FIRE Adventures in Underemployment
Palliative nurse Bronnie Ware wrote a viral post back in 2009 where she listed the Top 5 Regrets of the Dying. I’m doing a post series about my thoughts.
This post focuses on the second most common regret, a particularly common one amongst Type A personalities in ultra-competitive industries.
#2 I wish I hadn’t worked so hard.
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One of the reasons why I’ve pursued FI is because I want to learn from and avoid the regrets of those who have gone before.
In her 2009 blogpost entitled Regrets of the Dying, palliative nurse Bronnie Ware outlined the top 5 regrets that people have as they lay on their deathbed.
I came across references to it in many books. Avoiding these regrets became one of my driving forces in pursuing FI.
This is a series on my thoughts and musings about each one.
#1 I wish I’d had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me.
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Something pretty unexpected happened during the third month of my unemployment. Amazingly, my anxieties and stress about money, which were always in the background ready to jump to the fore, faded to a quiet murmur. I started to become beyond money.
At least for now.
And when I say beyond money, I mean that money no longer engenders in me the negative emotions as it did in the past. Instead, it allows me to conceive and achieve my goals.
Continue reading “My Termination 3 Month Anniversary – Beyond Money…For Now”
I went to the gym recently, the first time in roughly 12 months. I had taken a break from my expensive, high end gym in New York City in order to reduce a high recurring expense. But then I cancelled it because my job at that time had become really stressful, and I didn’t have time for consistent gym work out sessions. Big mistake.
The Person Who is Clever and Lazy Qualifies for the Highest Leadership Posts
– General Kurt von Hammerstein-Equord, 4th Chief of the German Army Command, Weimar Republic
I came across the above quote a few years ago during my path to financial independence.
I thought it was extremely obnoxious, overly simplistic, and yet disturbingly true.
Continue reading “Clever and Lazy is the Sweetspot for… Financial Independence Retire Early?”