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Early retirees are not withdrawing from life. They’re embracing a purposeful life MORE fully than ever. Early retirees are not wild risk-takers. They are calculated risk-takers. They see the old bargain of a 9-to-5 job until they’re 70 as riskier than an early-retirement. The retirement plans of …
In your journey, people feel empowered, like they have walked out of a dark room into the daylight. There is an empowerment to having savings. My early experiences included learning how to grow food, raise animals and butcher them for my winter’s meat, build, work …
Life Design with the World in Mind It contains all my work to date on food, money, conversation, community building, sustainability. Life. This is the life part of Your Money or Your Life. The money part is actually just preparation for (or in support of) …
COULD WE BE HAPPY? Vicki Robin – October 17, 1999 And we will all be noisy We will gather in the streets talking about recipes and politics and philosophy and love We will show each other our bruises with the innocence of children. Convinced …
I don’t see financial independence as the ultimate goal. I see it as just a ticket to the greatest show on earth – the earth itself with all her beauty, complexity, critters and currently crises. The opportunity to ask the Mary Oliver questions: What are …
Thinking what policies FIRE grads might reasonably champion I’m exploring a set of 4 policies that could both benefit people as they climb the FI mountain, and set the stage for #FIforAll – a world where we all have a a personal and economic safety net …
Justine and Michael (previously Green Renaissance) – on a journey to explore our shared humanity – captured beautifully my new exploration on “coming of aging”
My thanksgiving message to a few close friends, and now to all of you. Imagine 8 billion people giving thanks. Not thankful because of Pilgrims or victory in war. Just thankful for being alive. Sunrise. The sounds of children playing. A home. Loved ones. …
Why this 1992 personal finance book still has a cult following By Helaine Olen October 4, 2022 at 8:00 a.m. EDT8 min When I told Vicki Robin I wanted to visit her at her home on Whidbey Island, in Puget Sound just north of Seattle, she …
The following piece was submitted 2 years ago to an online journal about the future. The idea of linking Universal Basic Income and National Service in more nuanced and detailed than is reflected in this article, which uses Your Money or Your Life as …