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Posts
- 11 Mistakes Made By First-Time Investors
- 11 Things to Consider Before Investing in Cryptocurrency in 2021
- 2010 Year in Review
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- 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
- 5 Steps to Embrace Lifestyle Deflation Without Deprivation
- 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
- Buffett’s 10/10/10 Rule For Making Financial Decisions
- Build Focus with Roosevelt Dashes
- Calculate Your FI Number With State and Federal Taxes (It’s More Than You Think)
- 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
- Financial Independence Groups: Meetups, Forums, Events and How To Find Likeminded People
- 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
- Here is Your Guide to the Best Personal Finance Software
- Here’s Why You Feel Exhausted: A Look at Thinking vs Doing
- 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 Many Stocks Should You Own In Your Portfolio?
- How Speculative Investing (No, Not $GME) Brought Me Closer to FI
- How To Conduct a Weekly Review to Keep Yourself on Track
- How to Declutter: My Uncluttering Manifesto
- How to Get Out of a Timeshare: 5 Proven Ways
- 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 To Make Money On Facebook and 14 Ways People Are Doing It
- 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’m 40 Today. Here’s What I Want From My Next 10 Years To Look Like
- 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!
- Investing for Beginners: From Your First $1 to $10k and Beyond
- 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
- Lessons Learned From A Year of Monthly Themes
- 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
- Minafi Summer Break, Life & Goals Updates for Q2 2021
- 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?
- Most Iconic Road Trips in Every State
- 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 2021 Year in Review
- My Biggest Investment Mistake and the Lessons I’ve Learned
- My Doomed Adventure Hiking the Highline Trail
- 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 Financial Spreadsheet: 5 Metrics to Track for Financial Independence
- 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 Life & Goals Updates So Far 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
- Startup FIRE
- 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
- Three Years of Early Retirement – Mindset Changes and Realizations
- Top 21 Zip Codes for Real Estate Investing in 2021
- Tracking & Forecasting Expenses with Mint, Todoist and Google Sheets
- Understanding the Expense Ratio and How It Affects Your Investments
- 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 Should Plant a (Symbolic) Garden For Early Retirement
- 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