Astronauts have been often heard saying that seeing our little blue planet from space was a life changing moment for them. I can only imagine that this incredible visual perception has the power to transmit a sudden deep down realisation: we are all only alive for a snapshot of a moment, brothers and sisters in …
Tag: Financial Independence
How to Move Out of The Way of Happiness
Or at least how I did... Ah, happiness. That evasive mysterious element. Often in pretty high demand amongst us humans. Not many after all will easily refuse it if offered. Whatever it may be for each of us. Presenting itself in various ways over the course of our lives... I most recently had a life …
FIRE in the hole!
To say that the past months have been profoundly transformational and life changing would be a gross understatement. I'll tell ya, it’s one thing becoming FI. A whole other story to actually FIRE! And boy, I have to confess that I had no idea how scary and exciting it gets. Nor how busy it is …
Confessions of a Hedonist OR How I became Financially Independent Slowly & Against ALL Odds.
Dear Goddess of Frugality in FIRE heaven. Please forgive me for I have sinned. Please spare my mortal soul Goddess from eternally burning in consumerist hell for I didn’t always keep the faith. I haven’t always lived frugally Goddess. I confess that I’ve committed every possible crime against the holy disciplines of penny pinching. In …
The Philosophy of Brewing Financial Freedom / The Beer Diaries Vol 1.
Photo: Chris Cohen Beer. The final frontier. These are the voyages of the starBeer home boutique Sabbatilife Enterprise. Its mission: to explore strange new beers. To seek out new all grain recipes and brew some seriously good Lager. To boldly brew great IPA and Stout and maybe even nettle Beer but most of all, to make the …
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Future me meets past me in a bar OR how I came to discover F-you money / Conversations with my younger self about financial freedom.
Image by Mobilos / Wikicommons FM: Here, sit down. I poured you this glass of ice-water. PM: What? Who the hell are you and where in God’s name did you suddenly appear from?? FM: I’m me. Which is to say you. Future you. You can call me FM. That’s future me. And you are past …
Hippy dad, Upside Down dad, the new normal, and what has bad ass Al Capone to do with any of this anyway / Reflections from the bunker.
Jogging in the park yesterday evening, just outside my home, and whilst carefully social distancing of course by dodging other joggers, dogwalkers and whole families on an evening walk, it became crystal clear to me that a new normal has settled in. Life in lockdown clearly has its phases. The infamous “Storm the toilet paper …
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