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Category: Financial Independence

The Fun Part of Trying to Hit Financial Freedom

December 6, 2013 JustinRoG Financial Independence, Lifestyle, Personal Finance

The following is a guest post from Martin of Studenomics, where he helps you with launching something right now. Why waste time when you can grab control right now? When we think of saving money,

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Three Months of Early Retirement

December 3, 2013 JustinRoG Financial Independence, Lifestyle, Personal Finance

Thanksgiving is over and Christmas is less than a month away.  Here I am three months into my early retirement.  This is hard to explain, but it seems like I was working just last week.

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Early Retirement Interview with AOL Daily Finance

November 27, 2013 JustinRoG Awesome!, Financial Independence, Lifestyle, Personal Finance

A few weeks ago I received an email from Erin, a journalist who writes for AOL’s Daily Finance.  Erin, who also blogs at Broke Millennial, was working on a story about the plight of Millennials who

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Carnival of Money Turkey Day Edition

November 25, 2013 JustinRoG Awesome!, Financial Independence, Lifestyle, Personal Finance, Travel

This week I am hosting the Turkey Day Edition of the Carnival of Money.  The posts selected for inclusion in this week’s carnival are varied, however they all have “money” as the central theme.  Making

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Investment Management Using Asset Allocation Targets

November 23, 2013 JustinRoG Financial Independence, Investing, Personal Finance

I use my asset allocation as a tool to manage my current and future investments.  I always aim to have a fixed percentage of my investments in each asset class.  In my previous post, I

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Snapshot of Root of Good’s Diversification and Asset Allocation

November 17, 2013 JustinRoG Financial Independence, Investing, Personal Finance

I have been a little lazy on the investment front during my three months in early retirement. I haven’t bought or sold anything in my portfolio. Not that it really matters, since you shouldn’t do

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I Can Do It When I Try

November 9, 2013 JustinRoG Awesome!, Financial Independence, Lifestyle, Parenting

“I Can Do It When I Try”.  That sounds like a self help book’s trite advice on success. It is actually one of the choices I offered to my daughter a couple years ago when

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Join the Military to Retire Early?

November 6, 2013 JustinRoG Financial Independence, Lifestyle, Personal Finance

Today’s guest post is brought to you by Doug Nordman, author of “The Military Guide to Financial Independence and Retirement”. If you’re reading this blog then you’re thinking about financial independence and early retirement. You’re aware that two

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Developing A Retirement Budget

October 31, 2013 JustinRoG Awesome!, Financial Independence, Lifestyle, Personal Finance, Travel

The path to retiring early is straightforward.  Accumulate enough assets to fund all your expenses for the rest of your life.  Figuring out what is “enough” and then saving that amount can be challenging. Today

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Rethinking Retirement

October 21, 2013 JustinRoG Financial Independence, Lifestyle

(The following is a guest post by Nick at Pretired.org – another site dedicated to the art of financial independence)   Over at my site, Pretired.org, we talk a lot about “Pretirement” as a new

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