The Monday Read
Health Reboot Take 7 Edition I am once again planning to make some lifestyle changes to work on my health. Long term readers will remember this movie from the last six times it showed 😉 Basically the last couple of years have not been good for my physical health, and the last couple of months […]
My Investment Allocation is All Wrong
Time for a rethink! Well, this is embarrassing. After fifteen years of investing and eight years of running RetireJapan, I have realised that some of my investments are not fit for purpose. Drat. How it started Until very recently I was pretty happy with my portfolio. We own a core of index funds, with a […]
The Monday Read
Extremely Busy Edition Really busy this month for some reason. It’s like the stars aligned in order to line up tasks I need to complete. Not complaining, mind you, most of it is interesting or necessary, and much of it is self-inflicted! Email newsletter I subscribe to a lot of email newsletters, but James Clear’s […]
Baseline Spending
Is this the most important number in personal finance? I was talking to a friend the other day about my plans for the rest of the year, and mentioned that my wife and I have a pretty low baseline spending number. He was surprised, but then I explained that our actual spending is much higher, […]
The Monday Read
Tsunami Warning Edition Well, that was exciting. Late Saturday night/early Sunday morning we got the tsunami alerts on our phones, and the sirens outside started up. The 3-11 tsunami actually reached our manshon building, but it was only a few centimeters high at that point (we are several kilometers from the coast). Fortunately there doesn’t […]
How to get to Financial Independence
Saving and Investing your Way to Financial Freedom Financial independence is all the rage these days: articles, blog posts, and videos on the topic abound. It’s an age-old dream, but one that seems increasingly in reach as more and more people commit to trying to get there. In last month’s progress report, I mentioned that […]
The Monday Read
Carefully Optimistic Edition Well, omicron is exploding in Japan, but I am cautiously optimistic this time. My guess is that we will see huge numbers of cases (and many times that number of undetected cases) but fewer hospitalizations and deaths. I am not expecting it to affect my wife’s business this time round. Fingers crossed […]
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 […]
The Monday Read
Year of the Tiger Edition Happy New Year! Can’t believe it’s 2021 already… 😉 What will year 3 of the pandemic have in store for us? Hopefully more tapering and fewer seismic shocks. I’ll be doing a planning post soon, but just quickly my primary goal for 2022 is better time management, and my secondary […]