The Happiest Teacher

Mindfulness is not just a buzzword. Once we understand that our spending comes down to emotional desires, we can use mindfulness to control those impulses a...

Just two weeks after I graduated university, at the ripe old age of 21, I moved to Thailand to teach English.  I had a blast.   My job was pretty easy, I had...

I'm a bit of a number geek.  Graphs and spreadsheets about my finances are fun for me.  I parse data and draw conclusions to pass the time.  I'm suuuper fun ...

Self discipline is hard.  To constantly deny yourself the things that you immediately want is a process that wears you down and usually defeats all but the m...

"The unexamined life is  not worth living."  A sentence attributed to Socrates, and one that many find controversial.  There are certainly plenty of people o...

2019 will go down in the record books as one of the most momentous years in my life. I don't say that lightly. I cannot remember a year I went through so m...

Odds are, if you're reading this, you're an expat.  The UAE is made up almost entirely of people with passports from other countries, and that can make deali...

Having money can be great.  Just look at people on a yacht!  Here in the UAE we see people who look like they have tons of money all the time.  I teach their...

Before I moved out of my one bedroom serviced apartment and into my room in a shared villa, I nearly had a panic attack.  My eyes were permanently widened, m...

Budgeting doesn't work for everyone.  For a lot of people, budgeting brings up images of spreadsheets, feelings of denial, and connotations of failed discipl...

One of the most common questions I hear from people first learning about Financial Independence is, "When do I know that I have enough money to retire?"  And...

They are money for emergencies.  Yes, you need one.  See, that was easy! But wait, if it’s that cut and dried, why do they cause so much controversy in the h...

For International teachers, this is what I call "tutoring season."  The first assignments are starting to be graded, and parents are starting to panic.  New ...

Who is making you feel good about yourself just so they can make a buck off you? How can that hurt our finances, trash our health, and even kill us? Click HE...

Lately I've felt frustrated by social expectations to be "manly" in many areas of my life. Frankly, many sides of masculinity are plain stupid and destructi...

House Hacking is taking the world by storm.  I do it, and my two friends who retired in their 30's also do it as well.  House Hacking is an incredibly powerf...

Last year, I determined that I wanted to invest in Real Estate, but that buying physical real estate was not feasible due to being far away and lacking the c...

The results are in, August has ended, and the data have been parsed. Here are the key takeaways from the data. I earned $72,361 from all sources. This incl...

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One of my earlier memories is when I was around 7 years old, and my parents realized I was hoarding money in my room that I had received from allowances and ...