Month: January 2021

Categories
Psychology

Enjoying Retirement: Are You Still a Useful Member of Society?

Keys to enjoying retirement: finding balance in your life in how you spend your time, accepting how society values what you do, and directing your own decisions. (Photo from a visit to Huntington Gardens in California.)

Overcoming the need to feel useful when you’ve left your career is key to enjoying retirement. Diversify your life to prevent work from being your identity.

Categories
Psychology

Your Yearly Theme: The Secret to Better New Year’s Resolutions

Are you desperately trying to hold up your New Year's Resolutions by February like my buddy here? Perhaps a Yearly Theme fits your brain better!

All those SMART goals might be the reason you keep failing at your New Year’s Resolutions. A broad “yearly theme” might be the motivation you need!

Categories
Finance

Homelessness Prevention Programs (and Dec. 2020 Budget)

With 2020 at a close, we review our December FIRE budget and take a look at homelessness prevention programs to donate to.

We review homelessness prevention programs for our donation, detail record high dividends in our December budget, and award a grant to Direct Relief!