Time management - exercise 1

I tried a time management technique - writing every hour what I am doing for a week. The final results are here, and it is fascinating.

Most time consuming activity is sleeping with 31.6%, followed by working time with 30% of my time. Add to this the time for transport - 8%, and I have 69.6% gone, more than 2/3 of my life. Then I got time spent with my other half - 18%, time spent online on the phone or laptop, big part of this also work - 10.41%. The rest it is used for cleaning the house (6.95%), social activity (3.82%), eating (1.74%) yoga (1.74%) and personal hygiene (1.04%). This is my life now.

On my personal notes, financial independence will free up to 30% of my time, huge benefit, which I hope to use it for family, social meetings and relaxation. Need just to get there.

Maybe I will do this exercise again in a couple of months. See you soon!

Anti-procrastination shield

Lately i find the most awesome and unexpected excuses, but also some of the most boring ones. I need to do my work, to respect my deadlines, but i find myself procrastinating. Not with everything, i start to train myself to become the best version of myself. I am improving physically, emotionally and mentally. But between my training, my work and my time with my partner, i have barely something left for sleep. I am performing better, i am quicker and more efficient, but i cannot make the time to go faster to get where i want to be. I need time, and the time itself need me. I am a Time-master, but i have no change left. What should i do?

Time, time and time again

I always said that the best think money can buy is not freedom, it is time, When we are financially free we are not spending our time on a job we like or not, we can do what we choose to do. So, it is freedom, but it is also time. Nothing to say, i am following my passions even now, but between work, hobbies and me time, there are days where all that is left is only time to sleep. And I sometimes tend to use it , and diminish my sleep with one hour or two if it is needed by circumstances. And i know it is not a good choice, but i really want to finish this, or that, and I trick myself into using my sleeping time for other stuff. This is one of my strongest motivation on my early retirement journey, to get enough time for me to do all that i like, and find enough of it to go and read for one hour in the park.

Keep dreaming, but the plan is set.

Have a nice weekend!
G.

Property crowdfunding - Most precious resource - Dan Zinger

* Today i will talk about a lot of interesting stuff. I will start with a property crowdfunding company called propertypartner.co, which invested massively in marketing lately. I would rate it 3/5 as the commission is not exactly stated, the monthly dividend is around 2-3%, the property valuation is updated monthly and seems to be alright, but the procedure used to send money back is a bit inconvenient as they will call you in the name of anti money laundering measures to check if you are real person and everything else. I would not use it as they are better companies on the market.

**  Did you ever heard about Dan Zanger? If not you should check on him and his portfolio, at least to learn how one will establish a world record ever, Dan took a portfolio of a measly $10,775 and turned it into an incredible $18 million in just 18 months. He shares his work because he loves his work, simple as that. How many people do you know that have done over 29,000% return in one year? None, and that is because Dan stands alone as the best of the best. Could be just luck? We will never know. A bit more data about him, he calls William O'Neills best seller, How to Make Money in Stocks, the “traders bible.” His website is something to study, even if it is a bit too flashy in my opinion. The link is www.chartpattern.com/  and his style is different than mine, but i was thinking that, even if i pick one thing and i improve my strategy with 1%, is still worth it.

*** And few words about resources. If Leonardo Da Vinci had enough ideas to cover four centuries of progress, but not the right resources to build his inventions, today the situation is completely different. We got almost any kind of resource needed to accomplish anything, but not enough ideas. And jumping from one idea to another, do you know what is the most precious resource on earth? No, it is not diamonds, platinum or gold. It is not Uranium either. It is TIME. And even if every one of us instinctively know that, we are still wasting our time carelessly sometimes. Because do not forget, as a FIRE trader, we are trading our hard saved money for time, in the end. And when we are gaining 15-25 years, retiring early, we are in the unique position of being rich beyond compare. Other would think themselves lucky for having a few extra months, and we got years. Just think about. I hope this would motivate you to save even more, and to get at that point of becoming financial independent even faster.

Good luck my friends! See you tomorrow!