The Happiest Teacher

“He who dies with the most toys, wins.”  This sometimes seems like it could be the slogan for the UAE.  Maybe it’s the booming Rolls Royc...

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

"The unexamined life is  not worth living."  A sentence attributed to Socrates, and one that many find controversial.  There are certainl...

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 ...

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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...

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 th...

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 ...

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 teetotal...

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...

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 pa...

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 peo...

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 cur...

For most people, their two biggest expenses are their car and their house.  This makes sense, as they are two of the largest single purch...

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

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 orderin...

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 re...

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...

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 w...

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...