Summary: This post tells how Samaritan Ministries' health sharing ministry has performed for us as early retirement health insurance. To catch everyone up on this series, in part one I talked about the health insurance options we considered as part of early retirement. In part two I discussed why we selected Samaritan Ministries for our health insurance. In this last … [Read more...]
Picking the Right Early Retirement Health Insurance: Selecting a Winner
Summary: This post tells which health insurance option we selected for early retirement and why. In part one of this series I listed the various health insurance options we considered to cover us during early retirement. In this part I'll tell you which one we selected and why. And there's a suspenseful ending, so be sure to read all the way through. ;) Early … [Read more...]
Picking the Right Early Retirement Health Insurance: Reviewing the Options
Summary: This post gives thoughts and suggestions on how to pick the right early retirement health insurance. Religion and politics. Two things you're not supposed to discuss in public. On this blog I try to avoid these like the plague because, in the end, I don't think anyone cares what I think on either topic. But I'm going to have to wade into both to talk about … [Read more...]
Success Hurts
No pain, no gain. I've joked several times with my trainer about the warnings on the workout equipment. On every weight set, treadmill, elliptical, etc. there's a warning about how the piece can hurt you. Ha! I thought they were supposed to help. Anyway, the joke is always around this particular warning that is a common one on the machines: "Stop exercising if you … [Read more...]
Health and Wealth
I've posted several times about the relationship between being healthy and being wealthy. We've discussed the financial benefits of overall good health, being the right weight, not smoking, and lowering stress/sleeping well. I've also shared my physical fitness results since starting with a trainer just over a year ago. So as many people are making health-related … [Read more...]
Improving Your Finances by Lowering Stress and Increasing Sleep
Summary: Managing stress and improving sleep can help you prosper financially as well as physically. So far in our series about physical fitness and financial fitness we've covered several topics including: Being Healthy Can Grow Your Net Worth Lose Weight and Gain Money Save $1 Million by Not Smoking And I've shared how I'm working on my fitness efforts to … [Read more...]
Save $1 Million by Not Smoking
Summary: Between the cost of cigarettes and health-care-related costs, smoking can cost you over $1 million over the course of a lifetime. Today we're continuing our series on how being healthy can grow your net worth. So far we've talked about how working out can grow your income and how you can save money by being the right weight. Today we're going to cover how you … [Read more...]
Lose Weight and Gain Money
This is the next post in my series on simultaneously getting in shape and improving your finances. For those of you who haven't been following along, you can catch up by reading Physical Fitness and Financial Fitness and Being Healthy Can Grow Your Net Worth. Today we're going to talk about a Money Magazine article that says you can save a boatload of money by slimming … [Read more...]
Update on My Fitness Efforts
It's been a few months since I wrote Physical Fitness and Financial Fitness. In the meantime I posted again on the link between health and wealth (see Being Healthy Can Grow Your Net Worth) and there are additional posts coming on this subject. Before we get to those I thought I'd give you an update on how my fitness plan is going. I'll assume you've read the first post … [Read more...]
Being Healthy Can Grow Your Net Worth
Shortly after I posted Physical Fitness and Financial Fitness I ran into a Money Magazine article titled "Get Healthy, Get Wealthy." This was the exact point I made in my post -- except with stats to back up what they said! :) The Money article was several pages long, so I'll post on it now and again to be sure we cover all the main points. The general overview is that … [Read more...]
