One Million and Beyond

Week in Review (August 3-9)

By Matt - Wednesday, August 12th, 2009

This past couple weeks has been incredibly busy as you can tell by my lack of posting. Our close friends got married this past weekend which meant that on top of the usual running around we had a lot more to do in the weeks leading up to the wedding day. I wasn’t part of the wedding party but my wife was which translated into my helping her out so she could put some time towards the wedding. The net result was that we ended up spending a lot more than we would have liked but it was for a great cause and our friends wedding went off without a hitch. Now that this event is behind us I would like get back to the usual routine, hopefully at a slightly slower pace.

I have to say that the wedding did make me reflect on life in general; we put so much effort into things that don’t matter yet not nearly enough time into the things that do. I thought about my own wedding a couple years back and realized that I myself am a fairly laid back person but even I get caught up in the craziness of it all. I also thought more about the rat race that I am a member of and how much I would enjoy not being entirely reliant on the ‘daily grind’ to pay for everything.

The whole concept of the rat race is tied to the fact that we need to have the constant flow of money in order to keep everything moving along, in order to pay our debts, pay our mortgage and essentially pay to live. I’ve also been re-reading Timothy Ferriss’ book The 4-Hour Work Week which has rekindled my desire to not be forced to work. Although I’ve never reviewed the book or gone through the exercises in detail it is one the books that has made the biggest impact on me in recent years. I think it might be time to investigate what Tim accomplished and wrote about in a bit more detail.

Overall this weekend was just a small reminder of why its important for me to keep at the finances and debt reduction and that although I am still not 100% clear on what I want other than being in the rat race I do know I don’t want to be in it anymore.

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