The Start Of Our Journey

Welcome! This blog seeks to impart the steps (or roadmap) we're taking to get to our financial freedom day. Join us as we embark on this path to financial independence and hopefully learn something with us along the way.

Our journey started a couple of years ago when we started reading Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki. That was quite an eye opener for us. Most of us were raised to become good employees - study hard, get good grades so you can get a good paying job with a good pension plan. Well, unless you've been living in a cave for the past couple of years, you would have realized that unless you're near the top of the food chain of many companies, your chances of getting rich is close to nil. Unless, of course, you happened to work for a Google-like company prior to the IPO. If so, count yourself lucky as many would struggle for years before they can afford to retire. After reading the book, we realized that we have to educate ourselves financially PDQ (pretty darn quick) if we didn't want to work until we're well into our 70's. We made the decision to dedicate a significant amount of our time to learn as much as we can about how to get ahead financially and the commitment to be financially free in 5 years or less.