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September / October 2017 Personal Goals & Review

Written by Adam on October 1, 2017. Updated January 8, 2023.
8 min read. Personal, Goals, Blog. 6 Comments

Every month I review how I did during my last month and plan out my focus for the next month. This is a follow-up to my previous post, August / September 2017 Personal Goals & Review. Since I do these goal posts monthly, you might want to read them all by checking out the goals category.

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Joy is a Skill, Remember to Practice It

Written by Adam on September 25, 2017. Updated January 8, 2023.
4 min read. Mindfulness, Minimalism, Blog. 9 Comments

A few years ago I read Marie Kondo’s The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up. This book has helped countless people help simplify their lives by focusing on what brings them joy. The book has a very simple premise (paraphrased):

Only keep things in your life that spark joy.

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Simplify Your Desktop with Bartender

Written by Adam on September 20, 2017. Updated January 8, 2023.
2 min read. Minimalism, Blog. 1 Comment

Recently, Cait Flanders has mentioned spending some time to clean up her digital footprint. This has been a good reminder for me to revisit this and evaluate areas that are and aren’t working in my digital life. I prioritize keeping a clean and minimal desktop interface. That feeling helps me feel more organized, even as further down the line things are less put together. Here are some of the top ways I keep this clean.

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How I Learned to be Less Critical of Others

Written by Adam on September 18, 2017. Updated January 8, 2023.
3 min read. Mindfulness, Blog. 1 Comment

I worry about being wrong. I worry about confidently writing about subjects, or acting on feedback only to realize that my underlying knowledge was wrong. Accepting that this is going to happen isn’t easy for me, but that acceptance leads to amazing things – both for myself and my view of others.

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How I Would (and Do) Invest $1 Million

Written by Adam on September 15, 2017. Updated January 8, 2023.
6 min read. Financial Independence, Investing, Blog, Canonical. 17 Comments

What would you do with $1 Million Dollars in order to live off it for the rest of your life? For that to work, you’d need to put your money to work for you in the form of investing it in some way. You could start a business, invest in real estate, invest in the stock – or just buy a bunch of lottery tickets. My preferred method of dealing with this amount of money that I use myself is one that requires the minimal amount of work.

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Why I Don’t Blog Anonymously

Written by Adam on September 13, 2017. Updated January 8, 2023.
2 min read. Minimalism, Blog, Canonical, Personal. 14 Comments

In the investment blogging world, there’s a trend of anonymous blogging. For many people, I can see how this makes complete sense. Women especially have it rough in the blogging world, as they tend to be stalked and harassed much more. For some, blogging anonymously might have impacts on their job, like Our Next Life. Others have their own reasons – based on their past, what they want to write about and what impact they hope to make.

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