Posted in Financial Freedom, Goals, Happiness, Personal Finances on January 30, 2009 | 4 Comments »
All this talk of buying houses by Early Retirement Middle Way and Money on My Mind has me yearning for another property of my own. Of course, it’s completely out of the question for the moment because:
I’m in the USA for another two years so there is no point buying another house back in Australia now;
My [...]
Posted in Books, Financial Freedom, Goals, Happiness, Personal Finances on January 7, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I’m currently reading Your Money or Your Life. It’s one of those books which seems to have been raved about on many of the blogs I frequent. Based on the title, I figured it was just another book about how to make or save more money. I just finished the preface last night and I’m pleased [...]
Posted in Financial Freedom, Happiness, Inspiration, Simple Living on December 6, 2008 | 3 Comments »
I came across this video on One Green Generation the other day. It was the perfect reminder of what I want my life to be about. Why do I need to have a million dollars so I can retire and live the good life? Why not reassess what a good life [...]
Posted in Financial Freedom, Goals, Inspiration, Personal Finances on November 24, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I was tagged by Money On My Mind. Here are 6 things you don’t know about me…
In my life I’ve been a cleaner, waitress, surf shop assistant, kitchen cabinet maker, student, landlord, photographer and an aerospace engineer. I’ve rarely worked only one job at a time. As a teenager I worked three jobs in addition to going [...]
Posted in Financial Freedom, Happiness, Health, Simple Living on November 21, 2008 | 6 Comments »
I’m not sure how I stumbled upon the idea of voluntary simplicity, but it’s only been a recent discovery. In the last few months I have been extremely stressed; unable to sleep at night and sick all the time. I’ve always been a stressful person, but recently I’ve come to the understanding that most of [...]
Posted in Financial Freedom, Green Living, Happiness, Personal Finances, Simple Living on November 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“The time has come,” the Walrus said,
“To talk of many things:
Of shoes–and ships–and sealing-wax–
Of cabbages–and kings–
And why the sea is boiling hot–
And whether pigs have wings.
The Walrus and The Carpenter
Lewis Carroll (from Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There, 1872)
The time has come for me to finally start this blog. It has been a long [...]
