What is your true hourly wage?
What is your true hourly wage? Think you know? It might be different than you think. Your hourly wage or your salary can be deceiving....
The Opportunity Cost of Owning a Car
In life, we face a handful of important decisions that can shape our lives for decades to come. Car ownership is one of those decisions we m
The Five Transitions to Financial Independence: Money Tree Podcast Interview
iTunes Spotifiy The Five Transitions to Financial Independence Guest post by Shane Dillon, Author of The Franklin Fi book...
The Personal Profit & Loss Statement
The Personal Profit and Loss Statement tracks one’s income and expenses to find whether the person is making a profit or a loss each...
Outside Magazine Interview
I caught up with Shane Dillon Gidcumb, a former winery executive and author of 'The Franklin Fi' book series who up and quit his job one...
The Path to Semi-Retirement
Semi-retirement is about breaking away from the rat race to do what you love. It is leaving behind the nine to five world of mindless...
YOU ARE A HUMAN CORPORATION
Your value is based on the skill set that makes your employer more profitable. You are a walking collection of assets and the more...
The Sleep Routine and Intermittent Fasting
Why are we told to eat three meals a day? Why are we told to get at least eight hours of sleep each night? Why are we told to wash our...
The Opportunity Cost of a Beer Gut
Behold! The beer gut. To some, it is an art form. It takes hours and weeks and years of laborious drinking to achieve optimal roundness...
Bicycle Across the Country
My first attempt at long-distance bicycle touring was cycling across the USA from Jacksonville, Florida to San Francisco. Coast to...
The Snooze Button Challenge
“WAH, WAH, WAH, WAH, WHAP!” Peter Drunkanother slaps the snooze button buying another ten minutes of sleep. “WAH, WAH, WAH, WAH, WHAP!”...
Accumulation of Memories
You’ve got your dinosaur helmet on, the sun is glistening off the sparkly streamers hanging off of your handlebar grips, and the street...
Slow Down
Come on, hurry up or we are going to be late! When was the last time those words put you in a good mood? Never! One day ends, as the next...
My Story
Do you know we have more neurons in our brain than there are stars in the Milky Way Galaxy? If that doesn’t blow your mind, think about...
The Beginner: How to open your first brokerage account
Are you confused by the stock market or afraid of the risk? Do you want to open a brokerage account, but do not know where to begin?...
The Benefits of a Morning Routine
I never fully understood the benefits of a morning routine, until I started my own. An easy way to get started is to wake up and...
Become Time Rich
What is the first thing that comes to your mind when you think of shiny and new? It kind of sounds like a question you might get on a...
Zero to Travel Interview
| iTunes | Spotify | Bending Time For Travel Have you ever thought about bending time for travel?...
Common Financial Mistakes to Avoid
It is our responsibility to learn from our mistakes, and also our duty to pass on the lessons to others.
Practice Confidence
As kids, it is in our nature to practice everything. Kids are open to every type of learning and creativity: Piano, baseball, ballet,...
The Power of Compound Interest
HOW TO TURN $100 A MONTH INTO $450,000 AT RETIREMENT: To save you the time of reading the article, I will go ahead tell you the secret of...
THE DEBT GAME
What chance do we have of being financially successful, if going to college means being in debt for the next twenty years?
The Last Study Tip You Will Ever Need
Why isn’t there a cheat code or a study tip to end the memorization involved in test taking? Why can’t learning be fun? The story I am...
Choose Happiness
People don’t work to gain wealth anymore. Many people find that they are working to pay off their accumulated debt. It’s tough out there,...
What is the meaning of life?
What is the meaning of life? Are we even meant to know the answer to this question? I don’t think so. Always questioning is what keeps...
Millennial Money Interview
Have you ever wanted to drastically change your life? Turn everything upside down, recreate yourself and live a life full of adventure....
Discipline | Every Step is Moving Me Forward
Why do people lack discipline? There is a tendency to waste away many hours of each day with mundane tasks that do not lead to...
The Benefits of Cycling to Work
I have been cycling to work for a year now. GASP! I know, I am so uncool. Glad you think so because I actually feel the exact opposite....
How to Write a Book in 60 Days
Would you believe that I wrote my first book in sixty days? Writing a book was always my dream, but I couldn’t seem to write more than...
Don't Be a Cellphone Face
Cellphones to Cyborgs. We have all become addicted to cellphones and one could argue that we are all quickly turning into cyborgs. A...
Kindness to Others
I’ve noticed from time to time that every once in a while the smallest thing will make me unhappy or quickly alter my good mood to pissed...
Pivot to Happiness
When you find yourself in a rut and having a hard time breaking out of your mundane routine, it is time to make a change. I’m not...
Slow Travel Germany
Remember the feeling of being a kid and how each day was an adventure? I thought I had lost that feeling until I discovered slow travel....
Geoarbitrage Spain
Geoarbitrage is an interesting concept, often closely related to the definition of lifestyle design. It basically means relocating in...
The Franklin Fi | A Personal Finance Adventure for Next Generation Investors
The Franklin Fi BLOG is written by author Shane Dillon from his present-day perspective. The blog is an accumulation of personal finance lessons that Shane has learned over the last twenty years. Whereas The Franklin Fi book starts from day one of the journey, Shane’s blog picks up twenty years later and explores the ideas of his daily life living abroad in Europe as a writer.