Motivation

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays Everyone! Here are the top Financial Samurai posts of 2017. The best thing about hard work is when it’s over. Once finished, you can basically sit back and enjoy all of the rewards if you wish. And if you hustle long enough, you might positively change your life forever. In 2017 I wrote 175 posts, averaging […]

To get better, you must be brutally honest with yourself. Open yourself up to stinging criticism and judgement so that you may improve upon your deficiencies. One of the downsides of putting yourself out there is that you open yourself up to misinterpretation or criticism. Fear of ridicule is one of the biggest reasons why

If you want to reduce emotional stress, you need to start seeing life through a different perspective. Perfect happiness is an illusion. You would think life is a piece of cake being a stay at home and work from home dad with a stay at home spouse. But I recently went through two weeks of intense

Motivation is the key to progress. And progress is my one word definition of happiness. This post will discuss how to motivate yourself when the desire to be rich is gone. Eventually, we’ll all be rich enough or feel rich enough to stop hustling. I spend a lot of time responding to comments, so I

If you want to get luckier in life, realize that success is mostly luck. I live by the mantra, “Never fail due to a lack of effort because hard work requires no skill.” It’s a reminder to STOP making excuses when something seems too daunting to tackle. There’ve been too many instances when I didn’t start something because I

I am a super optimist. I believe there are solutions for impossible things. Whenever there is a seemingly insurmountable challenge, I like to find a way. Whenever I sprain my ankle, the first thing I think is: thank goodness I didn’t break my ankle. Whenever I lose a bidding war on a house I want,

There’s a reason why get rich schemes fail. You’ve got to be willing to do the dirty work and put in the time if you want to get rich. Going all in on margin is likely to leave you broke. Working for someone else to get rich takes a very long time. And trying to

Always be grinding! Happy New Year Everyone! Hopefully all of you survived and are ready to rock it in 2017! I spent a lot of time over the holidays thinking about why I failed at so many things, and the consistent answer I came up with was that I wasn’t grinding hard enough. Why did I

It’s always fun to do a year in review post because it’s interesting to review all the failures! I’m always so enthusiastic about my goals during the beginning of the year and I inevitably lose steam towards the end. Does this happen to any of you? Let’s dive into my 2016 year in review. For 2016, I