We only have one life to live... In a recent article, Amber Tree Leave discussed his doubts about FIRE. He started his blog with this catchphrase: The idea sounds great: live well below your means, invest the difference and in about 15 years we will be Financially Independent and could Retire Early. Or, we could live now, travel the world and seven seas now. Not bad either... Live now. This resonates powerfully with me right now. When we decided to leave for a 1 year road trip, I had …
I’ve Always had 2 Jobs, Now I Feel Naked
Money never comes easy… I’m writing this article on my first day as an full-time online entrepreneur. This moment of my life just happened last Monday but I couldn’t write the article until the end of the day. On Thursday, May 12th, I quit my job for a 13 month sabbatical to go on a one year road trip across North and Central America. The next Monday, it was my first day as a “free man”. I feel both excited and scared. I’ve always had two jobs The reason why I feel scared is because I’ve …
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How I Spend $6,000 Per Month
How can I spend so much? How my lifestyle has gone this far? The very first step to financial freedom is definitely to know how much you need to live. This will set the bar and help you establish goals that must be reached if you want to become financially free one day. I’ve shared my thoughts on how I intend to reach financial freedom through 4 different ways. My biggest struggle to reach this has nothing to do with how much I make but rather how much I spend. A friend and fellow blogger, …
This Simplest Investing Advice is the Best Ever for All Investors
A few weeks ago, I wrote an article about my best investing moves and the worst ones. As investors, we live various experiences and have the chance to learn from them. My fellow blogger ATL at Amber Tree Leaves commented on this article telling he that if could go back in time and start over again, he would immediately start investing with a systematic plan. The idea is to invest, even a small amount of money, on a regular basis. You could do it once a month or, even easier, invest every two …
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The Answer to a Investing in a Bubble Peak
About two weeks ago, I wrote an article about volatility. I was basically explaining that market timing was futile and investing in a high or in a low in the market has a very limited impact.This article was republished on Seeking Alpha. There were several investors over there who were happy to jump on the article to tell me that we were on a verge of a market collapse and that the stupidest move would be to invest at the moment. Their thesis is quite simple (man I should be damned to be so …
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Four Different Ways to Achieve Financial Independence
Financial independence… this concept has been discussed on so many blogs that I rarely write about it here. I’ve been working on my own crusade to reach financial independence since I entered the workforce back in 2003. I previously dedicated an entire blog to the topic, had some good fun and made some money with it. Then, I decided to concentrate on my dividend investing blog thinking investors wanted to read about…. Investing! But it seems that I was wrong. I have discovered gradually that …
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