We spend a lot of time planning in this household. I seem to initiate most of it since I can’t seem to sit still for very long. I feel that I need to have direction and a focus; otherwise, I am not maximizing my time and energy toward making progress in my life. On the […]
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Numerous Tasks and Too Little Time: A Quick Update
Hi folks, as you can probably guess things have been getting a bit hectic for us around our household lately. We are entering our fifth month of remodeling projects while concurrently taking on some other big life goals. Oh, let us not forget that we are both working full time jobs. For those loyal readers, […]
Goodbye Old Buddy; Say Hello to My New Friend
Since achieving some of our major financial milestones, we are beginning to see some changes around our household. Some of these changes include allowing personal finance magazines subscriptions to lapse and re-focusing our attention away from a debt snowball app. For the past decade, our goals had been focused on financial independence and retiring early. […]
Happy New Year’s Day and a Successful New Year
We wish our readers a Happy New Year and a prosperous new year. We hope you have had some time to reflect on the year that has ended and you are excited with the promise to what the new year can bring. We hope on New Year’s Day you are not waking up from having […]
Got Goals? A Bright Future is Only Four Months Away
There are plenty of books, articles, blogs, seminars, and classes about goal setting. Each may present a unique approach as to how one should go about setting goals, creating a system to ensure success. I know that, for me, setting goals has been an important practice in my life. The nature of my personality is […]
On priorities: Our friend “Buck” stops here
A beautiful array of wildlife passes through our backyard. We’ve seen foxes, coyotes, skunks, quail and other birds, lynx, javelina and, of course, plenty of deer. A while back we had a lone deer visit us several times over a couple of days. He settled in for a few hours during each visit. I named […]