If you're new here, this blog will give you the tools to become financially independent in 5 years on a median salary. The wiki page gives a good summary of the principles of the strategy. The key to success is to run your personal finances much like a business, thinking about assets and inventory and focusing on efficiency and value for money. Not just any business but a business that's flexible, agile, and adaptable. Conversely most consumers run their personal finances like an inflexible money-losing anti-business always in danger of losing their jobs.
Here's almost a thousand online journals from people, who are following the ERE strategy tailored to their particular situation (age, children, location, education, goals, ...). Increasing their savings from the usual 5-15% of their income to tens of thousands of dollars each year or typically 40-80% of their income, many accumulate six-figure net-worths within a few years.
Since everybody's situation is different (age, education, location, children, goals, ...) I suggest only spending a brief moment on this blog, which can be thought of as my personal journal, before looking for the crowd's wisdom for your particular situation in the forum journals.
If you enjoy the blog, also consider the book which is much better organized and more complete. You can read the first chapter for free, listen to the preamble, or see the reviews (1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9, A,B,C,D,E,F,G,H,I,J,K,L,M,N,O,P,Q,R,S,T,U,V,W,Z). Subscribe to the blog via email or RSS. Get updates on the facebook page, join the forums, and look for tactics on the ERE wiki. Here's a list of all the ERE blog posts.
I have had a couple of requests for a an ERE oriented workshop or a talk. I know that some of my colleagues give talks at libraries or meet at cafes, etc. for that purpose. I also know that many prefer a more hands-on approach or are motivated by meeting people face to face. Does this have general interest?
- Would you be interested in attending a workshop?
- Could you actually make it to a workshop? (San Francisco area). If not, could you arrange it somewhere else and gather enough people to pay my ticket?
- Would you be willing to pay anything for it? If so, give a non-binding figure of dollars/day, just so I can get an idea. [Figure that the amount of preparatory work I am going to put into it has some correlation with the payout. Obviously I can wing it for free 😉 ]
- Would you go for the SWAG (stuff we all get) e.g. an exclusive ebook or something like that?
- How about simple meet ups, e.g. no talk but simply Q&A or “networking”?
Let me know in the comments.
Just to be clear I am currently working on a “real” book. The regular procedure for non-fiction is to submit a proposal and a few sample chapters, but I very quickly realized that this was not going to work—the current version looks absolutely nothing like the initial disposition. Hence, I took on the process of writing the entire book before submitting it.
eBooks (or other books) would follow later. Right now I have my [creative] hands too full with the book and the blog.
Originally posted 2010-02-09 14:34:25.
