It’s easy to get down on ourselves when things don’t go our way. I hope this post brings some encouragement to my readers (and to myself). I’ve set many goals for myself. Some I’ve given up on and some I’ve been able to achieve, just a little late. Here are some goals I’ve set recently … Read more
Ever since we hit our goal of $1M net worth, I went from doing monthly updates to just twice a year. It was a lot of work to post monthly, and I felt like semi-annual updates would give me (and my readers) a good idea of how things are going. A few things happened in … Read more
Last month, we decided to pay off our mortgage. It wasn’t an easy decision. By the way, no, that’s that’s not a picture of our house, silly! That’s just a stock photo. I wouldn’t put a picture of our house on the internet. I only put up all of our finances for the world to … Read more
On our recent trip to California, we decided to drive as (many) Californians do and rent an electric vehicle (EV). My wife did most of the planning for this trip. With gas prices hovering above $6/gallon in CA, we decided to rent a Tesla Model 3. She rented it on a platform called Turo for … Read more
Wow, we’re at the end of 2021 already! Here is my year-end financial summary. I’m doing these financial updates twice a year now (semiannually) to keep track of my progress. This is the year we finally became millionaires (read that post here). After over 5 years of hard work and tracking that goal, we eclipsed … Read more
This is the 5th monthly update on my goal to run a 5 minute mile (see post here). I’ll keep track of my training and progress here. Training For the most part, I neglected my speed training this month. Instead, I ran a 50k and a half marathon. With the cold weather, the holiday season, and … Read more
This is the 3rd monthly update on my goal to run a 5 minute mile (see post here). I’ll keep track of my training and progress here. Training I ran a little less this month as I was busy with real estate (4 closings in September) and life (kids). I joined Planet Fitness because they just … Read more
It’s been a couple months now since we hit the $1M net worth goal (read about it here). I decided I’m still going to track my finances, but just twice a year now. This is the 2021 mid-year financial update. I’m going to spend more time writing about other things going on in my life. … Read more
Like my catchy title? 😉 I’m following the lead of YouTuber TechLead, who uses the word “millionaire” in almost all his video titles. He has some interesting videos, and I find his dry humor amusing but also full of wisdom. After setting a goal 62 months ago to achieve a net worth of over $1,000,000, … Read more
Well, here we are! Officially at a net worth of over a million bucks. It took 62 months to get here since setting this goal in February 2016 (starting at a net worth of about $311k). I’ve been faithfully keeping track of the monthly progress on this blog and writing a quick snippet of what’s … Read more