below your means

The following post is a guest contribution from Early Financial Freedom. Giving the state of the economy, can you really achieve early financial independence? Is it a mirage that you can only imagine? My wife and I would like to assure you that it is real and attainable if you are serious about it. The bottom line is that you need to desire financial freedom in order to achieve it. The desire is the driving force for making early scarifies for later pleasures. How We Got There: Let me introduce myself. I am an engineer from New York and am happily married with a wonderful 7-year-old son. After working 10+ years as a hands-on engineer and later as a supervisor, I resigned in April 2012 to stop working for others and join forces with my … [Read more...] about Tips for Achieving Early Financial Independence