About the Authors
Foreword - JL Collins
Introduction
Part One
Why FIRE? – What It Takes
Chapter 1 - A Short History
Thinking outside the cubicle
Making the most of a difficult situation
How We Began Investing, and Another Change to Manage
Making the Most of Opportunities All Along the Way
Chapter 2 - Why We Retired Early
Taking Another Road – The Surprising Pressure of Taxes
Chapter 3 - Is Early Retirement for You?
Opening horizons
If You Want to Move
Forward into FIRE - Important Questions to Ask Yourself
Chapter 4 - How to Choose Your Future
Dream
Killers
The Motivators
Profitability Begins Within – Try These Suggestions
Chapter 5 – There Are Two Paths to FIRE - Financially Independent Retire
Early
Physical
and measurable
Emotional
and immeasurable
Peer
pressure and status in society
There is
no speedy way to wade through
The New Retirement – Financial Independence
Take Action
Chapter 6 -
Creating a Lifestyle of Meaning within Your Retirement
Decision Time
The Future Impact of Your Retirement – Building Meaning within Your
Financially Independent Lifestyle
Financial
Independence: Going from Satisfaction to Satisfaction
Peer Pressure
Guilt
The Stigma of the Word “Retirement”
Chapter 7 - A Young Boy and His Dreams - A Personal Tale from Billy
Chapter 8 -
Hooked on Adventure - A Personal Tale from Akaisha
Chapter 9 - It's a Lifestyle Not a Vacation
Important
Points
What We Wanted to Achieve
The Greatest Lessons We Have Learned
Chapter 10 -
Having Flexibility in Your Retirement; An asset worth investing in
A “sure-fire” asset you can invest in
Various examples
Part Two
Housing and Food Costs – Why They Are Important
Chapter 11 - “Worry-Free” Housing
Value for Money Spent
Tax and Insurance Relief
How to Find an Active Adult Retirement Community
The Trouble with Transportation
Could You Become Car-Free?
Safety
Chapter 12 - Housing Adventures on the Road
A Month or Two at the
Beach, at a Fraction of the Cost – Traveling off Season
Visiting Family
More Housing on the
Road
Other Housing Options
Like the Sea?
Housing: Rent or Buy?
Reviewing Your Housing Options
Chapter 13 – Retirement Housing Options Compared
House sitting
Gen 2 Homes also known as Next Gen homes
Travel as a lifestyle
Snow
Birding
RVing
Chapter 14 - Our Food Secrets and How To's = Cost $aving$
Food Shopping - Buy on Sale, Stock Up
Breaking Down Our Own Meats
Dem Bones, Dem Bones
Have a Special Cooking Day
Food on The Road
Settling Down into Our Foreign Location
One Meal a Day
Chapter
15 - Tips on How
to Make the Most of Feasting Internationally (and stay on a budget)
Chapter
16 - Is Eating
Street Food Safe?
The
Basics
It’s Not Always the Food
Other Considerations
Chapter 17 - Travel and Transport
Transport Tips While
Traveling
Need to Rent a Car?
Part
Three
All
About Money
Chapter 18 - Where to Start? “When you get
out of debt you give yourself a raise.”
Save
and invest
Do
you dream of becoming a millionaire?
When to begin
What if you start later in life?
How to Create a Pension for the Average Joe - He's 65 years old and has as
little as $200K Savings
Do you need $2 million to retire?
The secret: Living within your means
Housing is THE most expensive category for you to manage
Transportation is the second highest category of expense
Taxes
Food, Dining and Entertainment
Summing it up
Chapter
19
- Financial Sustainability
The Cost of Spending
Investments = Financial freedom
5 Tools
for Retirement Planning
Ok…got it! Now What? Some basics
The
First Step
Chapter 20 - Track Spending
Setting up the Spreadsheet
A Closer Look
The 4% Rule -
What is it? How do I use it? Does it work?
But what if the market declines?
Links to spreadsheets
Money Management
Chapter 21 - How Much Is Work Costing You?
Chapter 22 - New Perspectives on Saving Some Money - What to Do?
The Best
Investment Move We Ever Made
Money,
Money, Money
Fast
Forward a Few Decades
“I Don’t Understand the Stock Market.”
The Relationship of Risk to Reward, and Safe to Guaranteed
Spread the Risk
Chapter 23 - How Much Is Enough?
How
Much Risk?
Do You Ever Have Enough Money? – What Does that Look Like to
You?
Retirement
Withdrawal Calculator
Why We Took Social Security at Age 62
Next let’s look at some numbers.
The Fear of Market Downturns
Using history as a guide
Noise,
corrections and bears
How
to calm your nerves to prevent panic selling
No
Fear
Our
Investment Style; Answering the Critics - Most of Whom Are Still Working
Be
an Investor Not a Trader
Do
Not Chase Returns
Take
the Money and Run
Have
a Spending Plan for Retirement
Simplifying Investing for Financial Independence
Financial
Independence for the Young Crow
Chapter 24 - The 4% Withdrawal
Let
me explain
But what
about inflation?
