Financial and lifestyle resources to help you live life on your terms.
I have a special treat today. Meghan Chomut, CFP asked me to have a chat Live on Facebook and it was a hoot!
We talked Financial Independent, lifestyle, career, debt, saving, spending and, of course, BOOKS!
Read MoreIt was a regular Thursday morning. I got in my car to start heading to my local Toastmasters Club meeting. I closed the door and could still hear the outside world as opposed to the usual quiet nothing that results. How weird, I thought.
Read MoreEnya’s song Orinco Flow keeps popping into my mind these days, so much so that I’ve finally downloaded it to my personal music library.
Why this song?
Read MoreIt started in my late teens. I had this feeling in the pit of my stomach that told me that I didn’t have to follow the rules as scripted. I went to school, then university, worked in my family’s small business and tried to ignore my gut. I enjoyed school and work but, again, that nagging feeling was there. I just kept getting better at suppressing it by becoming an adrenaline junky off hours.
Read MoreI've met a number of rainbow chasers over the last number of weeks. I'm sure you have too. They're all around us. Their head is in the sand, in the clouds...it's anywhere other than where it matters most.
I know the type. I used to be one.
I used to chase rainbows, those fantasies we're all taught to chase. But fantasies aren't our dreams. They're ideas we know deep down aren't real but we kid ourselves into thinking they'll solve our problems...forever.
Conversely, dreams are desired future states that are *gasp* plausible. In what you can picture, you're still you, only better and more fulfilled. It's not perfect, but it's the good life you aspire to. It's a potential future state of what's real.
Read MoreAs our world gets bigger, as complexity increases, it’s easy to get lost in it. It’s easy to feel irrelevant. It’s easy to feel that what we do doesn’t matter…that we don’t matter.
Read MoreDon't know about you, but I’m sick of living in the city. The traffic, the loss of darkness, the noise, the pollution, the loss of lasting community involvement, the overwhelm of crowds and endless amounts of concrete…and the constant desire for a better life.
So why do I stick around? Good question. Why does anyone?
Read MoreMy husband has been interested in going for a ride in a glider for over 13 years. Seeing a potential opportunity during our honeymoon peaked his interest and, unfortunately [or fortunately], it’s been on his bucket list ever since.
Well, he finally managed to scratch it off the list this past weekend when he, our goddaughter and I drove a 1/2-hour out of the city for a chance at the experience. And we were lucky too because, based on the current weather forecast, I think this was the last truly beautiful weekend for us this year.
Read MoreMy favourite movie of all time, and the one that helped me start thinking about how I should and could live life on my terms, is The Matrix
It's not because I thought I could kung fu fight my way through life, but it was the numerous messages throughout the movie that made me question steps in life that we just take for granted as being "normal".
Read MoreYou know you can taste it, that feeling you will have once you've freed yourself of what it is that is holding you down or holding you back. That feeling is yours if you want it.
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