Hit the gym regularly with a smoother morning routine with the preschoolers
While I’m working on simplifying our family’s life to make room for the things we value most, one thing that has been difficult for me is to be consistent with my gym routine. Reading Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones by James Clear last month has […]
The FIRE Drill Podcast Interview
That’s right, you will get to listen to me talk this week in a new episode on one of my favorite podcasts: FIRE Drill Podcast with J from Millennial Boss. I was pretty nervous about this. Nervous enough to postpone my interview several months after having been invited. Part of the reason to delay was […]
How I Negotiated a Working from Home Position
In July 2018, I sat down with my manager to make a request that was rather rare in my organisation, I wanted to become a full time remote employee. I’d already been teleworking once or twice per week for the last 4 years or so, however a few different changes had made me long for […]
Blogging about our journey to FI in French and English
As some of you may have noticed, every article that I post comes out both in French and English. Indeed, before I even launched this website, I knew I would want it to be bilingual. There are a few reasons for this, some selfless but some others admittedly self-serving. First let me quickly lay […]
Playing with FIRE + International Financial Independence Awareness Day
As a Kickstarter perk, I got to watch the debut of the Playing with FIRE documentary. I actually watched it twice to really get my thoughts sorted on how it made me feel. Indeed, this is a movement I love dearly and I am happy that a more mainstream way of presenting it will become […]
Optimizing the training and courses offered by your employer
Within the last two years, I’ve taken various steps to increase my happiness at work. One first measure I put in place to increase my satisfaction in my work days has been to make the conscious choice to be more engaged in the way I select courses and training through my employer. Rather than simply […]
2018 Spending & Investments Review
The past year was quite busy for our little family, as briefly described in our last article celebrating 2 years of blogging on ModestMillionaires. Let’s get into the financial side of 2018 with a detailed review of our spending and investments for that year. Overview of our spending This year we also celebrated the first […]
ModestMillionaires is 2 Years Old!
That’s right! It has already been two years that I write (at an admittedly sporadic rhythm) to document our journey towards financial independence. While I don’t write nearly as much as I would like, I am very happy to maintain this blog and continue to pursue our trajectory towards financial independence. 2018 on the blog: […]
Increasing our Happiness at Work
I often suffer from the Sunday blues, that moment where, after a lovely weekend spent doing fulfilling and relaxing activities, the reality of the painful return to the 9 to 5 grind starts to settle in my thoughts. In an attempt to eliminate, or at least minimize my Sunday blues, I decided in the last […]
Mission : Reduce our Grocery Spending
Frugality is similar to mindfulness, you can easily lose it for a while especially with the busy way we live today, but fortunately, it’s always possible to regain your sense of frugality by bringing your attention to the appropriate things in your life. In our case, our grocery spending has been steadily increasing since 2014 […]
