Rest Archives - CLIPPING CHAINS https://clippingchains.com/tag/rest/ Funding the Adventurous Life Sun, 05 Feb 2023 22:57:43 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 https://i0.wp.com/clippingchains.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/cropped-TEST_CC_Logo-1.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Rest Archives - CLIPPING CHAINS https://clippingchains.com/tag/rest/ 32 32 150809980 The Power of the Four-Hour Work Day (even in retirement) https://clippingchains.com/2023/02/06/four-hour-work-day/ https://clippingchains.com/2023/02/06/four-hour-work-day/#comments Mon, 06 Feb 2023 07:00:00 +0000 https://clippingchains.com/?p=9199 We live in a distracted world where depth of investigation is discouraged. Despite increases in scientific spending, the number of publications, or the amount of PhDs being awarded, major discoveries in science and engineering have declined significantly in recent decades. The new-music market is shrinking, and old hits are dominating. We are working more days …

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]]> https://clippingchains.com/2023/02/06/four-hour-work-day/feed/ 4 9199 QA8: What If We Run Out of Water? https://clippingchains.com/2022/10/03/questions-vol8/ https://clippingchains.com/2022/10/03/questions-vol8/#respond Mon, 03 Oct 2022 06:00:00 +0000 https://clippingchains.com/?p=8978 We’re back to the digital mailbag to answer your questions! For this week: Submit Your Questions! I solicit questions from email subscribers of this website. First, become an email subscriber here, which also includes a FREE spending and net worth tracking spreadsheet: Subscribe for new posts and receive a FREE spreadsheet for tracking spending, income, …

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]]> https://clippingchains.com/2022/10/03/questions-vol8/feed/ 0 8978 When Being a One-Car Household Really Sucks https://clippingchains.com/2020/03/30/when-being-a-one-car-household-really-sucks/ https://clippingchains.com/2020/03/30/when-being-a-one-car-household-really-sucks/#comments Mon, 30 Mar 2020 14:23:22 +0000 https://clippingchains.com/?p=4309 Right as all this coronavirus nonsense was ramping up, I was writing a really long post about what we were going to do with this new-found financial freedom. I was going to tell you about how (and why) we bought a new 2020 Toyota Tacoma in January. And then I was going to regale you …

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]]> https://clippingchains.com/2020/03/30/when-being-a-one-car-household-really-sucks/feed/ 6 4309 A Winter in Sicily, Part 1: San Vito Lo Capo https://clippingchains.com/2020/02/17/a-winter-in-sicily-part-1-san-vito-lo-capo/ https://clippingchains.com/2020/02/17/a-winter-in-sicily-part-1-san-vito-lo-capo/#respond Mon, 17 Feb 2020 14:00:00 +0000 https://clippingchains.com/?p=3939 So last week I quit my job. And now we’re in Sicily. Greetings from the sunny Mediterranean! And sunny it is, a wonderful departure from the snowy and dark northern latitudes where our journey began. We find ourselves this first week in the small town of San Vito Lo Capo, living that peninsula life in …

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]]> https://clippingchains.com/2020/02/17/a-winter-in-sicily-part-1-san-vito-lo-capo/feed/ 0 3939 The Astonishing Cost of Unused Vacation https://clippingchains.com/2020/01/13/the-astonishing-cost-of-unused-vacation/ https://clippingchains.com/2020/01/13/the-astonishing-cost-of-unused-vacation/#comments Mon, 13 Jan 2020 14:00:00 +0000 https://clippingchains.com/?p=3672 Hey you guys, it’s 2020, a new year! One of my favorite (past) pastimes is to begin each year with a plan for using all of my vacation. Studies, however, reveal that Americans are rarely capitalizing on the full gift of paid time to not work, and it’s costing us all big-time. The rippling effects …

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]]> https://clippingchains.com/2020/01/13/the-astonishing-cost-of-unused-vacation/feed/ 2 3672 Rest: We Need It and We Don’t Get Enough https://clippingchains.com/2019/05/06/rest-we-need-it-and-we-dont-get-enough/ https://clippingchains.com/2019/05/06/rest-we-need-it-and-we-dont-get-enough/#comments Mon, 06 May 2019 13:00:04 +0000 https://clippingchains.com/?p=1952 It’s no secret by now that I’m a full-on obsessed rock climber. Long ago the ship sailed on climbing only for “fun,” and my time devoted to this sport has been replaced with performance ambitions. I’ve spent most of the last decade planning, goal-setting, training, and chipping away at pre-defined objectives. But in climbing and …

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