By Mikael
Since this blog is about wanting to retire early and rich I am naturally doing some market research to find out what is driving people to search for ways or solutions to stop working on their job.
Within the last 12 month (if I am not mistaken) Google has grown a lot smarter and are now helping us search based on what other people have searched for. Because of this we can see at what age people want to retire. Not when they are actually going to achieve it but just what they are searching for.
So as you can see from this picture people have goals and wishes of wanting to retire with 5 year intervals (except for the magic number of 21 and the normal retiree age of 62 and 65).
What this tells us is that many young people are full of hope an... Read more
By Mikael
Being able to retire early from your job or from the work that you are currently doing is a dream for a great deal of people. Not having to get up in the morning and not having to go to work for someone else is seen on more and more people’s wish lists.
Even people that are self-employed or own their own company and run it like its president or CEO can have this feeling of wanting to be “free” and not being tied down in a situation where someone or something requires them to do something.
Unfortunately for the majority of people this dream will forever remain a dream and retirement will come when they hit the age where the laws tell them that it is time to retire. In some cases retirement will come earlier than that and especially in ... Read more
By Mikael
As promised a few days ago I wanted to share with you what it is that makes me want to retire as soon as possible and why I believe that becoming rich is a very positive thing and something that everyone should aim for.
But first let me tell you that finding my WHY, the reason for wanting to become rich and being able to quit my job, was not a fast process at all.
The truth is that, like most people that are trying to become rich, I wanted to become rich because of the money. Ever since I was a very young boy I have been fascinated with money and I have worked hard at acquiring them in any way I could think of (legally).
When I was very young I took out the trash and cleaned my room (which equals that I took everything and threw it into the... Read more