you sleep. Let’s be honest, the true reason we want to become wealthy is to sleep easy at night. I don’t like the feeling of owing people money. Maybe you love having credit cards, student loans, and car payments, but I loathe these things.…
Grace and Passive Income
We should be thankful for everything we have in life. We tend to take things for granted more often than not. With the rise of social media, we also covet what others have, sometimes forgetting how good we have it. However, that stops today. We need to have and show GRACE for all we have.…
From Zero to Zeros
When you are broke, it’s hard not to feel like a loser. It seems that everyone else in the world has it figured out except you. This especially applies to those who choose to get married early in life. My wife and I married when I was 25, and she was 22. Today is our…
The Magic of Living Below Your Means
The American mindset is to work harder and longer to have nicer things. It sounds good in theory, but in actuality, it never pans out this way. The first step to becoming rich is learning to live poor. By “poor,” I mean to be happy with having less. You’ll be surprised by how much stuff…
A High-Value Person: Passively Earns $100,000 Annually
There have been many talks recently about High-Value Men and High-Value Women. The typical conversation states that a high-value person earns $100,000/year from their jobs. For context, the term high value doesn’t factor in morals and ethics, just income. The numbers for high-value people seem to be around 10% of males and 3% of women…
Decrease Possessions. Increase Wealth.
Why do we need so much stuff? We almost go to work entirely to buy new things or collect different experiences. How much money do we actually need to survive? What is the bare minimum amount that we need for expenses? I never thought of myself as a materialistic person. However, I just finished reading…
5 Takeaways from “The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up”
“The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up” by Marie Kondo is more than a book about cleaning your home. Cleaning and organizing one’s stuff is life-changing and soul-cleansing—if you do it correctly, of course. She has a few recommendations to complete a successful cleaning. First, you must discard. Second, you begin the process of tidying. To…
She Only Wants You for Your Money… And Why Shouldn’t She?
This article may be a tough pill to swallow for many men—but women are looking for the top providers. Yes, they love men that are handsome, tall, and charming. However, at the end of the day, they need someone who can take care of them and the kids. Gents, life has always functioned this way.…
5 Takeaways from “Free Agent Lifestyle”
“Free Agent Lifestyle” by Coach Greg Adams is about the single male lifestyle. I’ll be frank, Coach does not believe marriage benefits men. He does bring up strong points as to his beliefs. Coach is one of my favorite YouTubers. I have been married for 16 years and dearly love my wife. However, I met…
5 Takeaways from “Baby Steps Millionaires”
“Baby Steps Millionaires” by Dave Ramsey looks at folks who became millionaires by following Dave Ramsey’s Baby Steps. It is genuinely intriguing to see the power of avoiding consumer debt and living below ones’ means. I believe that everyone who follows the baby steps can become millionaires. However, I am more of a Robert Kiyosaki…
The Passive Income Hero 2
Your family needs you to be great! Someone has to save them from the evil villains of the world. The villains of today look much different than those in the movies. The villains today steal your time and your money. They make you indentured slaves where you spend your life working at mindless jobs for…
5 Takeaways from “Know Yourself, Know Your Money”
“Know Yourself, Know Your Money” by Rachel Cruze is a deep dive into the heart of your money. It is impossible to become debt-free and build an investment portfolio if you don’t know your limiting beliefs about money. Rachel Cruze is Dave Ramsey’s daughter, by the way. She explains how it was growing up after…
The In-Debt-ured Servant
I started working when I was 15 years old, back in 1996. I was a janitor for an office between freshman and sophomore year for that summer. I then worked for McDonald’s until I left for Marine Corps boot camp in 1999. Thus, I have been in the workforce for 25 years, with the Marines…
5 Takeaways from “The Psychology of Money”
“The Psychology of Money” by Morgan Housel is a mandatory read for anyone entering the stock market or the larger world of investing. So much of how we perceive our investing life comes from our mindset. The book gives us reasonable parameters to frame our investing goals and successes. The basic rule is to invest…
Are Fitness & Finance Correlated?
Is there a direct correlation between being physically fit and being wealthy? How are these things similar, and how do they differ? Let’s explore so we can better understand how to obtain both of these critical metrics. I am a US Marine, so being physically fit is part of my programming. I wake up every…