Inflation
in Retirement
How
can you protect yourselves in retirement?
Which
stocks to buy?
Chapter 25 - Preparing Your Portfolio for Retirement? - Income Is So
Yesterday
Our approach 3 decades ago
500 solid, well-managed companies
Sell as needed
Working smart not hard
Buying an Annuity versus Equities
My perspective and why
My suggestion
Expat Living and Dollar Fluctuations - How to deal with Dollar Fluctuations
when you live outside the US
What
if you don’t believe in the future, should you invest?
Living Without a Paycheck in
Retirement
The transition to being “paycheck-free”
The
Millionaire Mind
Chapter 26 - The Plan
Chapter 27 - How do YOU want to Spend Your Money? - An option
to consider for assisted living
Long term care insurance?
Time for reflection
Opening up the options
Practical, motivational,
inspirational. If we can do it,
YOU CAN TOO!
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Chapter 28 - Affording Our Lifestyle
Travel
Rent
Other monthly expenses
Chapter 29 - How to Double Your Social Security Check
You can
do better
While you
wait for your retirement date
Why a
dividend fund
Part Four
Styles of Travel, Living Abroad
Chapter
30
- The Benefits of Globe Trotting
How Travel
Prepares You for the Unexpected
Chapter 31 - The RV Lifestyle
Stories
of The Road
Stretching
Value
Chapter 32 - Living Abroad
Retirees
without borders
Distinctive Differences
in Cultures
Medical Care
Overseas?
Chapter 33 -
A Quick Cultural Guide for Expats
Chapter 34 -
How to Choose a Retirement Location
Narrowing
your search
General hassles of everyday living
Living
with ease
Is Your
Retirement Under-funded?
Getting a Visa
What Does it Really Take to Move Overseas?
More commentary on this topic
Chapter 35 - Retirement Dream, or Nightmare? Purchasing a home overseas
More on Housing - My Case for Financial Assets
New
Chapter 36 - A Lifestyle on the Move
Settling
Down?
Moderating
Transport Costs while on the Road
Basics; Before
We Leave
Financial
Issues
Locating a Place
to Stay
Upon Arrival -
Lodging
Hosteling
Daily Living
Exercising While
on The Road
Need Medical
Assistance?
Managing Cost
Per Day Figure While Traveling – Geographical Arbitrage
Keeping Family
Ties Strong
Nuts and Bolts
What We Pack and
Why
Traveling Styles
Chapter 37 - Retirement through a New Perspective
Chapter 38 - 5 Money Saving Travel Tips
Chapter 39 - How to Make Traveling Easier for Yourself
Chapter 40 – Volunteering
Chapter 41 - Our Five Reasons to Retire Abroad
Part
Five
Medical and Health Care Options
Chapter 42 - Medical Care
Gaining
Perspective
Questioning
Pricing
Insight into
Bureaucratic Distractions
Champion Your
Own Cause
Care in a
foreign country by comparison
Additional
thoughts
Chapter 43 - Health Care Options
Medical Vacations: A Retiree Health-Care Solution?
Is
it safe?
Sounds good, but what’s the cost?
I
don’t wanna travel for medical care
More
Doctors take cash?
The Rise of Cash-Only
Doctors
Price Transparency
Chapter 44 - Receiving Medical Care in Chapala, Mexico
Medical care Stateside
Part
Six
Partners, Peers and Perspectives
Chapter 45 – Life Partners
How you can
smooth the course
Each of Us Must Find Balance
What to do?
Families
Working Together
Engaging
the Children
Are Your
Children Grown?
Chapter 46 - Peer Pressure
Being
Different Has Its Price
Smoothing
Out Changes in The Road of Friendship
Chapter 47 - Is It Work or Is It Passion?
Chapter 48 - Freedom
Making
Different Decisions
Claim Your Freedom Every Day!
Chapter 49 - Once You Retire, Opportunities Arrive
Retirement Is a Sizeable Change
Wherever
You Are, Take Advantage of Opportunities
Money Isn’t
What Makes You Rich
A Little
Spending Money
Chapter 50 - Are you afraid to FIRE?
Gaining Perspective
Courage in Everyday
Life
Chapter 51 – How to Fail at Early Retirement
Options, Choices, Opportunities
Eliminate your Stinkin’ Thinkin’
Having Children changes everything
Changing interest rates
That dang healthcare situation
Retired or dead?
Chapter 52 – We Do Not Know the Future
The
point
Fearing the
future
The Choice
Chapter 53 – There Is No Greater Virus than Fear
Fear
Optimism
A little
perspective
The world
challenges us
Chapter 54 – The Price of Security
Blazing a
new path
Today
Chapter 55 - There Are No Guarantees in Retirement
Reap reward from your self-reliance
Chapter 56 – How Do You Contribute to the World?
Chapter
57
– Approaching Twelve Thousand Days
In the
beginning
Overcoming challenges and moving into the future
Freedom was our incentive
Afterword
Practical, motivational,
inspirational. If we can do it,
YOU CAN TOO!
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