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11 Mistakes Made By First-Time Investors
2010 Year in Review
2011 Year in Review
2012 Year in Review
2013 Year In Review
2014 Year In Review
2015 Year In Review
2019 Federal Tax Brackets – What Rate Will You Pay?
21 Activities To Keep You Focused On Your Future [or to help during social distancing]
37 Inspiration Minimalism Quotes to Help You Simplify Your Life
5 Steps to Change Your Default Consumption Behavior
6 Thoughts After 6 Months of Early Retirement
7 Features From Minafi v2 I’m Excited to Announce!
7 Lessons and 2 Mistakes From My First 3 Months of Early Retirement
7 Mindsets to Thrive in Financial Independence
7 Things Learned in My First Month of Early Retirement
9 Songs About Money You Won’t Hear on the Radio
A Day of FIRE – Expectation vs Reality
All my Coworkers Just Learned about my Blog – Here’s What Happened
All You Need is Less
A Look Back at My First Year of FIRE
An Interactive Guide to Portfolio Diversification
April 2019 Investment, Goals and Spending Breakdown
April 2020 Theme: Create
August 2020 Theme: Empty
August / September 2017 Personal Goals & Review
Avoiding the Lifestyle Inflation Trap
Be Mindful of False Productivity
Betterment vs Wealthfront Guide: Which is Right For You?
Buffett’s 10/10/10 Rule For Making Financial Decisions
Build Focus with Roosevelt Dashes
Challenge Yourself with Weekly Task Planning Using Todoist
Coinbase Review: The Easiest Way to Get Started Investing in Bitcoin
Commitment Devices for Minimalism and Simple Living
Comparison is the Thief of Joy, but How Do You Stop?
Create a Consumption Ledger
Creating an Identity Bridge for Early Retirement
Data Says the Millennial Early Retirement Age is 40 – Here’s How They Could Do It
December 2017 Goal Review: Minafi Content & Settling into Salt Lake City
December 2020 Theme: Enjoy
Digital Minimalism Review and My Month Without Social Media
Does This Mean the End of the FIRE Movement? [Answer: No]
Do You Need Luck to Reach Financial Independence and Retire Early?
Do You Vacation or Travel?
Earning Time
Exploring the Compound Interest Formula through Examples
Exponential Growth Calculator [solve for any variable]
February 2018 Goals Review – Use Everything
February 2018 Goals – Use Everything
February 2020 Theme: Finish
Fernweh – A Longing for Travel and Places Unseen
Financial Freedom Book Review – A Guide to Retiring Early
FinCon 2019 – Washington, D.C, Friends and Inspiration
Find Your Irresistible Staircase to Early Retirement
Foregoing Cultural Cognizance
Growing Kids Self-Control For $5 a Week
Handling Blame
How A Basic Investing Mistake Cost Me $250,000 (and I Still Made it Twice)
How Are Bonuses Taxed? (with Bonus Calculator)
How I Learned to be Less Critical of Others
How I’m Setting Goals During Early Retirement
How I Would (and Do) Invest $1 Million
How Speculative Investing Brought Me Closer to FI
How to Declutter: My Uncluttering Manifesto
How to Invest During a Bitcoin Bubble
How to Invest Your First $1,000 and Double Your Money (In Time)
How to Listen to 100 Audiobooks a Year
How Tradition Tricks You Into Wanting Things You Don’t Need
How We Spent $15,000 on Our Honeymoon and Why We’d Do It Again
If You Want to Reach Your Goals, Track Your Activities
I Just Sold My Used Car for $150,000+ FI Dollars
I Make Enough Money to Live in a Minimalist House
Improve Your Focus By Setting Monthly Goals
Introducing the Minafi Salt Lake City Early Retirement Community!
Investment Literacy: Understanding the Basic Concepts
Is FIRE A Hero’s Journey?
I’ve Tracked My Spending For 8+ Years and Here’s What I Learned
January 2018 Goals Review – Minimal Investor Course Update
January 2018 Goals – Writing Entirely Too Much!
January 2020 Theme: Focus
Joy is a Skill, Remember to Practice It
July 2017: Monthly Goals
July 2020 Theme: Vision
July / August 2017 Personal Goals & Review
June 2017: Monthly Goal Review
June 2019 Goals, Investments & Spending – Running, Camping, Focusing, Sleep No More
June 2020 Theme: Explore
Lagom: Swedish Minimalism for Enough
Living for Tomorrow vs Living for Today
Make Fewer Choices with Decision Minimalism
March 2018 Goals Review – Slow Movement
March 2018 Goals – Slow Movement
March 2019 Investment, Goals and Spending Breakdown
March 2020 Theme: Routine
Mastery is a Trap
May 2020 Theme: Work
May Goals, Investments and Spending – Running, Hiking and Enjoying Time Outside
Medium Journaling is Minimalism
Minafi 1 Year Birthday! What I Learned In my First Full Year Blogging
Minafi 2017 Q3 Fall Investment Report
Minafi 2017 Q4 Winter Investment Report
Minafi 2018 Q1 Spring Investment Report
Minafi 2018 Q2 Summer Investment Report
Minafi 2018 Q3 Fall Investment Report
Minafi 2019 Q3 Fall Investment Report
Minimal Hurricane Preparation
Minimalism is Learning to Accept Losses
Minimalist are not Nomads, but Nomads are Minimalists
Mint Mobile Review: For $15/Month Is It Worth It?
Mint vs YNAB – Which Budgeting App is Right For You?
Mutual Funds vs ETFs: What’s the Difference Between Them?
