I’ve done fairly well in finance and I think I’ve been very savvy with my money so far. Savvy enough that I hope to be able to have the option to permanently retire in ten years if I choose to do so. I’ve heard and read about people in the FIRE movement who were able to achieve financial independence or retire early, and one of my goals for the past five years or so has been to try to reach a version of this. I enjoy my day job and love working with numbers, data and spreadsheets, so I’m not sure I can permanently retire so early and give up earning six figures a year, especially in a field and career I like. So my goal has been to “retire” for one year after working ten years and then repeat that cycle again in my forties and fifties, until, God willing, I permanently retire in my sixties. Decennial FIRE if you want to call it that. Either way, I think I’m now in a position where I can finally take a year off and am planning to start my decennial “retirement” sometime in early 2020.
Without getting into the details right now, I think I’ve been financially successful for several different reasons and I want to help others become financially successful as well by sharing my past, present and future experiences, accomplishments and failures. I’m not money-rich, but I’m probably doing better than the average person, so I want to help others learn better ways to manage their finances and “overstand”1 money. I want people to realize how the financial choices they make, or don’t make in some cases, can have long term consequences. I want to help others become elite with money so I created this website, MoneyElite.blog, to primarily serve this purpose. I will share some details about my personal finances along the way, but I’m only doing this to inform and engage readers with real life examples about money and finance. I will occasionally post other non-finance related material on this blog because money obviously isn’t the most important thing in the world. So from time to time I’ll share other content that I think most people will appreciate and hopefully find useful or insightful.
I have a day job, a family and many other responsibilities and commitments right now, so I’ll try to update this website as frequently as possible, perhaps on a weekly basis. If you find this website helpful, I just ask that you occasionally share it with your family and friends. Any comments or thoughts on any post in this blog that you like, find beneficial or even disagree with would be appreciated also.
