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Live Differently
Every day, people decide to live very different lives than the majority. The key to finding a happy place in your life is to understand what is most important to you. It all starts with understanding that life is a mind game thinking differently and figuring out your permanent paradise. For more see the You Can Live Differently Page or check out the articles below.
- Why high-income earners still struggle to build wealth
- Think of your life as a blog post that went viral
- The day I realized that my life was crap, Part 1
- The day I realized that my life was crap, Part 2
- My retirement Renaissance: A journey from insane spending to retirement saving
- Here is why you might want to ignore our story
- Financial independence is not just for the “rich” or wealthy
- The pseudo-affluent: If you look rich, you probably aren’t
- The ultimate YOLO: Financial Independence
- The wisdom of financial independence without retiring early
- Here’s one of the most powerful videos I’ve ever seen on mindless consumerism
- A sample size of one
- What would you tell an 18-year-old kid who just asked you about money?
- With all we know about debt, why are so many people still in debt?
- The world according to this middle-aged white guy
- Why are careers in information technology unfulfilling?
- Counterpoint: Information technology jobs can be fulfilling
- What’s a goal for 2018 that scares you a bit?
- How a 10-year prison sentence inspired me to retire early
- Why this couple downsized to a 500 square foot tiny house
- What’s on your personal business card?
- How living in a 52 square foot room improved this guy’s life
- Love work, not your job
- Careful! You may not want to “be your own boss” as much as you think
- Is it unfair to be wealthy?
- Don’t brag about success; tell me your failures
- Would you work 60+ hour weeks for two years if it meant immediate retire?
- The awesomeness of not being important
- Working ’til retirement scares me to death
- What if we gave everyone a guaranteed basic income?
- Is life more difficult for those of us who are frugal?
- I could make lots more money if I worked much longer
- How a 24-hour work week might not solve the problem
- 7 things I learned working in corporate America
- It is okay to love your job! Really, it is!
- Turns out we can buy happiness, but not in the way you think
- The three things every school must teach our kids
- My commencement address to graduating seniors
- Why I may never own a home again
- What a layoff at work taught me about jobs
- What business role do you fill in your family? I’m the CEO
- The difference between FU money and FU, money!
- Why most people will never get rich
- What if everyone stopped paying attention to others?
- Why my wife and I are choosing to remain DINKs
- How much is your job really costing you?
- Why your $80,000 car doesn’t impress me any longer
- Think you need a 2000 sqft house to be comfortable? Think again!
- I don’t want a career, and here’s why
- What version of the “truth” do you believe?
- What has the American Dream become?
- Lookie there! Stats prove American ridiculousness
- Life is short, so live a little…they say
- How much money buys your happiness?
- What does Financial Independence mean to you?
- “What do you do?” Are you a plumber, or a hiker?
- Get excited about the little things in life!
- This New Years, don’t resolve, reflect!
- Why I quit my job as a high level manager
- Live like you’re poor, feel like you’re rich
- Is that Starbucks worth another decade of working?
- 6 simple statements that define my life
- Don’t listen to all early retirement and financial independence advice
- Are you free enough to pee into the wind?
How to Change Your Life
All of us have the power to change our lives in profound ways. This is about how to go from where you are now to where you want to be. The steps that you need to take. The habits that may need to be refined. The little things that can add up to extremely profound improvements in our lives. Read more on the How to Change Your Life page or the articles below.
- Want to retire early? Make lots of money and don't have kids
- The voices in my head were telling me to change my life
- Get rich with rentals – this guy reached financial independence in two years
- Your 4-step guide to building a ridiculously effective early retirement strategy
- 17 stupid simple ways to make early retirement easier
- The best advice I can give about retiring early
- How to master your early retirement lifestyle: Part 1
- How to master your early retirement lifestyle: Part 2
- How to master your early retirement lifestyle: Part 3
- The secret to becoming a successful mofo
- Your ultimate guide to being successful in absolutely anything you do
- Set yourself up for success by lying to yourself
- What this successful person WILL tell you
- Lyndon Johnson’s 10 keys to success
- The super secret key to success: Ask!
- How to 80/20 the hell out of your life – the Pareto Principle
- It is okay to be selfish
- Why compounding is better than gravity
- How to learn anything – fast and easy
- Use the Kaizen method to achieve amazing change
- Impostor no more! How one Ph.D. engineer bested her impostor syndrome
- Why you need a little “just in time” in your life
- How to calculate your total Amazon spending
- The truth about extended warranties, and what to do instead
- I live my life at the intersection of humble and confident
- If showing up is half the battle, what’s the other half?
- 9 ways to be above average
- How we automate our financial lives
- What’s your money’s purpose? No one ever got rich by saving money
- You don’t need any more financial advice
- What does your “I quit” letter look like?
