I have a dream … Partly stolen from a brave man. (AKA Martin Luther King). He had a dream, and so do I. I really don’t believe that way we live our lives today is the best way for our happiness and well-being. We have never been more stressed than we are today.* So why … Continue reading “I Have a Dream!”
Category: Simple Living
Budgets. Don’t do them.
Still to this day I don’t understand budgets. I have hated them back when I was young an idiot with my finances. But I still don’t like budgets. I think they are boring, and a waste of time. “But Loui? How can you save money if you don’t do budgets?” There is a law called … Continue reading “Budgets. Don’t do them.”
So You Think Your Workday is 8 Hours?
We think our full-time work is an 8 hour workday, which is a lie. A workday for normal person would go something like this: Sleep: 8 Hours Work: 8 Hours Free time: 8 Hours Total: 24 Hours While that is true on paper. It is far from how we really spend our precious time. To … Continue reading “So You Think Your Workday is 8 Hours?”
FIVE FIRE FAQs
There has been a lot of focus on the FIRE community from the media lately. And I get a ton of questions from people who have never heard about financial independence before. So I thought a FAQ article was a good thing to post. Why do you strive for FIRE? (Financial Independence, Retire Early) I … Continue reading “FIVE FIRE FAQs”
How Imperfection Can Change Our Life For the Better
For many years I saw myself as a perfectionist. I wanted to do stuff better than the average joe. So I did my very best to do so. While this can be good to some extend. It can one of the biggest procrastination issues. We all the know the feeling of how we would like … Continue reading “How Imperfection Can Change Our Life For the Better”
Comfort Is for Wimps
How many things have we purchased, done or said because we thought it was a comfortable thing to do? I think that comfort is one of the biggest killers to a life we really have a deep desire to have. What we need to do is know what is a necessity and what is a … Continue reading “Comfort Is for Wimps”
The Power of Gratitude, and Small Things
I have been practicing an elite athlete routine for almost a decade now. The most important takeaway I have from that decade is that everything is made through consistency. Consistency trumps everything. Not one single thing is more powerful than consistency. I have always been a really impatient guy (And I still am to some … Continue reading “The Power of Gratitude, and Small Things”
How Much Money Is Enough? Fuck the 4 % rule.
I often read blog posts on how people are retiring with 1.000.000 USD and then live off 40.000 USD/Year. Put it another way. They stick to the 4 % rule. There has been made a study called “The Trinity Study”. Which is often referred to in the FIRE community. They took a close look on … Continue reading “How Much Money Is Enough? Fuck the 4 % rule.”
The Power of Spending Less
In a very long period of my life I thought that in order to become rich you need to earn a lot of money. When I started to study have the financial independent I found that this wasn’t the whole truth. The most important part to become financial independent is to spend less. If we … Continue reading “The Power of Spending Less”
How To Spend Less, and Still Be Happy
Buying stuff if often something that we find convenient. But there is a difference between really wanting a thing, to really need it. becoming financially independent is more about how little you can live on rather than how much you make. So if you can spend as little as 1000 $/month, you can become financial … Continue reading “How To Spend Less, and Still Be Happy”