Freedom
The Power Of Forgiveness
- Reader Case: Single Mom in Debt - October 12, 2020
- Reader Case: Choosing Between Health and FIRE - September 25, 2020
- Let’s Go Exploring! Singapore: Futuristic Foodie Paradise - September 18, 2020
I have to admit, this is not an easy post for me to write. I’ve stopped and started a dozen times and lost track of how many drafts I’ve gone through, but, as they say, writing is about “bleeding on to the page”, so here goes: I’ve always had a difficult relationship with my mother. It’s not a personality clash or the usual generation gap, it’s the fact that I’ve always wondered if she wanted to have me in the first place. “I wish I’d never given birth to you,” is a phrase I’ve heard often. One time I thought […]
Let’s Go Exploring! Ubud, Bali: An Instagrammer’s Paradise
- Reader Case: Single Mom in Debt - October 12, 2020
- Reader Case: Choosing Between Health and FIRE - September 25, 2020
- Let’s Go Exploring! Singapore: Futuristic Foodie Paradise - September 18, 2020
Note: This post was written before the pandemic. We are still in Toronto and I put up this post for everyone who, like me, can’t wait to get out there and travel again Some places leave footprints in our hearts, transform our minds, and we are better for having visited it. They are so breathtakingly beautiful; we never ever want to leave. Bali…was not one of those places. Sorry to disappoint you, but my description was actually about Chiang Mai. I was hoping Bali would be another such place. But sadly, Bali did not live up to my expectations. So […]
How To Rewire Your Anxious Brain
- Reader Case: Single Mom in Debt - October 12, 2020
- Reader Case: Choosing Between Health and FIRE - September 25, 2020
- Let’s Go Exploring! Singapore: Futuristic Foodie Paradise - September 18, 2020
As an anxious person, I don’t do well with lack of control. With seemingly no end to this pandemic and no idea when or if we’ll ever be able to travel again, I’ve had to develop a routine to save my sanity. I found out about this morning routine from Chautauquan friends back in October, last year, when we travelled with them to Ireland. “You’ve never heard of Miracle Morning?” Dan asked, incredulous. Ugh. It’s one of those woo-woo “think yourself happy” mantras, I thought to myself. No thanks. As a logical person, anything with the words “miracle”, “secret” and […]
How Self-Isolation Taught Me About Happiness
- Reader Case: Single Mom in Debt - October 12, 2020
- Reader Case: Choosing Between Health and FIRE - September 25, 2020
- Let’s Go Exploring! Singapore: Futuristic Foodie Paradise - September 18, 2020
At the beginning of this year, our calendar was packed. We were going to fly to Austin for a Google talk, go to L.A for a documentary, fly to St.Louis to speak at the Financial Freedom Summit, visit friends in Colorado, and somewhere along the way, fit in a talk at a female empowerment retreat, and a silent ten day meditation retreat/Vipassana. I never thought I’d get back on a treadmill after quitting work, but inadvertently that’s exactly what we did. By saying yes to everything, we had no time to think or reflect. That all changed with the pandemic. […]
Holy crap, there’s a FIRE dating app!
- Reader Case: Single Mom in Debt - October 12, 2020
- Reader Case: Choosing Between Health and FIRE - September 25, 2020
- Let’s Go Exploring! Singapore: Futuristic Foodie Paradise - September 18, 2020
Dating inside the FIRE community has long been a problem we didn’t know how to solve. Traditional dating apps like Tinder weren’t a great fit, since they didn’t allow people to filter based on being part of the FIRE community. Plus the definition of who was or wasn’t part of the “FIRE community” was itself debatable. Was the solution to hold mixers as part of existing FIRE meetups? Did we want to piggyback off of existing communities like the Mustachians or the ChooseFI Facebook groups? Or did we want to create a new community entirely? All this was part of […]
