Category: Blog

For the first time in our lives, we traveled with a guide and a schedule to Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. The cost of t...

Written by Adam on August 6, 2018. 32 comments.

Exposure to computers from an early age helped me feel comfortable and confident when creating with them later in life.

Written by Adam on July 30, 2018. 6 comments.

Every quarter I analyze my investments, share my net worth and assets with the world. This was a crazy quarter. My in...

Written by Adam on July 23, 2018. 10 comments.

What would you do if you could plan out every minute of every day? Would you schedule activities, leisure or work? I ...

Written by Adam on July 16, 2018. 3 comments.

Each quarter I lay out a bunch of goals I want to tackle. For this quarter, I’m aiming to get healthy, write a book a...

Written by Adam on July 9, 2018. 1 comment.

In Q2 I set very ambitious goals – explore Utah, be healthy, make money, draw more visitors to Minafi. In retrospect,...

Written by Adam on July 2, 2018. 3 comments.

ESPPs, or “Employee Stock Purchase Plans” can be one of the most lucrative benefits offered to employees – if they’re...

Written by Adam on June 25, 2018. 17 comments.

Minafi.com was launched about a year ago, but like all stories, Minafi’s starts in the middle. Here is the background...

Written by Adam on June 21, 2018. 8 comments.

What if I told you that you could sell your used car for $150,000? We recently sold our second car, going to a one-ca...

Written by Adam on June 18, 2018. 9 comments.

If you want to achieve financial independence earlier in life, there’s a lot to know! Budgeting, investing, tax-strat...

Written by Adam on June 11, 2018. 4 comments.

If you received $1 million tomorrow, what would you do? How will taxes work? How much should you save from it? Will t...

Written by Adam on June 4, 2018. 10 comments.

What do you want your life to be? One way to understand that is to create a list of the 101 things that you want to s...

Written by Adam on May 28, 2018. 8 comments.

Every quarter I go over every expense I have and categorize it. This has led to a wealth of information on my own spe...

Written by Adam on May 22, 2018. 11 comments.

People use the terms “fire”, “lean fire” and “fat fire” all the time – but what do they mean? In this data-driven pos...

Written by Adam on May 14, 2018. 22 comments.

What is your path to early retirement? Having a set goal is one thing, but designing a life with an irresistible stai...

Written by Adam on May 7, 2018. 5 comments.

The salary difference between men and women has been studied in many different times in many different fields. In eac...

Written by Adam on April 30, 2018. 28 comments.

The 4% states you need your yearly spending times 25 to retirement. One question I get a bunch is around the idea of ...

Written by Adam on April 26, 2018. 4 comments.

You don’t need to be a master to accomplish your goals. Spending all of your time perfecting one aspect can hold you ...

Written by Adam on April 23, 2018.

Why do you want to retire early? This question and more are key to keeping your motivation going and growing grit whi...

Written by Adam on April 19, 2018.

A snapshot of my finances as of April 1, 2018. We were down 1.5% for a total of -$19,120.00 for the quarter. This inc...

Written by Adam on April 16, 2018. 9 comments.