Charting Your Financial Course: The Significance of a Personal Investment Policy Statement
Imagine embarking on a cross-country road trip without a map or a destination in mind. You might meander aimlessly, take wrong turns, and ultimately find yourself far from where you intended to be. In the world of personal finance, failing to chart a clear path for your investments can lead to a similarly uncertain and […]
ESI Millionaire Interview
Every couple of years I like to go back and revisit some posts that reflected a point in time to see how far things have come. I wrote the below guest post as a part of the Millionaire Interview series for the ESI blog. It’s only been three years but boy…how so much has changed. […]
Making Dreams a Reality – New 10 Year Vision Letter
Written: September 4, 2033 Sent back in time to: September 30, 2023 Dear Dom, As the great Jim Rohn would say: “If you don’t plan your future, somebody else will. And you know what they have planned for you? Not much!” Adopting your own Manifest Destiny philosophy has played an instrumental role in making your […]
The Law of 50/50 Applies to Time As Well As Money
The law of 50/50 has served us so well in our financial lives, I decided to also apply it to how I spend my time. My love of money is really about the optionality it provides, and that is especially true with how I spend my time – especially these days. If you were to […]
Notice Anything New? What’s Next?
Welcome to the beginning of our next adventure. I started this blog in September of 2014. Holy crap, almost a decade ago! It’s true that time flies when you’re doing anything other than sitting on your a** – 😆 . It’s an interesting paradox for me personally in that I find it hard to believe […]
Financial Freedom Isn’t All About Accumulation
This site and most other personal finance sites spend a disproportionate amount of time talking about accumulation (i.e., saving, investing, and net worth). Accumulation is obviously the linchpin to growing one’s net worth, but at the end of the day you may need to remind yourself that all that accumulation actually has a higher purpose. […]
Q4 2022 – Detailed Financial Report #88 – Net Worth $10,245,337
Wow! I never imagined that it would take less than 100 financial update posts to reach my $10M net worth goal, yet here we are. Of course, I did switch from monthly to quarterly updates this year but that still would have put me at 96 posts vs. 88. It’s a little bittersweet that this […]
How I Turned $267 Into $20,500,000
One of the things I love about blogging most is the historical reference points left in the posts I publish. I started a business in early 2019 with the full intention of selling it. Some people dream of building a business that they run and then pass on to the next generation. In contrast, the […]