Recap of Monday’s episode with Cody Berman, a checklist to optimize your hobbies, a highlight on the San Diego local group, and messages from the ChooseFI community.
- What great present did Brad receive from his mother for his birthday this past week?
- Brad recaps his first local adventure with his family.
- Jonathan presents an idea for a small business for Brad’s daughters.
- Will Brad be on the next “Survivor”?
- Jonathan remarks about the advantages of taking challenging courses in high school and earning early college credits.
- How can students finish college early, to minimize the opportunity costs of college?
- Brad recommends setting up “canned responses” in Gmail to optimize your emailing.
- Review of the value of jobs in college and what types of jobs could be the best for a student.
- How can one job help develop your FI potential in multiple ways?
- How can you optimize your hobbies?
- Related article: How To Get The Most Out Of Your Hobbies
- Jonathan’s checklist for hobbies
- 1. Enjoyment: it’s bringing enjoyment to your life.
- 2. Cost: it fits within a price range that you’re comfortable with.
- 3. Networking: brings you into a community.
- 4. Fitness: it makes you healthier.
- 5. Skillset: it adds to your current skillsets.
- Brad mentions the importance of pursuing mastery.
- Brad and Jonathan practice evaluating hobbies, determining whether they’re productive hobbies.
- Brad and Jonathan will be at Project Movement in Philadelphia. Catch up with them for a ChooseFi meet up on Sunday, July 22 at Yard Brewing Co. at 6 p.m.
- The San Diego ChooseFi group has begun using real-life submitted scenarios to develop FI plans for group members.
- Dan, from Facebook, is excited about replacing the air filter in his car – learning a new skill and saving money on car maintenance.
- Charlene is excited that her 15-year-old son requested setting up a Roth IRA for her son.
- Daniel, an active ChooseFi listener, mentions that the Navy Federal Credit Union just opened a new platform called “Easy Start Investor” for Navy Federal members, which shares some similar advantages as M1 Finance.
- Jonathan summarizes some of the benefits of M1. Check out our full review of M1 Finance to learn more.
- Message from Prussant, spoke with a group of new, young-adult recruits at work to introduce them to the concepts of financial independence.
- Leave a ChooseFI review by Monday, July 16, to win a set of discs from Cody Berman.
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