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What financial mistakes you should avoid during COVID-19 emergency (Guest Post)
The whole world is experiencing a difficult time which probably no one ever imagined. We are scared of going out of our homes. The kids are homeschooling, many people are working from home if feasible, the health care workers and doctors are working day and night, and people are worried about whether or not they’ll… Read more
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The Way Life Goes (Guest Post)
Howie Bick is the founder of The Analyst Handbook, a collection of 16 guides created to help current and aspiring Analysts advance their careers. Prior to founding The Analyst Handbook, Howie was a financial analyst. Here he riffs on lifestyle design and more… Life is an interesting thing to say the least. We all have different… Read more
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Ecological Economics 101: The Real Costs of Living
In the age of Covid-19, large cities have turned into giant prisons, with billions of people ‘stuck’ in their houses. The almighty economy that took ten years to recover from the last global crisis crumbled in a matter of weeks. And evident by fights over toilet paper in grocery stores, our societal fabric may be… Read more
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The Resolution 2019: Wrap-up
In 2018, I posted monthly about my spending tracking. After feeling like it had become too much the focus of my blog, I moved away from it in 2019, although I continued to track spending (along with virtually everything else quantifiable in my life as I do). But with 2019 having come to a close… Read more
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FIRE on a Rainy Day
A few weeks ago I was at home in Mexico for a late-season rain. I’ve been adding a new level and unit onto my small home in Baja California Sur. Although I expected the construction to be completed sometime in October, the finishing touches continued to drag on. This meant that with my two pre-existing… Read more
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My First Podcast – Get Paid For Your Pad
Ironically, shortly after posting my latest post on health, I started to experience some crippling back pain. This has stifled a lot of aspects of my life, including creative pursuits such as my blog. As I start to see some small signs of improvement today, I was inspired to share this here for my readers… Read more
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Health Management is Wealth Management
Wealth management is a well understood concept. But given the current health trends, it seems that the importance of health management is lost on most.
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4 Must Haves: Personal Finance Apps (Guest Post)
There’s a first time for almost everything. And that even includes guests posts on this blog! Recently Money Done Right reached out and pitched a few ideas for a guest post to Freedom 33. Because we all know how much I believe in the power of tracking (I decided I need to gain a better… Read more
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The Happiness Index
For what’s money without happiness? Or hard times without the people you love? -J. Cole, Love Yourz No, this is not a discussion of some hip new ETF that I have found. Instead, I wanted to bring to your attention some recent research that may change the way we quantify happiness, which has all sorts… Read more
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What You Say You Are and the Food of Thought
What you’re thinking about, you’re becoming. -Mohammed Ali Your perception is your reality. We move through the world with a story about ourselves in our heads that we call our identity. We tell ourselves that we’re ‘rich’ or that we’re ‘poor’, and the words we choose to use to describe our reality become real in… Read more
