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The new American dream: Living debt-free and attaining findependence
Conventionally, the American dream refers to a well-paid job, a family of two or three children and a new home along with a sturdy retirement nest egg. However, the impact of the economic meltdown as...
View ArticleFinancial Independence Q&A with Money on Trees
Here’s a Q&A about Financial Independence conducted with Money on Trees. The first part of the interview was posted Thursday morning here, with the second part scheduled for next Tuesday. Note that...
View ArticlePart 2 of Money on Trees Q&A on Financial Independence
Part 2 of the question-and-answer session with Money on Trees has been posted, here. Part 1 went up last week, here. In both cases, the focus is heavily on young people getting started in the working...
View ArticleYes, Millennials, you really can get rich … but slowly!
Today’s blog headline (minus the suffix I added) is also the subtitle of a free new investing booklet titled If You Can by William J. Bernstein. This is a terrific and short (16 pages) document that I...
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Editor At Large!
Well, here I am two weeks after becoming the Editor-at-Large for MoneySense magazine. You’ll see this title used often in the media world: typically, as in the case of Financial Post Editor-at-Large...
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One late Mega Retirement or multiple Mini-Retirements?
Photo Credit: Norman Evans, DigitalCitizen.com Here’s a new concept I’d not considered until I started reading the book pictured in the adjacent photo. Last time, we talked about semi-retirement and...
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Second Acts … and beyond
As this blog says ad nauseum, Findependence is not synonymous with full-stop retirement. Au contraire, financial independence merely sets the stage for entering another chapter of one’s life story....
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Degrees of Findependence
Long Branch section of Lake Ontario. Photo by J. Chevreau As my parallel Financial Independence blog at MoneySense.ca shows here, there are degrees of financial independence. For one-stop-shopping...
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Reimagining Retirement
The book pictured I picked up at the recent Write Canada 2014 writer’s conference in Guelph, Ont., the third time in five years I attended that event. Joyce Li is a project manager and motivational...
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5 myths of Findependence
The end of another tough “Findependent” day in Long Branch Now that a few months have passed since my “Findependence Day” arrived in May, I’ve gotten more clarity about some misconceptions some may...
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Catch the Wave: Cloud-based accounting
Cloud-based accounting means the end of shoebox accounting The book The E-Myth Revisited makes some amusing points about small business owners. Almost to a man (or woman), they loathe accounting. They...
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Extended Vacation as Mini-Retirement or Rehearsal for Retirement?
Ballooning in Cappadocia, Turkey. Photo by Helen Chevreau. Half way through a three-week vacation in Turkey, I’ve been experimenting with the idea of integrating a little work with the travel. As my...
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Introducing new e-books on Financial Independence
On Tuesday, Amazon Kindle Digital Publishing released the first of my two new e-books, entitled A Novel Approach to Financial Independence. These are not brand new projects but are short (15,000 words)...
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FinancialIndependenceHub.com and Findependence.TV launched
On November 7th, 2014 my associates and I launched two new web sites, both devoted to the topic of Financial Independence. The philosophy behind the new site was explained in the previous post about...
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A young investor well on the road to Findependence
Saxon Funk and wife Hailey. I always enjoy chatting with readers of my blogs, columns and books. The other day I had an especially enjoyable dialogue with a 28 year old Winnipeg-based real estate...
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A Novel Approach is a Bestseller in Amazon.ca’s Love & Romance category
A Novel Approach to Financial Independence is currently the #1 bestselling e-book in Amazon.ca’s Love & Romance category, as you can see in the screen shot to the left. Here’s the link to Amazon’s...
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The word Retirement scares off young people: let’s replace it with Findependence
The following is adapted from a speech I delivered to Toastmasters Port Credit this week. The actual talk was eight minutes long; this expanded version would take 15. As I look around this room, I...
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Guest blog: Why I pushed back my Findependence Day 5 years
By Robb Engen, Boomer & Echo Special to Findependence Day Last summer I thought I’d be financially free by 40. Reality – and unplanned expenses – set in this year and I’ve adjusted that ambitious...
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One can be retired and not financially independent or vice versa
Matthew Ardrey, T. E. Wealth The headline on today’s blog so perfectly sums up the subtle difference between “Retirement” and “Financial Independence” (aka “Findependence”) that I felt compelled to...
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Is “Extreme Working” as unbalanced as Extreme Early Retirement?
My latest MoneySense blog is on the pros and cons of Extreme Early Retirement, or its opposite, which one reader dubbed “Extreme Working.” It was in response to my recent column in the magazine about...
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