If you don’t have your health, no amount of money is worth it. As someone who has been writing about early retirement and the FIRE movement since 2009, let me emphasize the health benefits of early retirement in this post. There are many benefits of early retirement. Full control of your time is often the […]
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Do you want to retire early with your spouse? If so, this post will discuss achieving the two spouse early retirement household versus only one spouse retiring early. After all, we often call one spouse retiring early as being a stay at home parent. I firmly believe it’s better for both partners to retire early
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Being frugal is a good habit to adopt if you want to build more wealth. However, it is very hard to frugal your way to early retirement. Instead, it’s much better to try and earn more income since the upside is limitless. You can only save so much! Living A Frugal Retirement Lifestyle Surprisingly, I
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Ever wonder: What does early retirement feel like? I retired early in 2012 at age 34 and want to share you all the ups and downs of not working a traditional day job any more. What’s interesting is that my feelings towards early retirement are very different from the initial couple of years. As the
In early 2020, I had an early retirement master plan of retiring at age 45 by the end of 2022. Let’s review the plan given it’s now past the target date for re-retirement. I turned 47 in mid-2024. Here’s what I wrote in early 2020 right before the pandemic began on January 6, 2020. Then
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In 2020, I failed at early retirement and I want to share why. For background, I retired in 2012 at the age of 34 after working in investment banking at Goldman Sachs and Credit Suisse for 13 years. I also helped kickstart the modern-day FIRE movement in 2009, when I started writing about achieving financial
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In a previous article, I highlighted how generating passive income allows both my wife and I to be stay at home parents for our son. Our goal for the first five years of his life is to stay retired so we can spend as much time with him as possible before he goes to kindergarten.
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The reason why I retired from corporate America at 34 was so that I could take back my time. Retirement has always been about buying time, because time is finite. Once you have kids, you will also discover that time goes by much quicker because kids change so much. When I was just 13 years
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The DIRE Movement has replaced the FIRE Movement for early retirement seekers after the economy peaked in 2018. With droves of young adults finding it difficult to live off their meager investments while freelance work opportunities dry up, the DIRE movement is only going to increase in popularity over the next decade. While the desire
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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
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