Sylvie
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Sylvie
“The secret of life is to waste time in ways that you like.“
Here’s what has worked for me over the years to stave off boreout :
- Leaning into digressions: Passion projects (like this very one) and side hustles, whether they’re directly related to your work or completely unrelated, create the crackle of energy that boreout can stamp out; rather than be afraid of these things taking time away from your team’s
The OffBeat #60: Boreout vs. Burnout
"I was waiting for something extraordinary to happen, but as the years wasted on, nothing ever did unless I caused it.”
—Charles Bukowski
"To be an artist, you don't have to compose music or paint or be in the movies or write books. It's just a way of living. It has to do with paying attention, remembering, filtering what you see and answering back, participating in life."
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An approach where the goal is not an outcome with a distinct finish line. Instead, a goal could inform the process or system I’d need to commit to that would typically precede reaching my goal. So, instead of having the goal to save $10,000, I’d commit to saving 20 percent of every inflow... indefinitely. And when I did this, I tended to exceed wha... See more
The Key to Reaching Your Goals Is to Stop Fixating On Them | Gusto
Kurt Cobain once reminisced that if he could do it all over again, he would go back to those moments before they became big. When they were touring in a van and they could feel things starting to happen for them. That was the most gratifying moment in his memory. If he had his choice, they would have stayed there forever.
Believe him. Celebrate smal... See more
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Yancey Strickler • Small is more meaningful than big
Save early and late. For many families, surging on TSP/401(k)/IRA before peak child experiential years then reducing retirement savings to boost memory-making expenditures during the Kid-span followed by maximizing saving after the Kid-span is a great way to harness the power of compounding.
Think about it this way—if you’re already at or above glidepath for your retirement needs, will spending $10K more on vacations for 10 years instead of investing $10K more in the TSP knock you off course? We can math that out, but for diligent savers it probably won’t.
Prioritize Roth IRA and taxable accounts.
In retirement, go where the money is: work. Few of us want to age in place at our workplace, but stepping out of the workforce early isn’t inherently virtuous either. What if the bill-payer for the Kid-Span is working a few extra years?
Prioritize. It’s probably going to be a brutal few years in the housing market. The days of cheap mortgages to buy reasonably priced McMansions may be in the rearview mirror for now. Can you tolerate less house to have a better Kid-span?
Discipline your dollars.