Motivation

After publishing, Financial Independence: Maybe You Don’t Want It Bad Enough, most of you agreed that paying back your debt is the right thing to do. The post has some tough love because it doesn’t support those who just blame the system or someone else for their problems. We should own up to our financial mistakes. It’s much […]

Financial Samurai Goals 2018 is my way of keeping the year focused and on track. My biggest disappointment in 2017 was pushing my mind and my body past their limits. At the age of 40, I no longer have the energy to do what I’ve been used to doing all my life, yet I worked

Happy 2018 Everyone! Here is my 2017 year in review. Since the year doesn’t really start until the second week of January, I’ve decided to spend more time reflecting. Hopefully you will too on a tropical island somewhere. Before 2017, the best year of my life was when I got married on a cozy beach

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays Everyone! Here are the top Financial Samurai posts of 2017. The best thing about hard work is when it’s over. Once finished, you can basically sit back and enjoy all of the rewards if you wish. And if you hustle long enough, you might positively change your life forever. In 2017 I wrote 175 posts, averaging

To get better, you must be brutally honest with yourself. Open yourself up to stinging criticism and judgement so that you may improve upon your deficiencies. One of the downsides of putting yourself out there is that you open yourself up to misinterpretation or criticism. Fear of ridicule is one of the biggest reasons why

If you want to reduce emotional stress, you need to start seeing life through a different perspective. Perfect happiness is an illusion. You would think life is a piece of cake being a stay at home and work from home dad with a stay at home spouse. But I recently went through two weeks of intense

Motivation is the key to progress. And progress is my one word definition of happiness. This post will discuss how to motivate yourself when the desire to be rich is gone. Eventually, we’ll all be rich enough or feel rich enough to stop hustling. I spend a lot of time responding to comments, so I

If you want to get luckier in life, realize that success is mostly luck. I live by the mantra, “Never fail due to a lack of effort because hard work requires no skill.” It’s a reminder to STOP making excuses when something seems too daunting to tackle. There’ve been too many instances when I didn’t start something because I

I am a super optimist. I believe there are solutions for impossible things. Whenever there is a seemingly insurmountable challenge, I like to find a way. Whenever I sprain my ankle, the first thing I think is: thank goodness I didn’t break my ankle. Whenever I lose a bidding war on a house I want,