About a year ago, I had a really bad day at work – so bad, in fact, that before I left work that day, I put an important event into my Google Calendar. I picked a date exactly one year into the future and wrote the following: It was an audacious thing for me to […]
My Story
You Can’t Vs. Why Can’t You
One of the interesting things I’ve noticed is that when you start telling people to do things differently, a lot of people start coming out of the woodwork to tell you why whatever it is you’re telling people to do can’t be done. The reasoning varies slightly, but the end result always seems to be the […]
Financial Panther 2018 Personal And Blog Year In Review
With 2019 just starting up, I thought it’d be a good time to look back at 2018 and review how my year went, both personally and on this blog. What follows is a post that covers four things: (1) a brief financial year in review; (2) a travel year in review; (3) a blog year […]
Fighting The Innate Urge To Chase Prestige
Part of the duties of my current day job involves going to a bunch of lawyer conferences. As a result, I’m often surrounded by really successful lawyers. These are lawyers who have done pretty much everything right in their legal careers – top grades, good law schools, big-name law firms. One thing they all definitely […]
Opportunity Cost And My Wife’s $500,000 Residency Program
This past weekend was a busy one in the Financial Panther household. My wife finally completed the last year of her dental residency and we had family come into town to celebrate the milestone. I even flew my mom in for the weekend (using points that I’ve accumulated over the past year, of course). My […]
The Financial Panther Money System (The Accounts, Tools, and Apps I Use In My Financial Life)
If you want to be successful with money, you need to have a good money system in place. Your money system consists of all of the financial accounts and tools you use to keep your financial life in order – things like your checking accounts, savings accounts, and any fintech apps you might use. Once […]