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Find the Best Moving Company for You in 7 Simple Steps
Hiring professional moving services will save you time and stress and make your move that much easier.
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967: Beat Zillow to the Punch with the Lead-Gen Trifecta – Laurie Derickson and Kalene Zaabadick
Wouldnât it be great if you could get high-quality leads without paying outrageous fees to companies like Zillow? Todayâs guests, Laurie Derickson and Kalene Zaabadick, found the perfect system for exactly that! Listen and learn how they start conversations with buyers and sellers before sites like Zillow send them to other agents. Laurie and Kalene also share key steps to take before getting licensed, their secret system for staying top of mind effortlessly, and more.
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How To Burn Down Your House (And Why)
When it makes sense to burn a house down, the benefits spread throughout your community in ways you might not imagine and may never know about.
Early Retirement Extreme: The ten-year update
Today, I’m pleased to present a guest article from one of my favorite money bloggers of all time: Jacob Lund Fisker. Fisker founded Early Retirement Extreme in 2007. It quickly became an influential voice for the nascent FIRE movement. In fact, I think it’s fair to say that FIRE wouldn’t be what it is today with his work.
Fisker retired from blogging in 2011. Since then, he and I have exchanged long emails on sometimes arcane subjects. Occasionally I ask him for advice. Recently, I asked him if he’d be willing to update people on where he’s been and what he’s been doing for the past decade. He agreed.
Here, then, is Fisker’s story of life after Early Retirement Extreme (and extreme early retirement). Be warned: His story is not short.
Starting in 2007 (and largely finishing by 2011), I formalized a philosophical alternative to consumerism in the form of a 1000+ post blog and 100,000+ word book [J.D.’s review], which I mistakenly called “Early Retirement Extreme” (or ERE in acronym form). These days, I stick to the acronym form. 😛
Central to my philosophy was the renaissance ideal of spending your life mastering a productive level of competence in a broad range of subjects. This arsenal of “renaissance skills” would then be combined into a mutually reinforcing web-of-goals, which made living more interesting and balanced â but also more cost- and resource-efficient and resilient in the face of the growing complexities and uncertainties of the 21st century.
Being a theoretical physicist by training (and remaining one in spirit) compelled me to present all of this as a theory of everything, rather than the more typical format of a light non-fiction autobiography or overview. As I didnât really figure on a general audience â it was fairly non-existent back in 2008 â that also meant using graphs and equations when applicable.
The benefit of that format was that others could use the ERE design principles to construct their own particular plan according to their own individual circumstances and goals instead of retracing the footsteps of one particular individual.
Retiring from blogging
Eventually, I considered the problem of “How to escape the earn-buy cycle in order to live a more interesting life” solved and sufficiently “communicated”. In 2011, I stopped blogging. I continued to follow the ERE principles in the spirit of the renaissance ideal with the goal of solving other big problems. Being financially independent (FI), I no longer require any compensation even if I still appreciate it â if nothing else than just to keep score or divert the lucre towards more useful purposes (e.g. supporting people on Kiva or Patreon).
Career workers who don’t know me typically ask me what I do for a living, expecting an answer in the form of a job title. (That tends to get awkward and I still don’t have a clever response.)
Similarly, people in the FIRE community (and the media that now covers it since they discovered it a couple of years ago) expect a curriculum vitae in the form of instagram-friendly bucket-list of accomplishments. However, following the systems-based web-of-goals approach, it’s really hard to answer that in a way that satisfies linear formats.
I follow many different leads and do many different things â often concurrently â and sometimes in ways where they combine and result in new, unexpected opportunities (the serendipity effect). It’s therefore difficult to summarize the last ten years of my life in chronological order, so let me instead attempt it as a “skill” or activity-based resume in no particular order.
This format makes more sense since the ERE strategy is to learn something and add value to the process and its environment, a side-effect of which is that I usually don’t have to pay to solve problems and that I sometimes get paid. As a consequence, my spending also remains ridiculously low. (I’ll get to that near the end of this article.)
I apologize that this is long and boring, but ten years is a long time and one can get a lot done in ten years â not all of which might be as interesting to the reader as it is or was to me. So, for the sake of completeness and in no particular order, and perhaps with the hope that I don’t have to write another autobiography for the next ten years, here’s a first-hand answer to the question: “Whatever happened to Jacob Lund Fisker?”
How to Transform Your Home Decor on a Budget Using DIY Ideas … – The Copenhagen Post – Danish news in english
How to Transform Your Home Decor on a Budget Using DIY Ideas … The Copenhagen Post – Danish news in english
19 Tips on How to Save Money on Utilities
Weâve all heard the saying âItâs not easy being green,â but it can be if you follow these 18 clever tips and tricks for how to save money on utilities.
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Airstream Dream Team: These Women Travel the Country, Turning Retro RVs into Homes
Vintage is so very in vogue. These women left their full-time jobs to remodel Airstreams. Their first client project is a 1976 Sovereign.
Holiday Budgeting: A 3-Step Guide to Control Your Holiday Spending
The end of the year is here, the time where our collective attention usually shifts to the holidays. Whether itâs making travel accommodations, planning for parties, or shopping for gifts, âtis the season to keep holiday budgeting top of mind. Holiday budgeting is planning and setting limits for your budget during the holiday season. It’s
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What Is Estate Planning? Do I Need To Do This?
What is estate planning? Over the years, I have received plenty of questions about creating a will and estate planning. After all, anyone over the age of 18 probably needs to have at least some part of an estate plan. Quick note about an easy giveaway: Vicki and Amy are also giving away three of […]
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