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A Midlife Crisis Without the Sports Car

Mr. Clipping Chains — Mon, 23 Dec 2024 07:00:00 +0000

We chase financial independence and early retirement, believing these achievements will provide a better life. But what if the pursuit of such goals is actually trapping us? Listen to the Podcast I’ve drifted in and out of the meritocracy trap over the years, but mostly, I’ve stayed stuck in its sticky web. I quickly learned …

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Cory Richards: The Color of Everything

Mr. Clipping Chains — Mon, 01 Jul 2024 06:00:00 +0000

Cory Richards shocked the world when he abruptly ended his climbing career at the foot of Dhaulagiri in 2021. He is ready to tell his story. Introduction Perhaps no one has quit their job like my guest today, Cory Richards. Richards, still a world-renowned photographer, abruptly ended his career as an elite mountaineer in April …

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A Therapist on Satisfaction in Sport, Life, and Love

Mr. Clipping Chains — Thu, 28 Mar 2024 06:00:00 +0000

If you haven’t noticed, the concept of achievement and even competitiveness has weighed heavily on my mind as of late. A gift of the nontraditional life is the opportunity to step back and see the world around us with a degree of unusual clarity, far from the treadmill. For years I valued athletic and professional …

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All Work and No Play Makes You…Normal

Mr. Clipping Chains — Mon, 18 Mar 2024 06:00:00 +0000

The concept of play conjures the image of my three-year-old (and blonder) self, plastic shovel in hand, amorphous stains down the front of my pants. And certainly slobber. Lots of slobber. That three-year-old was certainly not concerned with social hierarchy or status, lacking a whiff of ambition to put the best version of himself forward. …

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Four Years of Financial Independence: The Slow Growth

Mr. Clipping Chains — Wed, 28 Feb 2024 07:00:00 +0000

For four years I’ve watched something slowly bloom. In my old life, the “before time” you might call it, I moved from task to task. If I wasn’t working, I unknowingly made a practice of turning recreational or hobbyist pursuits into something that, from an outsider’s perspective, looked an awful lot like work. Goals and …

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The Problem with Bucket Lists and How to Be Happy with Less

Mr. Clipping Chains — Mon, 02 Oct 2023 06:00:00 +0000

It’s often said that happiness equals what you have minus (or sometimes divided by) what you want. When our wants are many, what we have is of little consequence. That is why there are hordes of unhappy millionaires and high achievers who quietly suffer (yes, suffer) under the weight of lofty and insatiable desires and …

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Wow! You Are So Lucky to Retire Early!

Mr. Clipping Chains — Mon, 20 Jan 2020 14:00:00 +0000

Are those who become financially independent “lucky?” Are successful business owners, elite athletes, or artistic masterminds “talented?” Perhaps. But it’s hardly the entire story. Where and how does good fortune end and real “luck” begin? Lucky Choices? For the majority of us out there in the world, our lives are steered by a series of …

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Obsession and Performance Don’t Always Mix

Mr. Clipping Chains — Mon, 28 Oct 2019 13:00:00 +0000

This website certainly should fall more in the “personal finance” category than any sort of typical rock climbing website. But I will remind you that I’ve carried a full-tilt obsession with climbing for over nine years. So good. My number one goal for nearly a decade has been to be a better climber than yesterday. …

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