Congrats Purple who reached FIRE at 30!
Let me interrupt the regular schedule on this blog for a very special congratulations to my friend Purple from A Purple Life on her last day of work! This impressive lady has accumulated over 500K in networth in just about 9 years and took the courageous move of quitting her job and declaring herself FIREd […]
The Challenge of Planning the Transition to FI
I’ve often written about how I try to make the best of the journey to financial independence by integrating my core values and related activities in my present. While all of this sounds lovely and wise, in practice it can get really challenging and even more so when it comes to planning the transition to […]
Practicing our FI Life
Whenever we take time off from work I like to think that we are practicing our FI life. What is our ideal lifestyle if work becomes optional for us? What is the right balance of activities that makes everyone in the family happiest and feeling fulfilled? I know I’m not the only one doing this […]
Surround Yourself With Inspiration
The more you surround yourself with inspiration, the more opportunity you find to make progress with your goals and stay accountable. Inspiration can come in many forms. Essentially it represents examples highlighting how others have accomplished goals you want to achieve or surrounding yourself with people, who, in your eyes, behave in inspiring ways. This […]
A Simple Bare-Bones Budget
In the uncertainty of the current times, I’ve been so grateful that we have been tracking our expenses so diligently since at least 2014. Thanks to this habit, we have a pretty good idea of a simple bare-bones budget that we could implement by reducing certain expenses that we consider as discretionary expenses should we […]
Trying to Cope through a Pandemic
When the pandemic started, I initially thought that we would be like frogs in a boiling pot. Slowly getting used to this crisis and finding a new normal, not perceiving the danger of slowly getting cooked. Looking back 4 months later, I’m not sure if I was right or not. I still feel like there […]
Lowering the Scope
Half of 2020 (and more) has already gone by, and while it may have felt like a decade at times, I’m still having trouble grasping that we are almost in July now. It has been wild and strange. Yet, on the blog it’s been really quiet, except for the ModestMillionaires is 3 Years Old! post. […]
ModestMillionaires is 3 Years Old!
I’m so excited that my little blog is turning 3 years old today! If I would have known how much goodness documenting our journey towards financial independence would bring to my life I would have started it years before. 2019 on the blog: This was, by far, my most consistent year of writing. In 2017 […]
Gifting myself a break
The holiday stress is real! No matter how much thought I put in being mindful about celebrating Christmas and the new year, and how much I plan to have done things in advance and not rush, the week before the holidays always brings a lot of stress for me. As such, I decided that this […]
Questions to focus on enjoying the journey to Financial Independence
One of the main reasons I maintain this blog is to make sure I explore and document all my attempts to continue enjoying the journey on our path towards financial independence. I do not want to dedicate those years to solely focus on finding happiness once we would be able to quit our jobs, I […]