My 2016 Year in Review
My 2019 Year in Review
My 2020 Year in Review
My Failure Resume: A Story of 22 Failures Over 18 years
My Favorite 100 Books Read in 2018
My Favorite 130 Books Read in 2019
My Favorite 66 Books Read in 2017
My Favorite Books for January 2018
My FinCon 2017: Accidental Connections, Beer & Memories
My FinCon 2018: Friends, Inspiration and Motivation
My Four Phases of Financial Independence
My Goals For 2021
My Personal Goals for Q2 2018 – Health, Growth and Creation
My Personal Goals for Q3 2018 – Health, Book & Interactive Guide
My Personal Goals Review for Q2 2018
My Reaction to the 2008 Recession and Why I Still Invest in Bonds
My Secret Weapon for Minimalism: A Crazy Fast Photo Scanner
My Top 10 Favorite Posts on Minafi from 2017
Newspaper Mindfulness Exercise
Novelty
November / December 2017 Goals & Moving Status!
October / November 2017 Goals & Moving Announcement!
Our 7 Rules of Travel Spending
Our New $6,000 Car
Pay Fewer Fees by Reverse Engineering Retirement Date Funds
Plan Your Perfect Week in Retirement Today
Practice Poverty
Prevent Your Investments from Theft! Secure Your Vanguard Account with Yubikeys and Google Voice
Reduce Kitchen Clutter with The Dishwasher Challenge
Seeking Mentors
September / October 2017 Personal Goals & Review
Seven Takeaways from My Second Year of FIRE
Simplify Your Desktop with Bartender
Slow Minimalism
Spotlight Your Potential with Keystone Habits
Stoicism In the Time of a Market Virus
The 6 People Who Inspire Me The Most
The 7 Most Common 401(k) Mistakes [and how to fix them]
The Bulletproof Strategy to Develop a Morning Ritual
The Burden of Now
The Complete Guide to Withdrawing Funds Early From Your 401(k), IRA and Roth IRA
The Definitive Guide to Tax-loss Harvesting and Avoiding Wash Sales
The Focused Investor 1: Alexander from Day Trading Z Robots vs. Human Traders
The Focused Investor 2: OthalaFehu on Preparing for the Worst with Precious Metals
The Focused Investor 3: Enoch Omololu from Savvy New Canadians on Index Investing
The Focused Investor 4 – Lily from Merry For Money on Confident Investing
The Gender Pay Gap Told Through Data From the Finance Blogging Community
The Last Gift My Mom Ever Gave Me
The Minafi FIRE Prowess Score
The Minafi Money Map
The Minimal Investor ESPP Guide and Calculator
The Only Piece of Luggage You Need
The Periodic Table of FIRE! [Interactive]
The Real Cost of LASIK Eye Surgery – Is It Worth it?
There is No Such Thing as a Minimalist Life
The Rule of 72 Calculator: How to Perform Compound Interest Calculations In Your Head
The Shockingly Scary Difference Between Healthy FIRE and Unhealthy FIRE
The Simple Path to Wealth Book Review
The Simple Three Fund Portfolio at Vanguard
The Woke Investor – Investing Tips For When You’re Already Awesome
Tracking & Forecasting Expenses with Mint, Todoist and Google Sheets
Understanding Your Asset Allocation with Spreadsheets and Personal Capital
Use Buffett’s 25/5 Technique to Prioritize Personal Goals
Use Savings Rate as a Lifestyle Inflation Canary
Want Streaks
Week in Review – December 30, 2017
What Are You Accidentally Accumulating?
What Does Financial Independence Mean to Me? Is it Just About Quitting and Retiring?
What is Financial Independence?
What is Your Personal Mission?
What is Your Rainy Day Project?
What Opinion do you Hold that Many People Would Disagree With?
What’s a Moment Where You Felt The Most Euphoric?
What Should You Do With a Sudden Windfall?
What’s the Difference Between Fire, Lean Fire, and Fat Fire?
What’s Your Growth Story?
What’s Your Weekly Spending Distribution?
What You Should Know About Investing At Every Age From 16 to 60
When Are You On Autopilot and Not In the Moment
When Pursuing Early Retirement, You Must Be Armed With a Bag of Whys
Where Are You On the Financial Independence + Retirement Matrix?
Where Are You on the FIRE Spectrum?
Where Are You On The Minimalist Living Spectrum?
Which Accounts Should You Use to Invest for Retirement? [Interactive]
Which Investment Accounts Should I Use?
Why I Avoid Dividends Like the Plague
Why I Don’t Blog Anonymously
Why I Don’t Care About Free Stock Trades (And You Shouldn’t Either)
Why I Don’t Want to be a Landlord or Invest in Real Estate
Why I’m Glad I Didn’t Learn About FIRE in My 20s
Why I’m Going for FIO – Financial Independence with Options
Why I’m Loving Apartment Living After 35 Years in a House
Why I Turned Down Double My Salary
Why Minafi’s Logo is a Torii
Why Should I Invest Now? — How To Be Brave & Start Investing
Why Write An Interactive Guide to FIRE?
Why You Should Create a Local Bucket List
Why You Think in the Mediums Of Your Message
“Won’t You be Bored?” Why Creatives Thrive in Financial Independence
Work Optional Book Review: An Actionable Guide to Living Your Best Life
Write Your ‘Year in Review’ Post Now
You Can’t do Everything: How I’m Prioritizing What to Start, Stop and Continue in Retirement
Your House Doesn’t Count Towards the 4% Rule

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