No, that was not my last summer of vacation!

Hi RIP friends, good friends are always a source of inspiration. I was chatting with my bloggers friends Emma & Robert White (whatlifecouldbe) and Oli (frugalisten), discussing issues like the next FIWE and few personal updates. …And then I’ve been enlightened by a clear memory of when I had first glance of

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A book about Financial Independence (in German) featuring… me!

Hi RIP’s friends, few months ago I’ve been contacted by Gisela Enders (klunkerchen.wordpress.com) for an interview about my Financial Independence journey. She said “I’m writing a book about FI and I’d like to share your story”. Wow, will my words be printed on an actual book? A paper one? One I could brag

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Tools Of Titans book review part 0 – Habits

Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise. Benjamin Franklin Hi RIP friends, Few weeks ago I’ve told you that I started waking up early, thanks to several input signals last of which was reading first pages of Tools of Titans by Tim Ferriss.

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January 2017 Financial Update

Hi RIP voyeurs, January 2017 is gone. It’s been freezing cold here in Switzerland with temperatures below zero all the time. Anyway, new year new spreadsheets! 2016 monthly reports have been very long full of boring details. I want to simplify from now on. The main NW spreadsheet for 2017 has

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A Tale of a small Failure and a big Success

Hi RIP readers, Today I want to tell you 2 stories. One of them is a story of incredible success and the other one is a story of a miserable failure. Let’s start with the failure. Yes, you guessed right, the failure story is mine, 100%. Wait, no, it’s not that I gave up

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My Investor Policy Statement

Hi RIP friends, Facilitated by some recent extra time purchases, as promised to myself (and publicly committed), I’ve finally allocated time last weekend to redact my IPS. What’s an IPS? IPS stays for Investor Policy Statement, essentially an investing guideline you define for yourself that helps keeping you on path when situations may

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Early to bed and early to rise…

Hi RIP friends, Let’s steal half of the famous Benjamin Franklin’s quote for today’s post. Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise. (Benjamin Franklin) The second half is reserved for for Tim Ferriss’ Tools of Titans book review, which will take some time. Tim, seriously,

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Guest Post on WhatLifeCouldBe

Hi RIP friends, One of the goals of this blog – as stated in the About Me page – is to meet like minded people along my journey to FIRE. How to do that? Easy: join forums, communities, social networks, physical meet-ups, read other blogs… Simple to say, hard to

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How to Fix your Financial Problems

Hi RIP friends, Welcome to yet another post about “basics financial tactics” on the internet. I’d like to show my suggested strategy to face and solve your financial problems, trying to offer my unique point of view. First of all, what kind of financial problems do people have? Given that everyone has their own individual

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December 2016 Financial Update

Hi RIP voyeurs, December 2016 is gone. Well, the whole 2016 is gone. What a year! Half of the singer/actors died, terrorism and wars are everywhere and populism is slowly destroying the human species. Sorry, I can’t help but share the cutest image ever, as a sign of hope for

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