Ever since last year, when we cut three years off our time until early retirement, we’ve been searching for other ways to cut the remaining time at work. Our first idea to make the remaining time left working more tolerable was to conceive the idea of the early retirement carrot…

We all know that some areas cost more than others. Exactly why property is higher in one area compared to another varies drastically. It might be due to the proximity to a city centre or beaches. …

Life is what you make of it. You can do good; you can do bad, or even outright evil. You can put yourself first, or you can dedicate yourself towards helping others. And there are naturally shades of gray throughout life. …

I recently watched a YouTube video of somebody who creates camping and canoeing content. Something that he said struck a real chord with me. After canoeing around a lake, he went on a long, grueling hike up a mountain. Eventually he made it to the top of that big mountain…

A while ago blogger Retirement Investing Today (RIT) commented on one of our blogs and said that the journey of achieving financial independence/early retirement (FIRE) is addictive. At the time I’d been writing up an article on “ Is early retirement really for you? “ With that front of mind…

I’ve seen a lot of talk about imposter syndrome lately. For those of you who don’t know, this is when you’re in some sort of position of respect or authority (paid or unpaid), but you feel like a phony. Basically, it’s when you don’t think like you’re worth the money…

We had another question come in from our latest Reader Q&A that was worthy of further discussion. It was also something that was very briefly touched on in last week’s post on what we’ll do with our money after we die. We’re somewhat open to the idea of selling at…

Death is something most people actively avoid thinking about, but it’s been an important part of our early retirement planning. Admittedly, most of the attention has actually been towards avoiding death. Our early retirement budget has hearty allocations towards medical expenses and health insurance, as well as keeping healthy through…

My wife Ellie has complained about winter before. So yeah, we’re not fans of the cold (Ellie especially). But in our part of the world, the period of May-September is just awful. Not only is it the cold. (Honestly, in Brisbane the cold isn’t that bad. I mean, it’s all…