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Bryan Alderfield
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Blogger at www.yourdailyfi.com. Fellow traveler on the path to FIRE. Author of "The Financial Independence Mindset," available at https://tinyurl.com/4hrduv2c
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The benefits of pursuing FIRE extend well beyond the financial. And they start well before you finally hand in your resignation.

One of the first benefits to arise is...

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The Feeling of Control
The benefits of pursuing FIRE extend well beyond the financial. And they start well before you finally hand in your resignation long before your peers. One of the first benefits to arise is a sense…
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May 17, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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Here are three key investing concepts that are super relevant in the current market environment

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A Few Key Concepts for the Current Environment
The Behavior Gap: Popularized by Carl Richards, this is the difference between an investment’s returns over a certain period and the actual returns an investor in that investment earns due to their…
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May 16, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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Here's a surprising behavior that will help you learn to spend less

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May 15, 2025 at 2:27 AM
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A lot of FIRE adherents get stressed out when their plan hits a speed bump.

Instead of freaking out, here's what to do...

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When the Plan Doesn’t Go According to Plan
A lot of FIRE adherents get stressed out when their plan hits a speed bump. Some unexpected but unavoidable expense arises. A move becomes necessary. A job is lost. Usually, they see the solution t…
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May 13, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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On the benefits of less

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The Benefit of Less
I’ll confess that part of my motivation for this blog is to convince people that they can live with less. And not just that they can live with less, but that they’ll be happier and better off livin…
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May 10, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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If you find yourself languishing in the boring middle of pursuing FIRE, here's something to try

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Abundance
It’s easy in the boring middle of pursuing FIRE to fixate on all the spending you’ve given up. The clothes and cars you didn’t buy. The vacations you didn’t take. The nights out that you passed up …
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May 9, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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If you're in the boring middle of pursuing financial independence, and you're feeling a nagging discomfort, a psychological itch, or some indefinable malaise, remember this...

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Some Perspective
Building on yesterday’s post, keep in mind that that 99 percent of the humans that have ever lived would love to have the problems we have today. Our nagging discomforts, our psychological it…
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May 7, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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Let's start with some classic FIRE advice, plus my two cents...

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Timeless Advice, Plus an Addition
Let’s start with some timeless advice from Mr. Money Mustache: “If you find you don’t have enough money to pay the bills or to afford something you really want, the solution is not borrowing the mo…
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May 7, 2025 at 2:12 AM
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Here's a key arrow to have in your frugality quiver

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Your Best Cheap Meal
A helpful arrow to have in your frugality quiver is at least one super cheap meal that you absolutely love. For us, it’s tofu, noodles, broccoli, and homemade miso hot pepper sauce. A full plate pr…
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May 5, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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If you're worried about AI affecting your job, here's one thing to definitely NOT do

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More on AI
Managers are going to be reflexively suspicious of workers who push back on the idea that AI will be useful in their field. The obvious suspicion is that these people see AI as a threat, fear that …
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May 5, 2025 at 2:08 AM
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There's a free benefit your employer is probably offering that you're not taking advantage of

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Free Tuition
Most workplaces offer a variety of training and upskilling opportunities. Take advantage of these. A lot of these programs are geared toward company-specific tasks. While they aren’t necessarily po…
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April 24, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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Three ideas about how to AI-proof your job

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AI Proof
I’ve been noodling around with AI for a few months now. While the technology is obviously impressive compared to the world I grew up in, I don’t think too many jobs are at risk just yet. I can see …
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April 19, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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There's one obvious thing that we do when we're trying to improve any aspect of our lives, that we mysteriously skip when we attempt to boost our finances

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Take the Time
Here’s a non-controversial idea: If you want to improve your physical health, you have to spend some time working to improve it. You need to go to the gym to lift weights or walk or run outside. An…
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April 17, 2025 at 3:52 AM
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If you've got some mental free time this weekend, here are six important questions to ask yourself to make sure your money and your values are lining up

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A Few Questions
What in your life would you never trade for any amount of money? How much time do you spend enjoying or nurturing that thing? What non-monetary thing would you like to leave behind after you die? H…
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April 5, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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Nowhere should you be more suspicious of “too good to be true” deals than in the financial realm

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Too Good to be True
Nowhere should you be more suspicious of “too good to be true” deals than in the financial realm. Con artists operate by finding people desperate to hear something and then telling them that exact …
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April 3, 2025 at 2:55 AM
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Forget everything you ever learned about personal finance.

Forget every blog post or book you’ve ever read, anything your parents ever told you about money, and anything any advertisements ever tried to sell you.

Now answer this question:

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Decide for Yourself
Forget everything you ever learned about personal finance. Forget every blog post or book you’ve ever read, anything your parents ever told you about money, and anything any advertisements ever tri…
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March 29, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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A key financial move to start thinking about this time of year

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Tax Time
If you are getting a tax return this year, resolve to invest at least some of it in your financial independence fund. How much you invest depends on your individual situation, but I tend to think m…
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March 28, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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Feeling like you're in a slump at work? Here's a practice I use to snap out of it

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Find a Why
Not every day at work is going to feel like a significant, fulfilling episode of your life journey. But when you find yourself in a slump, trudging through the days, try to generate some motivation…
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March 27, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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If someone is trying to sell you an investment product and can’t explain in plain, simple language why it will benefit you, be careful.

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Plain Language
If someone is trying to sell you an investment product and can’t explain in plain, simple language why it will benefit you, be careful. If you want to invest in a company or sector, but can’t expla…
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March 23, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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The power of journaling about your financial strategy

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Journal
Writers will often tell you that they don’t know what they’re thinking until they write it down. I’m like this. You might be like this as well, even if you’re not a writer. Try a few days of journa…
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March 22, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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It’s hard to be present when you you’re worried about money.

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The Gift of Presence
It’s hard to be present when you you’re worried about money. I’ve been there. There’s a background hum that drowns out what should be joyful moments. There’s a baseline of stress that robs you of r…
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March 18, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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A non-obvious benefit of the skills you acquire on the road to financial independence is the ability to go beyond what you’ve learned.

Here's what I mean...

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Chef Time
A non-obvious benefit of the skills you acquire on the road to financial independence is the ability to go beyond what you’ve learned. For example, about half of the dishes I make in a week won’t a…
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March 18, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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Sometimes, instead of reducing spending on a category, try eliminating it entirely.

For example...

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Go All the Way
Sometimes, instead of reducing spending on a category, try eliminating it entirely. Instead of reducing how much takeout you buy, go three months without buying any. Don’t buy clothes for a year. C…
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March 3, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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Channel your effort, your energy, and your emotions to the most productive purposes.

Here are five behaviors that will prevent you from doing that:

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The Right Fights
Channel your effort, your energy, and your emotions to the most productive purposes. Don’t host arguments in your mind against people you’ll never meet. Don’t alienate coworkers when working togeth…
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March 2, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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Let’s talk about the entertainment value of reading...

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Reading
Let’s talk about the entertainment value of reading. The average book takes about 14 hours or so to get through. This number can be much higher for genres like fantasy. The cost of reading can be z…
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February 28, 2025 at 12:44 PM