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Why Creativity and Money Don’t Mix… For Me

By Tanja Hester on June 1, 2016 • ( 120 Comments )

I recently had a realization that I now think has been influencing the entire direction of my life without me realizing it. And it’s completely related to our plans to retire early. Turns out I have always resisted mixing creativity and money — here’s why.

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The Unstructured Early Retirement Dress Rehearsal

By Tanja Hester on May 23, 2016 • ( 102 Comments )

Lately I’ve been trying this experiment where I treat weekends like mini early retirements, instead of like days to get a bunch of stuff done. I decided to take this one step farther to test the theory that we crave unstructured time in retirement. Come see what we learned!