Is 2025 the year I finally lose the last ten pounds?
To my surprise, I’m a setting a weight loss goal—because I think I can achieve it in a sustainable and healthy way.
My word for 2025 is: welcome
It’s that time of the year where I pick a one word/phrase intention to set the tone for upcoming year!
Making 2025 a low-buy, intentional spending year
Setting my vision and guidelines for a low-buy, intentional spend year in 2025.
Taking a break from the house hunt and the pressure to be a homeowner
After a year of house hunting, I’m giving up…not completely, but I am taking a break from the intensive search.
Reflections on 2024
Doing my reflection on 2024 a little bit early this year. I review what went well and what could’ve gone better.
Is it better to do nothing or just something?
I reflect on letting my money grow for a relatively known outcome vs. taking a risk to grow it faster and to be bigger.
How to stop being a rat in the rat race
One of my favorite pieces to date, I explore how dreaming is the first step to getting out of the rat race.
Rising to the opportunity of managing my stress
Reflecting on a stressful first few weeks at the new job and what I’m changing to make things better from here on out.
What I’ve learned over the last two years
A reflection on the last two years away from paid employment as I return back to “work.”
The joys and wants of trading
What I’ve enjoyed and found to be missing in the life of a trader / investor.
Koreans work really hard and making a living isn’t easy for most
My heart breaks for the millions of hopeless and hardworking Koreans.
I’m not retired but it kind of feels like it
Musings on feeling purposeless—is this what retirement feels like?
I’m 31 and obsessed with a K-pop boy group
I am choosing joy today—and yes, this includes going crazy for ATEEZ.
A year for questions or answers?
2023 was a year full of questions. Even without answering the big one, 2024 is a year closer to answering rather than asking.
Q1 2024 check-in
Taking stock of the first three months of 2024 and things I’d like to be more mindful of going forward.
My biggest financial regret has cost me $200K+ and growing
Discussing the biggest financial mistake I’ve made—going to graduate school.
Getting around to the idea of trading full time
Wrapping my head around the idea of embracing a new career path that was unimaginable a year ago: full time trader and investor.
Figuring out what you're really meant to do
I’m currently reading, What You’re Really Meant to Do, and trying to figure what I’m really meant to do.
Quantum leaping in 2024
Discussing two major themes of change in the world and more personally and my phrase of 2024: quantum leaping!
Grief over not yet being where we'd hope to be and regrets from 2023
Reckoning with the reality that millennials don’t quite feel like we’ve arrived and reflecting on regrets from the past year.