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A strategy defines your long-term goals and how you’re planning to achieve them. It is the big-picture objective and the overarching themes of how you’ll pursue it.Strategy and tactics are equally important, but the order...
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What’s your number? No. I do not want your phone number. I’m talking about your freedom number.
Freedom number—what is that, you ask? If you don’t know, you’ve been thinking about your finances all wrong. Let me...
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I needed a new audiobook. In the year and a half since my first daughter had been born, I’d read three or four parenting books. These covered topics like brain development and the traits that will...
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Well, BiggerPocketers, it has been almost exactly one year since I purchased the property that made me financially independent and one year since I appeared on the BiggerPockets Podcast. At that time I was working full-time for...
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Budgeting, like dieting, has very simple fundamentals. Dollars (or calories) in, minus dollars (or calories) out.
And yet.
I believe that budgeting is not a math problem, but rather a behavior problem (also like dieting). No one is...
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Many chase the allure of being labeled an “investor”—but a good amount don’t succeed because they fail to understand the basic principles surrounding wealth-building through smart investing. As with many endeavors, knowledge is power when it comes...
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If there is one thing that gets me riled up, it is bucket lists. I recently was dragged to persuaded to visit a bookstore by a friend. Right under a “Books You Should Be Reading” sign was...
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Once a month, I get the pleasure of going in to a class of high school seniors to introduce the concept of financial independence. This often leads to talks of house hacking, frugality, and personal finance.
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I was delighted—and a little surprised—to read the findings of a sweeping economic study analyzing the returns of real estate, stocks, bonds, and short-term bills over the last 145 years.
The study, a joint project between several...
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I was talking to my buddy and co-worker Craig Curelop recently. It was about 7:00 p.m., and we were having one of our not-infrequent discussions about financial freedom late after work. As usual, Craig was cooking...
