How Starting a Blog Changed Every Aspect of My Life
How one decision helped me create ultimate freedom
A few years ago, I was a corporate hostage.
Let’s rewind to 2015.
Like so many millennials, I was miserable at my 9–5 job, and I spent every moment dreaming about a better life.
But instead of just dreaming, I relentlessly consumed information about money and personal finance because I wanted to learn how to retire early.
I became obsessed with figuring a way to avoid the rat race and enjoy the best years of my life. And I loved sharing what I was learning with anyone who would listen.
During work happy hours, I would talk to people about Roth IRA’s, index funds, stock options, and credit scores. I wanted to help everyone I could.
One of those conversations was with two of my directors on a President’s Club trip in Cancun. After about ten cocktails, I started spewing out financial jargon, and they were impressed.
I still remember one of them saying, “You should do something with all this knowledge; maybe you should start a blog.”
This conversation was at the end of 2015; the seed had been planted.
