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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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  • The Risk of Building Too Much Wealth

    by Life Outside The Maze June 7, 2019

    I hear it often repeated that you can always make more money but time is the currency that you can never get back.  It only flows one way and that …

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  • Have You Claimed Your 10% Guaranteed Raise?

    by Life Outside The Maze May 3, 2019

    Get 10% more pay through ESPP Arbitrage

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  • Are Startups a Good Path to Financial Independence?

    by Life Outside The Maze April 26, 2019

    We’ve all heard the stories of billion dollar unicorns created by college kids and the overnight millionaire employees that work there.  If you work at a startup you get to …

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  • How I Lost $2500 Because of One Phone Call

    by Life Outside The Maze April 12, 2019

    After much work and learning, I was about to sell my first rental property at a hefty gain. As a courtesy to my buyer I thought I would water the …

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  • How To Save Over $100,000 Without Giving Anything Up

    by Life Outside The Maze March 21, 2019

    How can you save over $100,000 without giving anything up?  At school, my two kids get to pick a prize from the prize box if they are good or otherwise …

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  • The Only Thing That Matters When Investing

    by Life Outside The Maze March 13, 2019

    When I was a ninth grader, I started messing around with an old smoky spanish guitar that my parents had in the basement.  I didn’t even tune it and just …

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  • Digging In The Dirt For Pennies Until…

    by Life Outside The Maze February 11, 2019

    I got into real estate investing about 10 years ago.  For the grand cost total of nothing, I rented 8 books and 4 books on tape about real estate investing …

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  • The Virtues of Frugality

    by Life Outside The Maze January 1, 2019

    “He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.”    –Socrates. When I first started writing on this site, I didn’t appreciate that there …

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  • Why you will not beat the market but still can

    by Life Outside The Maze December 24, 2018

    A trusted VP that I worked with about 15 years ago told me that at some point he realized that “people don’t get rich from working, they get rich from …

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  • The Life Hack: How to retire now with way less savings

    by Life Outside The Maze December 12, 2018

    We’ve talked about how to get rich, and you’ve now been following some of my exploits leaving my job, creating an aspirational list, and putting together a daily life that …

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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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