As I've done every year on this site, I want to review my past year's financial results as well as make a forecast for the year to come. FYI, I'm writing this at the beginning of January even though it won't post for a couple months. As such, the numbers I'll be sharing aren't final yet (I'll sort through the official ones when I do my taxes). These have not been … [Read more...]
How to Have a Happy Retirement
A couple months ago an ESI Money reader sent me an email asking if I had ever read the book You Can Retire Sooner Than You Think. I said I hadn't but it looked interesting. A few days later I tracked down the publisher and asked to receive a review copy. They sent me one and I read it over two days while watching the NFL divisional playoff games (yes, I still … [Read more...]
How to Create a Great Retirement
When we attended our first retirement planning seminar, the presenter recommended the book What Color Is Your Parachute? for Retirement as a great book to plan an awesome retirement. Obviously, I couldn't let a comment like that pass me by, so I got a copy and started to read. I'm so glad I did! Today I'll take you through the book's main messages and share some of my … [Read more...]
Why is Inflation the Single Biggest Retirement Threat?
My top-recommended retirement book is How Much Money Do I Need to Retire?. It's written by my friend, Todd Tresidder, who blogs at Financial Mentor, and it's simply excellent! In fact, it's good enough to make my list of the only five money books anyone needs to read as well as be one of the 12 books that can make you a financial expert in a year. The book was … [Read more...]
Retirement Update: 3.5 Years
Here we are again -- time for another retirement update where I share what's going on in my life! For the record here's the last one. You may want to read it as some of the items mentioned in this post will assume you know what's in the former post. The past three months have been full of excitement, so let's get to the details! Life I spent a lot of time with my … [Read more...]
How I Lost Five Years of Early Retirement by Not Having a Plan
Here's another one of those "mistakes I made" posts that I like to do every once in a while. It has the added benefit of being a New Years resolution sort of post, which I simply love. :) Doing "mistakes posts" helps me (and ESI Money readers) remember that I'm not always the perfect money manager that this site often seems to make me out to be. In addition, it shows … [Read more...]
Our Meeting with Two Financial Planners
As noted in My Third Experience at a Direct Mail Retirement Seminar, my wife and I accepted an invitation to meet with Dustin (financial planner) and Gregg (Chief Investment Officer) from Accelerated Wealth. They had done an impressive enough job at the presentation to convince us it was worth an hour, plus I had a few questions I wanted to run by them, so why not? In … [Read more...]
My Third Experience at a Direct Mail Retirement Seminar
I know, I know. I'm starting to get hooked on these things! Ha! In case you haven't been following along, I've written about the first and second direct mail retirement seminars my wife and I have attended. After the second one, I didn't know if we'd go to another one, but turns out we did! I'm glad we did since this was a good one for a few different reasons. But … [Read more...]
Why I Bought Rockstar Finance After I Retired
Here's a fun post I think you're going to enjoy. I liked rereading the article since it was like visiting a bit of history. As many of you know, I bought a financial curation website called Rockstar Finance at the end of 2017. I worked on it for a bit over a year, growing and monetizing it, then sold it for over twice what I paid for it in March 2019. Since then, … [Read more...]
My Second Experience at a Direct Mail Retirement Seminar
When I wrote My Experience at a Direct Mail Retirement Seminar (and the associated post How to Prepare in Advance for a Great Retirement) I noted I had accepted an invitation for another retirement seminar. I attended a second one for a couple reasons. First, I was surprised by how good the first one was. Perhaps I had mistakenly stereotyped these as spammy, hard-sales … [Read more...]
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