As promised last week when I reviewed my 2016 money resolutions, today I'll be sharing my 2017 financial resolutions. I'll track these throughout the year and likely give you an update sometime in July. For now, let's get to what I want to accomplish financially in 2017. Here's the list as of today: Get daughter established in college. This includes EVERYTHING -- … [Read more...]
Working the ESI Scale to Financial Independence
As you know, this site is about three easy steps toward financial independence (FI): earning, saving, and investing. In case you want more specifics see What Does ESI Money Mean? and The Essentials of Building Wealth. Separately I've been thinking about the various ways to reach financial independence. In How to Become Financially Independent I mentioned a whole host of … [Read more...]
2016 Financial Resolutions Results
At the beginning of last year I posted my 2016 financial resolutions. Today I'll review how I did. Next week I'll share my 2017 money resolutions. Before we begin, let's quickly list what the 2106 resolutions included. They were: Meet net worth goal Review/manage investments Earn extra money Complete death file Update will/estate plan Review credit … [Read more...]
My Savings Rate and Other Insights into My Financials
In my post titled How to Become Financially Independent a reader made the following comment: I’d love to see a yearly breakout [of your savings rate] sometime to see how it changed over the years. I’m guessing you were at a higher savings rate at the end in your largest earning years and as you had the mortgage paid off. I thought this sounded like an interesting proposition, … [Read more...]
My Jobs, I Get My Dream Job
Last time in this series I shared some of my career history by detailing a job where I experienced promotion, success, and failure. Today I want to continue the story by giving details on the next position I held. If you recall, we left off at a point where my career had crashed and burned a bit (not that bad really, but way down from where it had been.) The company was a … [Read more...]
What are Your Hobbies?
We're going to take a break today from talking about money. Instead we'll chat about things that money affords us that make life a bit better -- our hobbies! I got the idea from a list of hobbies of successful people. I was expecting more "sailing" and "polo" sort of answers from them so the fact that they like cartoons and novels was surprising. Who knew? Successful people … [Read more...]
Blog Update: ESI Money 1 Year Anniversary and the Business of Blogging
One year ago today I published my first post. What else would it be called other than Welcome to ESI Money? I thought I'd share an update with you on what's happened since and my plans for the future. I'll dive into the business side of blogging as I hope to make this site a decent post-retirement income stream. I thought you'd be interested in seeing if I can do it! … [Read more...]
My Jobs, Promotion, Success, and Failure
We are now six jobs into the series on my job. Here's the list so far: My Jobs, Pre-College My Jobs, College My Jobs, Graduate School My Jobs, Introduction to the Real World My Jobs, Second Job a Winner My Jobs, Working for a Maniac If you recall, in the last post there were two major players (other than me) including: Maniac -- The crazed boss I … [Read more...]
My Worst Money Mistakes
Reading ESI Money you might think I'm a financial genius who has always had everything money-related figured out. That's far from true. I do write mostly about the positive sides of what I've done because 1) much of it has been positive and 2) I think people want to try and emulate what has worked well. That said, there are obviously learnings to be learned from failures, … [Read more...]
What are Your Money Milestones?
I was having lunch with a friend the other day and the subject of my retirement came up (which it always does these days). His response to my retirement was similar to others but he asked me a unique question: "What things happened in your life that allowed you to become wealthy and retire early?" At first I was tempted to list the basics of retiring early/becoming … [Read more...]
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