Category: Life

Moving Somewhere To Retire? Don’t Kid Yourself!

The Internet is open to all but is also home to many cozy bubbles that distort reality.  It is easy to extrapolate a very specialized, rare thing to a much broader population just because you spend a lot of time within a small group who believes in that thing, talks about it a lot, plans to […]

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Seek Independence From Money Prison

What an oddly-titled article from this website, right?  Trust me, it will make sense.  Read on… Does money drive your life?  It may sound ironic hearing this from a guy who has a monetary target to achieve, firmly planted on the name of this website.  But it is true.   Truth be told, I put up that big, hairy, audacious goal (BHAG) […]

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Right Mindset for Successful Investing

You may have read several studies that successful long term investing requires the ability to invest efficiently, have enormous patience and faith in the markets to eventually deliver the goodies for your retirement. We also saw in an earlier article, that patience, especially to survive the dog years of investing, is a key requirement. How […]

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Stay Humble and Kind

The journey of life is long, complicated and is never a straight path.  Same applies to our financial journey as well, as finances mirror our lifestyle and choices.   So, we must stay humble and kind. The elegance of steadily compounding financial returns are merely that…just elegant.    It’s funny we model financial portfolio growth using […]

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What the master of history can teach you about investing

Today’s post is from Troy Bombardia, who blogs over at markethistory.org.   I am a strong believer in learning from successful people, and when it comes to investing, especially from the Oracle that I wrote about. What I like about Troy’s post is that he focuses on the importance of understanding history and the learning’s […]

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Retire in 30s via Real Estate Investing

Today, we have a guest post from my European friend Benjamin Davis, who is a living example of geographic arbitrage (as he plans to leave high-cost Germany to lower-cost Portugal).  He is the man running the show at From cents to Retirement. He recently published his first book, entitled “My strategy to retire early“. While doing his PhD, he […]

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