Welcome to the early retirement show. If you are a long time listener, thank you. And if you are new to the show, as a reminder, this show is dedicated to helping you retire early, otherwise known as the show dedicated to helping you understand what you have to do to be in a position where you are financially free, where work is now optional. So whether you are a few years out from retirement and you just want to know everything to prepare

for that big date or you're new in your journey and you want to get a head start on maximizing

what you've worked so hard for throughout your life, this is the show for you.

So we discuss everything from investments to taxes to insurance

and everything that comes in between.

So without further ado, let's go ahead

and hop into today's episode.

Welcome back to the early retirement show

and I'm excited.

Today is a fun episode, which is about the five investing tips and really the five

things to think through when investing. And there's so many things. I could literally go on for hours,

but I think people would fall asleep. And so I'm not going to do that. I promise. So I want to start

the episode by thanking everyone who has left recent comments and has rated the podcast.

That is how more people find it and more people are listening every month and I just have to

thank all of you for doing it because this is what I love doing and really preaching financial

literacy and it's not even really about the money. It's about what you want to do with your life. And I'm

simply using the money to do it. So for all of those who are saying, hey, Ari, thanks for all your

comments and for doing all of this. Well, I love doing it, number one. But number two, if you were

spending 30, 40 hours a week doing this, you could do it as well. People just come to me because they are doing what they do or they

love doing what they do. And I say, great, how can I help you either do more of that or switch to a

career where you can do really anything you want? So the point of financial planning, I always like to

just take that step back, is not to focus on the money, which sounds really weird.

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