Happy new year to all my Freedom Seekers. Hope you all enjoyed the holiday season, and are looking forward to a whole new chapter as we start this decade! To kick things off, I’ve been focussing on my 2020 mantra. I’m generally not one for resolutions – but I do…
There’s a lovely quote by C.S. Lewis that references how in the day to day it often feels like nothing changes, but when you look back, you realize that everything is different. As the year comes to a close, and I’ve been reflecting on the decade, it’s impossible not to recognize…
There is no time quite like the holidays to feel over taxed, overwhelmed, and over stressed. But how can you choose how you spend your time, when it feels like you are caught in an endless cycle of what you “have to do”? I caught myself doing this several…
I won’t lie. I was super disappointed when the specialist delivered the news to us that more testing needed to be done, and that this whole health scare wasn’t over. But as Mike subsequently pointed out, just being told it was nothing to worry about probably wouldn’t have been all…
A few months ago I wrote a post called Imagine You Are Dying. I wrote that post because I had been imagining exactly that. Due to a health scare, and despite my initial best efforts to avoid it, I had been thinking a lot about what would happen if I…
Hey Freedom Seekers! First and foremost, it’s Remembrance Day here in Canada, so let’s please take a moment to remember all those who fought for the very freedom’s we all now enjoy. I am grateful everyday to live in this unbelievably beautiful country we call home, and to enjoy the…
Since I started the Finding Freedom journey, I haven’t written any posts about teaching our kid’s about finance. It’s now week 14 of the FF journey. That’s a long time to go without talking about some of the strategies we’ve been employing to give our kid’s the skills they need…
About 4 months ago a friend of ours told us about a job opening that he’d heard about. It was a government position. But an interesting one. It was in a new, small, and rapidly evolving branch. The type of job where you might actual be able to make a…
I don’t watch the news. Ever. In fact, I haven’t watched the news in about 6 years. And I’m a much happier person for it. But the reaction I get from people when I tell them I don’t watch the news is wide ranging. Often its surprise, occasionally it’s an…
This week we are going to continue down the path of my mildly morbid thoughts on dying. Except this time – we are going to be dead. If you’ve followed the blog for any length of time, you’ll be well aware that I have a strong affinity for clearing clutter.…