Last March while we were traveling home in our RV from our snow birding trip to Mesa, Arizona, I turned sixty. On our way to Southern California to meet some friends, we stopped at a bakery to pick up a cake. We enjoyed celebrating my birthday that evening with our friends, but it didn’t set … Read more
A misconception is running around the financial world, that great sacrifice and delayed gratification is required to reach financial independence. This is simply not true. The reason so many feel becoming financially independent is a sacrifice, is the misguided notion that spending anything less than all you earn is somehow a great sacrifice. If I … Read more
(Please join myself and 20+ other doctors this weekend at the Physician Real Estate Investor Network Virtual Conference Jan 21-23. ) Last week I was putting the finishing touches on a lecture I will be doing at the White Coat Investor’s February 9-12 Conference on Physician Wellness and Financial Literacy. The topic: Spending time with your family … Read more
People are surprised when they learn we have maintained a debt free household for the last twenty years. For many, they realize for the first time, that being debt free is possible. Others think they could never become debt free as their total debt seems overwhelming. When we first heard the concept of living debt … Read more
Each week I run into a few articles that I feel are especially valuable. Every Monday I would like to share some of the best with you, my readers. I hope you find them helpful. This week’s favorites include eight reasons why renting isn’t throwing away money, one in five millennials think they can never … Read more
(Don’t miss my two lectures on Debtabetic Neuropathy and Retiring Through Real Estate at the White Coat Investor’s Physician Wellness and Financial Literacy Conference the first week of March. Get your tickets now. This is one of the least expensive CME options you will find, and you won’t even have to leave your home.) Each … Read more
When my wife and I moved to Southern Oregon to start my career in as a surgeon, we had not even thought about owning a motorhome. My partners were the inciting factor that lead to the purchase. They were old school doctors who thought each doctor should always cover their own patients on the weekend … Read more
Every week I run into a few articles that I feel are especially valuable, so each Monday I plan to share some of the best with you, my readers. I hope you find them helpful. This week’s favorites include a family medicine doc who paid off more than $500,000 of debt, the juggling act between … Read more
Every week I run into a few articles that I feel are especially valuable, so each Monday I plan to share some of the best with you, my readers. I hope you find them helpful. This week’s favorites include how lifestyle modifications can help with burnout, the root causes of burnout, even radiologists burnout (45%), … Read more
Keith and I, Spartans. While my wife and I were on a recent vacation to Big Bear Lake in California, we rented the movie “Saving Mr. Banks.” It is about Walt Disney’s struggle to make the movie “Mary Poppins.” For the first time, I realized that movie was all about saving the father, Mr. Banks, … Read more
