Be Grateful

Last updated: December 20, 2016

Yet another year has gone by. What a better time than Holiday Season to be grateful. Grateful for the life you have. Grateful for the education you received that led you to discover the realm of financial independence. Grateful to have a warm shelter. Grateful to have all what you got in 2016. Because that’s already more than enough.

On my side, I’m grateful for the following things that happened this year:

Our move to our new home — warm, full of love, perfectly matching our expectations
Live in the country side where we enjoy to raise our children close to the wild
Have kids that are healthy and fill our lives with joy (and stress sometimes)
Have a wife who supports my crazy ideas about optimizing everything, from our savings rate to our Internet connection
Have a well engineered car that is still reliable
Exchange and learn so much new things with our Swiss FIRE community, that helps to speed up my journey towards Financial Independence
Realize that my efforts to spread the FIRE (Financial Independence, Retire Early) word start to pay off with 6'500 visitors in 2016, who had 13'000 sessions, viewed 31'000 pages, and let 317 comments — hopefully awareness about Financial Independence in Switzerland will continue to increase in 2017
Stumble upon the Minimalism documentary that altered my life in so many ways — about the important things as they describe it, like health, mindfulness, consumerism, purpose, and so much more
Have access to exceptionnal resources from the best brains out there such as the How to write better course or The Miracle Morning book (Amazon DE, FR, UK, US)