Prodigious savers of the world, unite! From the post, “How To Retire Early And Never Have To Work Again“, I mention I’ve saved roughly 15-18 years worth of living expenses after saving 55-75% of my after tax income every year for the past 13 years. If you do the math and follow the chart in […]
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Losing someone else’s money is far worse than losing your own money. If you lose someone else’s money, you will have this tremendous psychological burden that will be hard to shake. For a brief moment in time, I wanted to be a money manager. The idea of managing other people’s money was alluring. After all,
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About five years ago, I played league tennis for a private club. The league included three other private clubs and four public teams who played out of the various parks. I put the word “private” in quotations because anybody can join. If you are under 30, your $500 initiation fee is waved. Meanwhile, you didn’t
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Just like that, 30 days have gone by and my sabbatical is over. I truly enjoyed my time off and have learned a number of things I’d like to share with those who are thinking of taking a sabbatical or are just curious in general. I haven’t taken more than two consecutive weeks off since
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On the way home from dropping my friend off at the airport, I took a 10 minute detour to Lucky Chances Casino. Lucky Chances Casino is located in the foggy city of Colma in South San Francisco. If you love to play poker, blackjack, and paigow, this place is for you. I go about once
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If you want to know what’s wrong with people’s personal finances, just observe those who are willing to borrow money in order to borrow more money! One example is using a credit card you can’t pay off in full each month, for a downpayment on a car. Since the limit for credit card use
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At 6′ 4″, Robert Mailer Anderson gets to look down at the service box before launching his rockets. Unsure what to do, I stand a couple feet back from the baseline and await my fate. As the tennis ball blasts towards me, I close my eyes and just swing, baby swing. By the time I
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I originally wrote this post on June 1, 2012, the month I stopped receiving a paycheck after I retired early from a 13-year career in finance. I’m revisiting this post over 13 years later. Stock market armageddon seems to happen every 5-10 years. 2018-2020 were extremely volatile years. Who would have thought the stock market
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There is always a privilege of giving back once you’ve established yourself or feel like you have enough wealth to comfortably survive. If there’s one thing the Yakezie Network stands for, it’s hopefully the culture of giving back to the community. To be able to give back is a privilege that shouldn’t be taken lightly.
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Investing in the stock market is one of the key ways to grow your wealth. If you save money but only keep it in cash for your whole life, you’re not going to be able to beat inflation. Sure there is risk involved when investing in the stock market. But there’s a wide range of
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