Tag: stock market

Are You Prepared For Your Financial Failure?

Visualizing Failure – The Best Way To Prepare For Anything. Imagine This Financial Worst-Case-Scenario: You have just reached Financial Independence. Your net worth has crossed your magic number and you are finally able to cover 25x your annual expenses. You are financially independent and you now only plan to work one more year to pad… Continue reading Are You Prepared For Your Financial Failure?

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 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.