Morning routines are for losers (except for my one) – how normal people can create a morning routine that works for them
All the cool kids have a morning routine right? It seems like the advice from CEOs, celebrities,athletes – in fact everyone who is (or wants to be) successful – including the girls and boys of the FIRE world – is to have a morning routine. Until the start of the year I didn’t get morning…
The only stages of Financial Independence post you’ll need ever (except for all the other ones)
So this is the last in my initial triptych of posts about my finances (with a little diversion via the shadow of the valley of death). I’m warning you now it is an absolute beast. So grab a drink and found yourself somewhere comfortable to sit. Money isn’t the focus of what I’m looking for,…
For tomorrow we shall die! (But alas we never do)
I’m old enough to remember when the Poems on the Underground first started. They were little pockets of surprise interspersed between adverts for cold remedies and time shares (yeah they were a big thing back in the day). They were short poems, or snippets of poems,designed to make you smile, or think, or just distract…
My incredibly fluffy financial goals and why I want to buy time
In my last post I put out my reasons for not tracking finances and the rules I follow instead. As I said at the end of that I realised that I should explain what effect that was having. I’m nothing if not a man of my word [Ed: “So you’re nothing then”. Caveman: “Rude. Anyway…
Why I don’t track either my income or expenses on the road to FIRE – and the 7 ½ lazy rules I (sorta) follow instead
I’m a few posts in and I haven’t actually talked about money yet. Given that I was inspired to start this blog due to the FIRE and personal finance communities that feels like something of an omission. So I feel like I’ve got to stand tall and get on with it or otherwise I’m going…
Life moves pretty fast – take a breath
“I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it” I’m pretty sure that quoting Ferris Bueller dates me. But I love that film (or more precisely I loved that film as I haven’t seen it for…
Why we are trapped in The Cave and how you can get out
Everyone loves caves right? Right? OK, maybe not everyone, but when they look like the one below then I think you’ll agree that they look rather pretty. No? Suit yourself. Anyhoo, what I think we can all agree on is that we don’t want to be trapped in them (and as an aside I loved…
Searching for happiness
This is the middle of my story. For you it’s the first time you’ve come across it. For me it’s the life I’ve lived since before my first memories. It’s the story of my search for happiness. Frankly, having written that I’m rather embarrassed at how that looks. It’s the sort of thing an idiot…
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