This is probably the article I have dreamt of writing the most since the beginning of the blog “Just One More Year”. In fact, I have been formulating this in my mind for years. This goes back prior to when I first thought of creating a PF blog and becoming an avid reader of ERE […]
Happiness
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 […]
Merry Christmas to our “Just One More Year” Readers!
I would like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and wonderful extended weekend. We hope you will be able to take some time away from work and the challenges of the world to reflect and relax. I know that for many in the service, military, police, and other industries you may have to work on […]
Downsizing the Amount of our Stuff
I wrote in an earlier post about an interesting experience I had with my daughters regarding all the different ways people can get or buy “stuff”. I mentioned how I had an opportunity for one of those great teachable moments with my daughters. You know, when you can talk about a particular principle using a […]
Thanksgiving and what it means to be Thankful
I am receiving emails from work and various blogs that I subscribe to describing all the things people are thankful for in their lives. It is certainly heartwarming reading these thoughts. So how do I state things differently than has already been described countless times before? What would be interesting to our readers? While I […]
Talking About Priorities with My Pal, Buck
We had a special visitor at our house today. Our readers may remember when we introduced Buck earlier this year. He and I had a lengthy conversation about priorities and concerns about shelter, food, and friendships. It has been months since we have seen him and I had wondered where he had been since our […]
The Secret to Happiness: Drink Wine
Our experience in Sedona over the last four years has been focused in a few key areas; working, hiking, and early retirement planning. Also sprinkled in for fun is visiting with family when they are in town, about 6 months of the year. We realize that it is important to make more connections with neighbors […]
A Quick Update: The world keeps moving on
Hey folks, today’s post will be a short, sweet, and quick update as to what has been going on in our world the last few weeks. I am noticing that the world keeps moving on, no matter how much we try to control or direct the course. We have experienced a bunch of travel, a […]
What is your Return on Happiness (ROH)?
Many people who are interested in personal finance topics have a love for numbers—perhaps they have an aptitude for math, or they study finance, or use numbers in their jobs. I, too, am a “numbers person,” someone who analyzes potential scenarios from a numeric perspective. However, my wife—educated as a musician—employs a very different thought […]