A Blueprint for Financial Independence

A common resolution set at the beginning of a new year is to “get my financial house in order.” But how can you build a house, let alone pour any kind of foundation, without a blueprint? There are dozens of books and gurus trying to push their advice and tell you how to spend and invest your money. And then, there are three suburban dads just trying to make the world a little bit better.

Meet Brad Barrett and Jonathan Mendonsa of the award-winning ChooseFI podcast and Chris Mamula of the popular blog “Can I Retire Yet?”. They have walked the talk and now want to share their knowledge with you. Together, these three regular guys will show you how they made the relatively simple choices to reclaim decades of their lives, and how you can too.

Distilling the best of the popular ChooseFI podcast, this book pulls from the collective knowledge of those who have decided to build a lifestyle around their passions instead of allowing their finances to dictate their future. These stories demonstrate universal principles, giving you the opportunity to pick the elements that are the most applicable to your financial situation and “choose your own adventure.”

The book covers a wide range of topics that will help you build a strong financial foundation:

Developing a growth mindset

Defining your values and aligning them with your spending

Cutting years from your estimated retirement date

Questioning the status quo on “required expenses”

Cutting travel expenses and putting family vacations within your reach

Learning how to earn more and live with abundance

Updating the common accepted wisdom on college education and the debt associated with it

Cutting through the noise on investing to discover strategies that work

Showing how to implement investment strategies that enable the lifestyle you desire

while controlling downside risk

Whether you have mountains of debt now or are recently debt-free and wondering what to do next, Choose FI : Your Blueprint to Financial Independence will give you the information to guide your next move.

MK Williams