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The Sunday Best is a collection of a handful of posts I share with you each week. With so many informative and inspirational writers out there, I have no trouble coming up with a number of worthwhile reads each week.
Most posts will be from recent weeks, written by physicians, and related to personal finance, but expect to find a post or two that are lacking some or all of these elements.
Presenting this week’s Sunday Best:
Don’t be a Yes Man. Let radiologist The Happy Philosopher teach you The Power of No.
I hope Joe Udo @ Retireby40 is preaching to the choir here, but he couldn’t be more right. Smoking is a nasty, stinky, deadly, and addictive habit. Just Say No, because Smoking Will Kill Your Retirement.
In an oldie but goodie, Mr. Money Mustache discusses a subject I touched on in Thursday’s post. Get his take on housing in Rent vs. Buy: If You Have to Ask, You Should Probably Rent.
I’ve been something of a money hoarder for most of my working career. It was only recently that I realized what I could buy with it — freedom! Dr. Mo @ Urgent Care Career has hoarded enough money to declare financial independence a couple years before I did. He reflects On Hoarding Money, and what it means for his future.
In an excellent and surprising analysis, early retiree Mr. Firestation crunches some numbers to answer the following questions: What Does 10 Years Of Early Retirement Cost? Can You Really Do It? Spoiler alert: Yes, you can.
On Tuesday, I wrote about an amazing place in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. A fellow physician @ DocTravels chronicled his vacation in one of the more beautiful spots in Michigan’s Lower Peninsula, visiting Glen Arbor, MI and Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakefront Area.
I hope you’re all having a spectacular weekend. I’ve got my first full week off this summer, and we’re off to a good start.
I am one proud papa as my 5-year old won his age bracket in his first race yesterday, a mile run, and my 7-year old was tops for 8 & under in the 6k, running with his mom as pacer / cheerleader.
I didn’t win Gold, but I got my first bit of exercise since my Tough Mudder injuries, and brought home Bronze while just making my goal of sub 8-minute miles in the 6k.
Later that day, I attended the annual investors’ meeting & dinner at a microbrewery that is 4% mine. Sales and production are boiling over, so to speak.
The rest of the week will be filled with visiting family & friends, boating, tent camping, brewery stops, and perhaps another visit to Lakenenland.
Have a great week!
-Physician on FIRE
5 thoughts on “The Sunday Best (8/7/2016)”
Well done to your kids and you. I made it to the top of Squaw and back down on Saturday. But, my pace was a bit (no a lot) slower than I had hoped. I did make two wrong turns, though. One involved hiking about 25-yards up the mtn off trail when I missed the trail I needed. I was moving so slow, my Run tracker paused. The second wrong turn took me across a shale field which felt really sketchy a couple of times as I traversed it. I will be doing lots of hill work over the next 6 weeks or so. Hopefully, I can better my hill climbing legs.
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Thanks for including us, and congrats on the races! Sounds like a family of runners. ?
Thanks for curating and introducing us to new blogs. There are some true gems in here.
Congratulations to your children. There is no better reflection on our success of parents than the accomplishments of our children.
Thanks!
I always enjoy the Sunday best.