What $100 a Month Truly Means In the ‘Community Taking Action’ section of today’s email (see below), Charity said her reducing $100/month in expenses “was not flashy” but I wanted to point out the immense value of every $100 reduction in life expenses: For every $100 reduction in monthly expenses, that’s a full $30,000 less …
Return of the Hot Seat I want to take a minute to say a huge thank you to everyone who responded to last week’s FI Weekly! With the news of Jonathan stepping back from the podcast, I was blown away by all the heartfelt messages of encouragement and gratitude plus all the amazing suggestions for …
Beginning of a New Era On the ChooseFI podcast Episode 392 that released yesterday, Jonathan announced that he’s stepping back as the on-air host of the podcast, and that would be his last episode. This is a ‘season of life’ change for him and he’ll continue to work on things behind the scenes at ChooseFI, …
Continue reading “August 30, 2022: Beginning of a New Era, What Have you Bought?, Free Events”
Student Loan Forgiveness I wrote a note about this in last week’s newsletter and wanted to remind you: If you or anyone in your family has student loans, or you know anyone with student loans for that matter, Episode 391 of the ChooseFI podcast that came out yesterday with Travis Hornsby from The Student Loan Planner is …
Continue reading “August 23, 2022: Student Loan Forgiveness, Legacy Binder, Reading Hack”
Learn to Read Financial Statements Brian Feroldi joined us on the show for Episode 389 where we took a look at the 3 essential financial statements and why it’s important for you to have a background knowledge of each. Short answer: Sure, it helps with stock investing, but it’s truly essential for not only business …
Local FI Communities I got this email last week from Christian: “The one change I’d like to make is fixing the lack of like-minded FI people I have in my life. Love my non-FI people but would love to not always be the outlier in the conversation when I suggest a coffee in the park …
FI Family Taking Action I genuinely love reading each and every response I get to this FI Weekly newsletter, so please keep hitting reply and passing along your wins and ‘1% better’ changes! In that spirit, I wanted to pass along an incredible email that David wrote in: “Hey Brad – I don’t think I’m overstating it …
Continue reading “August 2, 2022: FI Family Taking Action, The Munger Mentality, Community Wins”
Saving on College I don’t usually say things like this, but Jonathan and I have been in a real groove on the ChooseFI podcast recently, pumping out high-quality episodes with some of our all-time favorite guests. After doing this for nearly 6 years it would be easy to get complacent, but we’re honestly just having …
Continue reading “July 26, 2022: Saving on College, Internet is Free University, HotelSlash”
1% Changes Make a Huge Difference One concept we’ve talked about over the last 5 years on ChooseFI has resonated above all: The aggregation of marginal gains. Small 1% changes you make at the margins aggregate into massive positive change in your life. It’s time to start looking for these small improvements in every aspect …
Continue reading “July 19, 2022: 1% Changes, Gmail Productivity Tips, Community Wins”
The Simple Path to Wealth JL Collins is our most downloaded podcast guest of all-time, and his book The Simple Path to Wealth is nearly required reading for every member of the Financial Independence community. I saw a great post on Twitter by JRod Money with a curated set of 10 quotes from the book that will help you …
Continue reading “July 12, 2022: Simple Path to Wealth, Pre-Tax Investing, Kid Entrepreneurs”
Financial Independence Day I’m sitting down to write this email on July 4th, and in honor of Independence Day here in the US, I wanted to pass along some inspiring stories of Financial Independence your fellow FI Community members wrote in: Taking Action LJ & Tiffany wrote: “We’ve wanted to write for a while now …
Continue reading “July 5, 2022: Taking Action, Making Better & Wiser Choices”
Returns Over Time Morgan Housel recently published an article called “Keep it Going” on his blog at the Collaborative Fund, and it highlighted the power of sustainability in training for athletics and how it ties to investing. Here is a quote from Morgan’s article: “For the highest levels to be attainable over time, the process has …
Continue reading “June 28, 2022: Returns Over Time, Returns Visualized and Around the FI Community”
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