The Self-Directed Life

This section of the site is for articles on how financial freedom facilitates living on purpose.

Live the Good Life and Avoid the Goons that Haunt It
Article #1 on Living on Purpose: How to live the good life by avoiding the negative effects of jealousy, insecurity, failing health and other “goons.”

The Retire Early Personality
Article #2 on Living on Purpose -- Is there a personality type particularly drawn to early retirement? John Greaney says “yes” in an article at the RetireEarlyHomePage.com site. I am not so sure.

Give Up Television and Grow Rich
Article #3 on Living on Purpose -- Tap into the most precious good of modern times -- plentiful free time.

Sex Is Overrated (Or So My Wife Often Observes)
Article #4 on Living on Purpose -- Thinking sex is more important than it is causes you to spend on the wrong sorts of stuff.

Staying Married Just to Be Different
Article #5 on Living on Purpose -- Don’t say it with flowers, and 11 other tips.

Taking Risks Isn't What It Used to Be
Article #6 on Living on Purpose -- Saving is risky. So is lots of other stuff.

Building Self-Confidence by Saving Money
Article #7 on Living on Purpose -- One reason why many find it hard to save is that they don't appreciate the many ways in which saving well would enhance their enjoyment of life in all the years to come before they turn 65. One way in which saving does this is by providing the saver with enhanced self-confidence for responding to life's challenges.

Financial Intimacy
Article #8 on Living on Purpose -- Sexual infidelity does not only undermine trust in relationships. It also undermines the efforts of those who engage in it of achieving true sexual intimacy with their spouses. It's the same with financial infidelity. Those engaging in it not only risk seeing harm come to their relationships as a result. They also give up opportunities to achieve growth.

Life/Work Balance Begins with Money Balance
Article #9 on Living on Purpose -- It’s by saving money that you acquire the ability to call the shots regarding your future and thereby attain lasting life/work balance.

Staying Young at Heart
Article #10 on Living on Purpose -- Passion Savers have a head start.

Smart Vacations Recharge Your Batteries
Article #11 on Living on Purpose -- Don’t view a vacation as time off from your pursuit of the self-directed life, but as a time to recharge your batteries and thereby make quicker progress.

Learning from Mistakes -- I Never Should Have Bought that Leo Sayer Album
Article #12 on Living on Purpose -- Tips on learning from mistakes relating to spending, dating, eating, and other junk like that.

Telling the Truth -- Practice Helps
Article #13 on Living on Purpose -- Conveying hard sayings in a soft tone.

I'm So Bored With Financial Pornography
Article #14 on Living on Purpose -- Have you ever wondered what it is about a naked man that most excites Demi Moore? This article tells all!

The Meaning of Work -- A Love Song
Article #15 on Living on Purpose -- It is through work that we "find ourselves." It is through work that we express love. Work is the thing that gives the movie of life its plot.