Spending is a poor proxy for enjoyment and life satisfaction. The best things in life are nearly free. Don’t worry whether you’re “underspending.”
Random Thoughts From a Month-Long Trip to Switzerland
Switzerland has made great achievement in the world as such a small country. What made it so successful and what can we learn from it?
Know Your Edge
Your success comes from leveraging your edge. We should all know what’s our edge.
Waste Money Now Or Waste Money Later
There are no wrong choices as long as they are conscious choices.
Lifestyle Design: Choose What You Know
Not having had a personal finance class in high school isn’t an excuse. It’s always a choice. We all have limited time. You choose to invest your time in what matters.
Lifestyle Design: Choose What You Do
I’ve been thinking about this for some time. This is a follow-up to the previous post Lifestyle Design: Choose Where You Live. I took this picture during my vacation to help make the point: It was taken on the famous Inca Trail to Machu Picchu in Peru. The classic Inca Trail takes four days and […]
Lifestyle Design: Choose Where You Live
Reader KD’s guest post about looking at the big financial picture really put many of my posts to shame. I post many small tips and tricks here and there but they often fall on the trees side rather than the forest. Most of them aren’t even trees, but twigs and leaves. Getting an extra $5,000 […]
Looking At the Big Financial Picture
[This is a guest post from long-time reader KD.] In this day and age of financial blogs, coupon sites, and one-click online shopping, savings are easy to find and easy to replicate. The question I end up asking myself is what difference did these savings have on my bottom line? More often than not, in […]