Retirement – Remember To Water https://www.remembertowater.com Growing Your Personal Finances Tue, 15 Oct 2019 10:53:44 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.7.14 https://i1.wp.com/www.remembertowater.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/cropped-site-icon_rtw-logo-color_512.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Retirement – Remember To Water https://www.remembertowater.com 32 32 105182200 Do You Choose Money or Happiness https://www.remembertowater.com/do-you-choose-money-or-happiness/ https://www.remembertowater.com/do-you-choose-money-or-happiness/#comments Tue, 15 Oct 2019 10:53:43 +0000 https://www.remembertowater.com/?p=246944 To Money or to Happiness – that is the question. For most people that I know and meet, they would rate their general life happiness – how much they enjoy life – at around 60 to 80%. This is assuming they were being realistic, I do know some would would say 100%, but I have my doubts. However when ask people how they would rate their financial happiness, the answer is often closer to the 25-50% range. Consistently more than half worry more bout finances than general happiness – life, kids, work, movies, dinners out, leisure time etc. When I...

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]]> https://www.remembertowater.com/do-you-choose-money-or-happiness/feed/ 3 246944 How Much Is Enough For Early Retirement? https://www.remembertowater.com/much-enough-early-retirement/ https://www.remembertowater.com/much-enough-early-retirement/#comments Sat, 31 Dec 2016 12:51:15 +0000 https://www.remembertowater.com/?p=246619 A little while ago Len (from Financial Farmers – go check them out) commented on my post How We Made Our First Million Accidentally. He asked about financial freedom, not having to work, and early retirement. In my reply I talked about maintaining principal, inflation and a bunch of variables. We both had similar goals (although 40 seems a little to soon for me), but had very different capital requirements ($3+ million vs $1.25 million). So I wanted to redo some of my calculations, and was also questioning some of my assumptions. Needless to say, I jumped straight to Excel and put in...

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