Welcome to Radical Personal Finance a show dedicated to providing you with the knowledge, skills,

insight and encouragement you need to live a rich and meaningful life now while building a plan

for financial freedom in 10 years or less.

It is New Year's Eve 2019. Today closes out a year and also a decade and probably

as you're listening to this we're opening up into a brand new year and a brand new decade.

And I am an unabashed fan of the turnings of the years,

just the marking of the seasons. I really enjoy that. My birthday is in

June and so I have this really mathematically organized life where I'm always looking forward either to my calendar year

achievements and goals or I'm looking forward to my birthday here achievements and goals and in fact

I actually have the blessing of having an even more organized life in that my years line up quite nicely with big round numbers in five-year increments.

I'll turn 35 this year and so on the 2020 the decade

markers I have a nice round five-year birthday and then my big decade birthdays come

right in the middle of the chronological decades so I think very much in terms of these five and ten year increments, one year, five year, ten year

increments.

And over the last few days, as I've encouraged you to do, I have, together with my wife, we've been reflecting back on the last 10 years and I got to say, I didn't expect it to be as much fun as it is, and it has been. You know, for us it's been a really joyful decade and I knew that we had done some cool stuff in the

last 10 years I knew that we were you know living our best life and just really a lot of things are going well

We've had a whole lot of challenges, but what a lot of things have gone really really well and I knew that but it wasn't until we sat down and really made a

list when I realized just how incredibly productive the last decade has been for me

and for my family. It's been awesome and that has helped to give me just a lot more

confidence going into the next decade. It's helped me to dream bigger dreams for the next decade

than I was previously, and it's helped me to feel like I can really accomplish some

really cool stuff in the next decade. I am constantly missing short term or short you know short

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