Lead With Your Life: Decide What You Want and Fit Your Finances Around It
In this Slow FI interview, Michelle shares how she quit her job and built multiple different streams of income. She is an excellent example of leading with your life. You can decide what you want, and then, you can fit your finances around that.
How to Create a Financial Independence Bucket List
Before pursuing financial independence, there were many things I wanted to do in my life that I didn’t believe were actually possible. After being introduced to financial independence, I’ve realized that the options available in life are so much bigger than I ever thought possible. Through the pursuit of financial freedom, I can envision my ideal life, and I can make it happen. Creating a financial independence bucket list is a tangible way to make that happen.
Actively Choose to Design Your Life
If we don’t look at lifestyle design as continuous action, anything can be a lifestyle design. Technically, working 40+ hours/week for 40+ years is a lifestyle design. But, unless you are intentionally choosing that lifestyle for yourself, you are not designing your life. If you don’t actively design your life, you are choosing the default.
Slow FI Coffee Date, Episode 2: Sabbaticals and Entrepreneurship
In this Slow FI Coffee Date, Mel (from Modest Millionaires) and I discuss her recent decision to take a sabbatical, our experience as entrepreneurs, and the importance of building community when designing your life.
Taking a Break from Work Can Give You a Whole New Perspective
In 2017, Diania took a 2-month break from work to walk that Camino de Santiago (a 500-mile trek in Spain). This entire experience transformed her life – from saving to make the trip, negotiating the time off, the trip itself, and its aftermath. Taking a break from work was the catalyst Diania needed to completely change her life.
F-You Money is More than a Number
While my experience with anxiety was very challenging, it taught me some important lessons about putting myself first. A key financial concept known as F-You Money gave me the confidence to move forward in a way that prioritized my health and happiness. I’ve also had more recent realizations about F-You money. I originally thought that the sole purpose of F-You Money was to be able to get yourself out of a bad situation. After becoming an entrepreneur, I see that it can also allow you to take advantage of an opportunity.
4 Strategies to Negotiate a Higher Starting Salary
You deserve to get paid a fair (and hopefully high) wage for the work that you do. As a former HR professional, I’ve often been on the employer side of salary negotiations. Here’s what I’ve learned about successful salary negotiation.
Best Ugly Produce Delivery Service
When we first learned about financial independence, we started to analyze our spending. One of the first things that we realized was that we spent way too much on groceries. While I was doing research into Community Support Agriculture (CSAs), I stumbled across ugly produce delivery services, and found two companies in our area to test out. Here’s what I discovered.
8 Tips to Help You Work From Home Effectively
A lot of us have been working from home for the past year due to COVID. Many people have absolutely loved working from home. Others haven’t enjoyed it quite so much. Here’s what I learned about working from home that I’ve applied to my life as a new entrepreneur.
