I wanted to create a new series to help you DIY your own money mentoring process with these Peer Mentoring Tools. It all starts with good questions. Most great mentors are great because 1. They “show up” in a meaningful way (focused on your goals, your situation, to help encourage you to make progress). And […]
20 months ago we stepped away from the 9-5. I knew we would be gone for at least a year, but our life changed in that year because we changed. Honestly, most of the change I never saw coming. If you have ever considered taking a career break, mini-retirement or sabbatical, to pursue other goals […]
15 years ago when Mr. Montana and I first married, we struggled to figure out money. How do we pay off the debt? What do we spend money on? Do we give money away even though we are broke and in debt? And a big one, especially when we were in debt and the first […]
Summer marches on and so does our reading party! Next up is a classic already. The Power of Habit, by Charles Duhigg, was an instant hit. Rightfully so. He did the heavy work and digging to figure out exactly how and why we form habits, how to change habits and how organizations and society can […]
June was just about everything I love about this work optional life. A big part of the reason we still haven’t taken a traditional 9-5 job, is that we love the flexibility. Being able to do exactly what we really need to do when we need it. All our plans for June were turned upside […]
I wanted to create a new series to help you DIY your own money mentoring process with these Mentoring Tools. It all starts with good questions. Most great mentors are great because 1. They “show up” in a meaningful way (focused on your goals, your situation, to help encourage you to make progress). And 2. […]
If a person was able to adopt uncles, I would adopt Jeff Yeager as mine. And I would be the perfect niece. Laughing at all his jokes, admiring his over the top frugality, and proudly displaying post cards from his latest bike trip on my fridge. I’m almost positive I’m richer for reading his books. […]
I’ve been trying to unplug more this week at the beach. So instead of curling up in bed and watching Netflix for an hour before bed, I headed out for a walk down the beach. On the Washington coast the dense forest pushes right up against the ocean. There was nice path through the towering […]
Growing up, I loved listening to Paul Harvey’s, The Rest of the Story. He has an amazing gift for taking a great story, then finding the bigger story behind the headline. We paid cash for our first home. But this is the rest of the story. Because after 10 years of pinching pennies it was one […]
I read Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less by Greg Mckeown. And when I finished the last page, I started at the beginning again and read it one more time. I let that sink in for a month. And then read it again. More highlighting. More notes. I wrote things down on note cards and […]
