The secret to loving your life is defining your “enough”

The pursuit of status and approval is a completely natural part of life and isn’t going anywhere, but the mirror effect highlights how using material wealth to do it leads to a never-ending cycle of comparison and competition. If you want to play the game and still have some money left over, you have to start with defining your “enough”.

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Is F.I.R.E really…a movement?

Kiersten and Julien surrounded in flames, with the text asking Is F.I.R.E. really a movement

The FIRE community has similar levels of untapped potential, but we’ve spent the last few years arguing about what the acronym means and whether the FI or the RE matters more. This obsession with making either side a permanent state instead of a continuous journey stops us from seeing all the possibilities that lie in between. It also obscures the most important part: that we’re part of a movement.

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