- The one thing to start doing now to get rich in about a week
- You’re 40 and broke; now what?
- The 3 most critical steps to retire early
- Be sensible, not minimal – why minimalism sucks
- 4 financial questions to ask your significant other
- Do you find money talk boring? Try this instead
- No, we are not having kids; and yes, I am sure
- 10 simple steps to invest in a Roth IRA
- How to make $100 worth a whole hell of a lot
- Three lessons to know before pursuing a side hustle
- What I would tell my 23-year old self about life
- Five ways to be creative while working full-time
- Seven truths that turned out to be myths in my 20s
- Never strive to eliminate fear from your life – fear is healthy!
- How quickly can you spot an impulse buy?
- Why happiness is cloaked in not giving a shit
- 10 ways a smaller home will make us happier
- You don’t need to follow a “simple guide” to get rich
- How we use Personal Capital to track our money
- Small changes mean big improvements to your lifestyle
- How to manage student loans for college like a boss
- I have maxed out my 401k and Roth IRA, so now what?
- The remarkable lesson that Steve Jobs taught us about money and life
- Six simple techniques I use to work smarter, not harder
- How slowing down can take your life to the next level
- Lookie there! Spend money on experiences, not things!
- Lookie there! Apply intermittent fasting techniques to your spending habits
- Five gems that I wish I knew in college
- The art of staying positive
- Why are people so busy? Slow the hell down!
- How we budget our monthly expenses
- 8 life lessons that I will never forget
- Income vs. Savings: The epic battle
- Think positive and the rest tends to follow
- Are your cars ruining your future?
- Stay curious my friends
The Kill-It Series
This is a sub-series of How to Change Your Life on How to Kill It! So go for it!
- Kill It: Seeking perfection is your sworn enemy
- Kill It: Minimalism need not apply
- Kill It: Pay yourself first
- Kill It: Don’t let experts talk you out of success
- Kill It: Reduce exposure to advertising
- Kill It: Earmark your money and give it purpose
- Kill It: Automate, automate, automate, damnit!
- Kill It: Debt is the Mr. Burns of success
Living Your Dreams
What is it like to live a life we designed? To be financially free? To be able to wake up every morning genuinely happy and fulfilled in our lives? To find out check out the Live Your Epic Life page or the articles below.
- What would make you not retire early?
- Want to retire in your 30s? Cool! Here’s how I did it
- My name is Steve, and I just retired at the age of 35
- A day in the life of an early retiree
- This extreme cyclist retired early before it was a thing
- Performance review: One year anniversary of early retirement
- What is it like making over $900,000 a year?
- Would you delay early retirement to travel? This couple would!
- What an incredible summer of early retirement
- An inspiring story from a Yellowstone geyser
- I lost my six-figure income and I’m much happier
- After six months of early retirement
- I paid off my mortgage in less than 8 years
- Why I refused to take a sabbatical and quit instead
- Joe’s life-changing 2,200 mile hike along Appalachian Trail
- Our Next Life series: Part 1 – Quitting!
- Our Next Life series: Part 2 – Selling almost everything we have
- Our Next Life series: Part 3 – Picking our next home
- Our Next Life series: Part 4 – Making the move!
- Would you pay $164k a year to live on a cruise ship? This woman would!
- Putting happiness first: Meet Jason Fieber – he quit his full time job at 32 and now writes
Early Retirement
All things Early Retirement!
- The ultimate early retirement FAQ – income, net worth, monetization and more
- My name is Steve, and I just retired at the age of 35
- Why we’re risking a healthcare disaster in early retirement
- I am that early retiree who travels the country
- The four ways we’re making money after early retirement
- Dave Ramsey’s three keys to early retirement
- The freedom of turning down work in early retirement
- I’ll probably die young because I retired early; or, maybe I won’t?
- Debunking the top 5 myths of early retirement
- The sticky mix between early retirement and the mainstream media
- 8 not-so-extreme and non-ridiculous principles of early retirement
- Confessions of an early retiree: I don’t envy retirement
- It’s easy to be retired early when the market is great, huh?
- The thing that surprised me the most about early retirement
- Are million dollar early retirees ruining personal finance?
- Don’t think early retirement is possible? Okay, you may have a point
- Are early retirees rule followers?
- The “Holy shit, what am I doing?” side to early retirement
- You know you’re ready to retire early if…
- Some will never retire early, and it’s all their fault
- I retired early, but I’m no expert
- The best advice I can give about retiring early
- A day in the life of an early retiree
- Snowball of Early Retirement
- Do we deserve early retirement?
- How lean startup can improve early retirement
- 3 reasons why I won’t be a millionaire when I retire
- Do you have the confidence to retire early?
