Don’t ever let anyone dull your sparkle
Don’t ever let anyone dull your sparkle
To 10,000 Waves; A Failed Experiment. Part One.
The pursuit to calming the F$#& down continues........... Hi Folks, long time, no write! Ha! Well, here's an updated post I think you'll have at least a few nuggets to chew on. Malcolm Gladwell popularized the 10,000 practice rule. If you practice something for...
1 Year F.I.R.E. Anniversary
"Ain't Nothin' Changed But My Limp" - Ma$e Whew! It has been one full year since I took the F.I.R.E. plunge. And what a year it has been! Who knew that when I was making the biggest change in my adult life that there would be a Global pandemic that would affect all of...
True Grit, But With Your Finances
"....as much as talent counts, effort counts twice" --- Angela Duckworth Grit, we all have it. Sitting for national exam after exam, scoring high on our admission exams for professional school. Delayed gratification is our middle name, we eat it for...
Plot Twist…………………………
Just recently my neighbors added a water pump for spill-over and it happens to be near my bedroom. I can hear the gentle running water when I open my windows, it’s so soothing. And wait a minute; it’s in the EXACT spot where I wanted to add a waterfall? Wow (insert...
Too Much of a Good Thing…….
When your future steals your present. My whole life has been leaping from one goal to the next. As far back as I can remember, I always had goals. Later in life after practicing for a while, academic and career goals shifted to financial goals. But goals...
A $ Paradigm Shift
My Financial Independence Evolution When I read The Broke Diaries, it was like I was reading my financial autobiography in medical school. That was me… in my version of my broke diary; negotiating with the dry-cleaner to split my bill so that I could only pay...
Make Your Own Avocado Toast
Concrete measures you can take RIGHT NOW to float to Financial Independence When I’m asked about finances from busy health care professionals, especially the younger ones who’ve recently finished training and are now practicing at my hospital, I get one or two...
The End is Nigh; My “Deuces Out” Play List
If you have decided to walk away from medicine or another high-stressed health-care position, you need a playlist. When the months turned into weeks and those weeks turned into days before my last day, I felt like I was in Purgatory. Having to go to work...
5 Stages of Grief
Leaving Medicine for good We are never ever ever ever ever getting back together (in my Taylor Swift singing voice). Yup, I was breaking up with medicine and it was about time. This was alarming to most of the people in my life, as I had only practiced a...
Don’t Reinvent the Wheel and Other Mottos….
Nod your head “Yes” if you’ve ever said this to a patient, a student or your colleague. “KIS- keep it simple, or “the simple answer is the best answer”, and my favorite “don’t reinvent the wheel”. I adopted K.I.S. a while back. It was my first year...