Know your optimal working conditions
In my quest to increase my happiness at work, I’ve realized that an important component of becoming better at my job is dependent on my working conditions. The main way for me to have some control and influence over these conditions is to develop skills to communicate my value and needs efficiently to my employer. […]
My First FinCon Experience : Thoughts and Emotions, So Many Emotions!
A little less than a year ago, I did a crazy thing. I bought a ticket to go to FinCon19 without any idea if I could or would attend. You see, I had just recently started interacting with the personal finance community on twitter and FinCon18 was going down and seemed amazing. I watched on […]
Accepting the Boring Parts of the Financial Independence Journey
It’s the third time I’ve checked the spreadsheet today, tweaking a few numbers here and there, but nope, not much of a difference on our timeline towards our financial independence. This usually hits during a more boring workday, or when I’m stuck in procrastination mode. Thankfully, with time, I’ve gotten much better at noticing and […]
Money Anxiety Ladder
Anxiety about money should be pretty low at the point where we are on our journey, however I continue to encounter it in different circumstances. The amazing Kara owner of Bravely Go and co-host of the wonderful Fairer Cents podcast has a great description of financial anxiety in her article entitled : I’m a Finance […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Why the Modest Millionaires are Reaching for Financial Independence
Many have questions with regards to our 2025 Plan for reaching financial independence at a young age. Indeed it is quite out of the ordinary to choose to live a more modest life in order to reach the financial freedom that will allow us to choose to work or not way before the average age […]
The Wealth of Simplicity
Have you ever questioned your spending? Ultimately, the real reason we spend money is to find a certain quantity of happiness. I’m not talking about the momentary happiness that the purchase of a piece of clothing or the latest popular electronic gadget will bring you but real happiness, from what we consider that this purchase […]