- How to ER: 5 easy habits early retirees practice everyday
- The incredible life phases of an early retiree
- 7 things those who will never retire say
- State of Our Retirement: Getting ahead of the game
- The game show logic behind early retirement
- How to address the “what if” scenarios of early retirement
- Believe early retirement is a privilege? I sure don’t!
- How to ER: Early retirees leave their comfort zone
- Your job vs. your work: Retirement police, listen up!
- Do retirees need to rethink the Trinity 4% SWR rule?
- How much does income affect your post-retirement lifestyle stability?
- I could never retire early, I’d be so bored!
- Planning our retirement by the numbers
- Want to retire young? Believe it or not, you already know how it is done
- What I think of Mr. Money Mustache
- How smart does one need to be to retire early?
Travel and Lifestyle
A big part of living your Epic Life is lifestyle and travel. There are so many options out there!
- Living on the road: Nine lessons learned from full-time travel
- My #1 RV-buying tip
- Living in the middle of nowhere is pretty damn cool
- How to follow our traveling adventures
- What they don’t tell you about living on the road
- We live in an RV, not under a bridge!
- Our Airstream now has full solar power!
- The downside of living in a 200 sqft Airstream
- Question time: Would you ever downsize this much?
- We’re Airstreamers, but don’t call us trailer trash!
- We bought our Airstream!
- 10 ways a smaller home will make us happier
- Could you live in an RV full time?
- Could you live in a tiny house?
How to Blog
Blogging has changed a lot since the 90s. Here are some of the most valuable lessons learned.
- Free course: How to start your own money blog
- 48 fresh strategies to increase your blog traffic in 2018
- How to deal with writer’s block and NOT publish crap
- How long does it take for your page to rank in Google?
- 12 of the most influential money bloggers in 2018, and what we can learn from them
- How I created a free email course using ConvertKit
- Rebuilding yourself (and your blog) after going viral
- The article I wish I read before starting to blog
- Want to start a YouTube channel? Here’s what you need to get started
- Say hello to my little friend! Rockaway Hosting
- How NOT to make money blogging
- What to do if someone steals your blog posts?
- Revise and Republish: A killer blog strategy
- How much is a Twitter follow worth?
- Want to be a full-time pro blogger? Be careful what you wish for
- After 1,000,000 blog hits, here’s what I learned about running a blog
- I switched the blog over to https…why?
- Find that blogging voice of yours!
- The truth about SSL and SEO
- I suddenly realized that I’m a professional blogger
- My review of SEO Audit Guide, a side hustle pursuit!
- Master your blog’s SEO by understanding Google
- My #1 tip for blog writing on the web
- How to build your blog’s traffic the easy way
- Making sense of Google analytics for bloggers
- How I prevent writer’s block and get topics for my blog
- How to use WordPress to hide your affiliate links
- How I create headline images using Photoshop and Pixabay
- How I use Buffer to help manage my Twitter account
- Blogging 101: How I manage my web hosting options – Digital Ocean vs. Bluehost
Guest Posts
We love guest writers. They write some amazing content! Check it out below and if you are interested in contributing make sure to see the Write For Us page.
- Why I turned down a sweet early retirement offer
- My crazy life: Why I started living on a boat
- The World Doesn’t Have To Make Sense
- A hard reset after losing everything in the Tubbs fire
- How to eat a hamburger
- Get rich with rentals – this guy reached financial independence in two years
- Use the Kaizen method to achieve amazing change
- Impostor no more! How one Ph.D. engineer bested her impostor syndrome
- Counterpoint: Information technology jobs can be fulfilling
- How these traveling house sitters saved over $5000
- How a 10-year prison sentence inspired me to retire early
- Leaving comfort for one of the world’s most expensive cities was a great financial decision
- Would you delay early retirement to travel? This couple would!
- Here is how a financial services company can scam you
- How to ask to Guest Post on a blog (and get it every time!)
- Living in a tent by a river to engineer in the city
- Personal credit rating guide for millennials
- Why we sold our souls for A mortgage
- Working ’til retirement scares me to death
- I paid off my mortgage in less than 8 years
- 10 simple steps to invest in a Roth IRA
- So you want to be a flight attendant?
- What they don’t tell you about living on the road
- Five reasons we chose a minivan to travel the country
- 4 things (New) lifers say and how to stop grieving your career
- Take amazing vacations on the cheap
- 4 ways to decrease your tax burden
- 5 money habits of the epically frugal
- The frugal way to manage your credit cards
- Writing Your Retirement Letter
- Achieving your Permanent Paradise
- How I Retired with $1 Million by 30 – Not!
- The art of staying positive
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