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• 11 Mistakes Made By First-Time Investors
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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
• 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 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 / 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
• 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 / 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 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 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
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• 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
• 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 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 Think in the Mediums Of Your Message
• 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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