2024 Planning
Happy New Year! I hope the year of the dragon treats you well. I also hope our readers in Hokuriku are safe and doing okay and can get back to normal as quickly as possible. I know from personal experience how draining recovering from an earthquake can be. Take the time you need to adjust […]
2023 Planning
Goals for this year Every year we start things off here on the blog with a look ahead, both for the site and me personally. Here is last year’s post for comparison. 2022 was a year of changes. In 2023 I am going to build on those changes and try to have more by doing […]
2022 Planning
Goals for this year Every year we start things off here on the blog with a look ahead, both for the site and me personally. Here is last year’s post for comparison. Last year I gave myself a pass. We were still in peak pandemic, I was tired and run down, and I had a […]
Planning 3
Plan Harder Four years ago I wrote a couple of posts about planning (Planning, Planning 2). It was really interesting to go back and reread them. Let’s take another look at the questions and see what kind of progress we’ve made in that time. Two big changes: I started doing jiu-jitsu just over three years […]
2021 Planning
Goals for this year? Not even sure if I have goals for this year. Be kind to myself and others, maybe. 2020 was such a grind that I’m just hoping this year is less like that. Over the break I had two wonderful conversations, one with a colleague and one with my wife, about the […]
2020 Planning
New Year, New Decade, New Goals? Not really. More like new year, new decade, same goals. Every year we start things off here on the blog with a look ahead, both for the site and me personally. Here is last year’s post for comparison. So what is in store for RetireJapan in 2020? More of […]
2019 Planning
Happy New Year! I don’t want to boar you, so let’s cut to the chase 😉 Every year we do a look ahead at the new year, for both the site and me personally. You can see last year’s post here. So what does 2019 hold for RetireJapan? In a nutshell, more of the same. […]
Planning 2
If you fail to plan, you plan to fail Last week I wrote about making plans. I also said I would write my answers this week. So here they are 🙂 Where do you want to live in the future? I’m not sure. Rather, there isn’t anywhere I particularly want to live. I think a […]
Planning
Almost never works, but incredibly valuable nevertheless For the last couple of years I have been teaching personal finance in my English classes at university. You could say that this is me unfairly imposing my interests on the students, kind of like the teachers that would tell us about their camping holiday in secondary school. […]
The Purpose of Financial Planning
Is to win, of course I’ll be doing a short workshop on personal finance on Sunday, at the Pan-SIG Conference in Kobe. As part of getting ready for that, I have been doing a lot of thinking, trying to tease out the basic principles. I came up with the following: The purpose of financial planning is […]