Welcome to Radical Personal Finance, a show dedicated to providing you with the knowledge, skills, insights, and encouragement you need, to live a rich and meaningful life now, while building a plan for financial freedom in 10 years or less.

My name is Josh Rashitz, I'm your host, and today we're going to kick off a series where we talk about how to wind down a year and how to plan for the next one.

Over the next couple of weeks, I'm going to bring you a series of shows where we talk about how to finish one year, and then interesting things you can do to plan and prepare for the next year.

I don't know what you like to do at the end of the year, but I'll share what I like to do and

hopefully there's some tips in here that are helpful for you.

One of the things that's most important for me is always to trigger off my planning, usually before

December, but at the very least by December. So as we start this series here in the beginning of

December I encourage you follow along with me in some of what I have to share with

you. I think one mistake many people make in their annual planning is they wait

too long to plan.

Me personally, I enjoy taking time off from work.

I enjoy being totally free and disconnected from my business life, and I really

really enjoy the holidays.

Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday,

but of course Christmas and New Year's

are really nice as well.

And one of my markers of wealth, one of the things that I consider that it

means to live rich for me personally is to genuinely have time off around the holidays. For me that's a marker of luxury. I can remember

when I was a kid we often went camping at Christmas time and I could remember when I was a kid,

we would go off a New Year's weekend,

and we go to a campground.

And we'd have a great time.

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