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Financial Independence

Learn how to get wealthy, have the option to retire early, and have money work for you.

At the origin of this site, I asked the question of How Much Money You Need To Feel Rich. Later I explained exactly How Much Money You Need To Never Have To Work Again. Have you Claimed Your Unclaimed Financial Independence or do you fear that You’ll Never Be Able To Retire? Let’s look at 3 levers of financial independence:

Lever#1 Make More Money

–How To Get Rich in One Blogpost

–How To Raise Your Own Salary

-Maximize your take home pay with benefits and ESPP hacking

–Hack your returns with Active Incremental Investment Income

Lever#2 Spend Less Money

-Spend Creatively like How I Saved Over $100,000 Without Giving Anything Up

-Practice some Virtues of Frugality

-Understand the #1 Most Important money skill that we are never taught.

–My Top 80 ways to spend less Money

–How To Not Need a Budget

Lever#3 Invest

–Why You Won’t Beat the Market But Still Can

–How To Invest and Get Wealthy

–The Only Thing That Matters When Investing

–What is Most Important: Earning More, Spending Less, or Investing

Real Estate

–Digging In The Dirt For Pennies Until…

–Which Is Better Buying a REIT or Buying Property

–The 1 Secret To Making Money with Rental Property

–Rehabbing Your Trashed Rental Property in Days: Renovate to Rent in 9 Steps

Here are some thoughts on which lever is most important but that’s Just The Beginning. Browse the constantly expanding library of the financial independence pieces below…

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  • I Made Six Figures Off of Boring Interest Rates

    by Life Outside The Maze October 30, 2023

    Interest rates are boring…until they’re not. Over the past couple of years, understanding interest rates has made a six figure difference in my net worth. I’d like to explain while …

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  • Toxic Frugality and Financial Independence

    by Life Outside The Maze June 12, 2023

    There has been an alarming focus recently in the financial independence community around toxic frugality.  It has inspired me to reluctantly pick up my virtual pen.  The argument goes something …

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  • Financial Independence: The Stage You Are At Makes All The Difference

    by Life Outside The Maze November 21, 2022

    Have you ever heard financial independence advice that just seems 100% wrong for you? It could be that the advice is intended for someone at a different financial stage in …

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  • Financial Independence: Taking Stock

    by Life Outside The Maze August 24, 2022

    This past Friday, I stood holding a glass of Pliny the Elder talking to Pete aka Mr Money Mustache in the kitchen at his eponymous headquarters up in Longmont.  It …

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  • Um…I Have Cancer

    by Life Outside The Maze January 23, 2022

    As I slid into the MRI machine, it closed in around me.  Radiohead came on in my headphones singing “What the hell am I doing here…I don’t belong here.”  Talk …

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  • My House Burned Down!

    by Life Outside The Maze September 6, 2021

    What do you do when your house burns down? When you have rental properties it’s never good news when you get a text message from your property manager late on …

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  • Who To Trust on Your Financial Independence Journey

    by Life Outside The Maze May 17, 2021

    Let me teach you how to be financially independent and not need anything.  In order to do so I am going to need $49.95 preferably in small bills up front.  …

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  • Why The Internet Won’t Make You Rich or Happy

    by Life Outside The Maze May 10, 2021

    When you write online about financial independence and working toward living your best life, there is a certain pressure.  Are the things that I am telling people useful, truthful, and …

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  • Investing Lessons For Difficult Markets Like This One

    by Life Outside The Maze February 15, 2021

    Last year I mentioned on March 13th that I was laddering additional money into stocks over the drop.  Then on March 23rd I wrote the following excerpt in an article …

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  • How Much Money Do You Need to Never Work Again: Part 2

    by Life Outside The Maze October 26, 2020

    You are looking at all those digits on your investment account balance and thinking back on the journey.  Maybe this is you today or maybe it will be you in …

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Over the arc of my life and career a shift started to happen where I realized that I was at the point where I could stop working for other people to get financial independence and start working for myself to achieve happiness. I couldn't find a good...

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