The Happiest Teacher

If you are struggling to start a meditation practice, guided meditations can be a great pathway forward! Here is my breakdown on why I started using Guided ...

"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...

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...

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Obesity and Debt are incredibly closely related. I realized this when I looked at my fellow SimplyFI board members and noticed that they were all thin and h...

A few weeks ago I was contacted by the good people over at Pocketsmith (Affiliate Link).  They asked me to check out their product, as they knew that I’m a b...

It started, as most great things do, with all-you-can-eat Chinese Hot Pot.  A friend ordered fresh tofu to put in the pot, and as it was unlimited, I was hap...

March has come and gone. I set out to test myself, pit myself against the quiet of my own sobriety, and see how it felt to be a teetotaler. You know what?...

These days, it seems like half my Facebook feed is about Marie Kondo and her Netflix show, where she helps people tidy up their houses by getting rid of anyt...

March can be a lethal month, just ask Julius Caesar, who did not properly beware its Ides. Death has been on my mind a lot, since the passing of my friend o...

If you want your life to go in a new direction, you have to change what you do.  This is not my original idea, it's been said by many people over the years, ...

This is the time for resolutions, plans, and, for the vast majority of us, having those dreams fade away as we get swept along in the current of our every da...

For most people, their two biggest expenses are their car and their house.  This makes sense, as they are two of the largest single purchases you can make, a...

About a month ago, I was contacted by two reporters from "The National" which is the biggest English Daily Newspaper here in the UAE. They had seen my post ...

A month has come and gone. The experiment to see how much money I could save by not going out to eat (only 5 times all month) or ordering in (at ALL!) has ...

Teachers get stressed out. A LOT. Hardly a day goes by when I don't see a teacher scrambling, hair flying out in all directions, eyes red from lack of sleep...

How much money can I save by not ordering delivery food? How much can YOU save? Let's use the month of May to put forward an experiment: how much can I sav...

For a long time, as an investor, I would look at my portfolio too much. How much you ask? Like keep a tab open on my Ameritrade for the whole time the market...

Should we help those in our communities get their financial houses in order? Is it worth our efforts to create networks that can help our peers have a bright...

The most common question I get from teachers back in their home country when they're frustrated and want to escape. Here I tell you how and give some good r...