15# My Monthly Financial Independence Update

The Quick Takeaways

This month savings rate: 0 %

Passive Yearly Income (5 % withdrawal with taxes): 17.000 DKK (2600 $)

% change since last month: – 2 %

So What The F#ck Happen This Month?

• Leaving Denmark in order to start my mini retirement in Asia
• Spending many $$$
• Figuring out how I’m going to write

My Mini Retirement in Asia

My second part of my mini retirement has officially started. I have been looking so much forward for this trip. But it is also the part that scares me the most.

At the moment I’m in Indonesia. I’m here as a co-skipper on the boat Orbit. The main skipper is called Mathias, and he has went to the same school as me. So we know a lot of the same sailor people.

Mathias is the bomb. And I’m taking some weight off his shoulders by doing some of the repairing on the boat. We have spent the last 7-8 days in the marina of Sorong to do some repairing. We do whatever we can in order to leave as fast as we can.

My timeline for my retirement looks like this:

• 2 months in Indonesia as a co-skipper.
• 2 months in boracay (Philippines) training Brazilian jiu-jitsu.
• 6 months as a skipper in the Philippines, Indonesia and East-Timor.

Spending Money Is Awful

Even though the only thing I’m going to pay for is the two months in the Philippines where I’m going to be on my own. I still had a lot of shopping to-do before I had to leave Denmark.

I hate shopping.

It is the worse thing I know. Walking from store to store. To buy loads of shit that I feel like I’m not going to use. On top of that, I feel the inner environmentalist in me screaming.

I don’t do budgets. So I really don’t know what I have spent my money on. But I have been spending 3-4000 $ the last month, in order to get ready to leave Denmark for 10 months and being a skipper.

Writing Without a Computer

Yes I do have have a computer with me. But it is hassle using it. It requires so much more time to charge than my phone. And I’m quite busy all day fixing the boat we are going to sail. So I’m trying to develop a new habit of writing on my phone. It does go a bit slower. But I don’t have to sit down at a desk, and figuring out where I’m going to power my nearly 10 year old MacBook.

By writing on my phone I can do it on the go. I have set my phone up so that the first screen I see when the mobile is open, is writing related apps like WordPress, google docs and mailchimp.

I hate being a slave to the mobile. Interacting too much on social media and stuff like that. And from the moment I got a phone again. I can feel how much useless time I’m spending on it. So if I instead can spend time writing on the phone. I should be able to keep this blog running. Even though I might be 100s of kilometres away from shore.

I’m excited about trying to write 95 % of this blog on my phone!

See Photos of My Trip

My friend Jacob from jiu-jitsu gave me a crash course on how to make instagram stories. So I’m getting pretty good at taking some footage, and share it on instagram.

If you want to see what I’m doing on this long trip, you can go and check me out here:

@LouiLam