How to Write a Personal Finance Plan – Full Outline and Real-Life Examples No need to feel bad if you don’t have a plan – in fact, it wasn’t until I found myself Accidentally Retired that I created one. But now that I look back, it made no sense that I didn’t have one. In… Continue reading The Personal Financial Plan – A Must Have For Anyone Serious About Their Finances
Investments
Why I Don’t Talk About Investing Much
Updated October 5th, 2023 If you happen upon my site or even my twitter account, you’d probably notice that I don’t really talk about investing all that much. The truth is that while I am fascinated by investing, I just don’t have to think about it much. I created a financial plan, and besides periodic… Continue reading Why I Don’t Talk About Investing Much
Why I No Longer Recommend Affiliate or Niche Websites as an Investment
Many of you who have been following along with my early retirement journey know that I bought an affiliate website nearly two years ago. The entire point of the website was to bring in some additional cash flow to help me manage our cash better so that we didn’t have to draw down our investments… Continue reading Why I No Longer Recommend Affiliate or Niche Websites as an Investment
Why It’s Better To Not Think About Your Investments
Updated: June 1, 2023 Yeah, that’s right. I said it. Don’t think about your investments. Once you have created your personal financial plan, and executed it, the best thing you can do is NOT think about it. Just ignore it completely. You can’t control what you don’t control. And I hate to break it to… Continue reading Why It’s Better To Not Think About Your Investments
Betting on a player. Betting on a team. Betting on a league.
The Pitfalls of Playing the Stock Market: Why Index Funds Win Every Time Updated May 11, 2023 In late 2020, after spending significant time talking with fiduciaries and reading The Little Book of Common Sense Investing by Jack Bogle, I fired my financial advisor, and took over my investments. My mini-retirement had finally given me… Continue reading Betting on a player. Betting on a team. Betting on a league.