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I began following the FIRE movement nearly a decade ago. While I still have a journey ahead of me, FIRE has helped me substantially change my life in short order.

Since I started FIRE, I’ve paid off my student loans, maximized my income, learned to live below my means, and achieved many of my other financial goals.

While my journey is far from over, FIRE has helped me become more financially free. Between myself and my partner, we can afford to live off just one of our incomes.

When it comes to the FIRE movement, we still have plans for what we want to accomplish in the future, and in this article, I’m going to tell you exactly what we have planned for FIRE next.

My FIRE Movement Journey to Date

Curious to learn more about what I’ve done with the FIRE movement to date? Check out the following posts to learn more about my journey:

My Journey to a FIRE Lifestyle

My Chronic Career Journey: How I Built a Successful Career While Navigating Crohn’s Disease

How We Annihilated $85K of Student Debt in 18 Months

I Turned One of My Side Gigs Into a Full-Time Career: Here’s How + 5 Tips for Success

How I Made a Successful Career Switch

I Want to Be a Mad Fientist: 10 Activities I Plan On Enjoying in FIRE Retirement

Negotiation Skills I’ve Acquired to Succeed in Interviews and New Hire Dialogues

What FIRE Retirement Means to Me

How I Plan to Retire Early and FIRE My Career

10 Job Skills I Gained to Fire My Career Success

My Stock Market Investing Journey – How I FIRE My Finances

The FIRE Movement Journey (Upcoming)

There’s still a lot that my partner and I plan on doing with the FIRE movement.

Long term, we’d like to get to a point where we’ve accumulated enough investments that we no longer rely on either of our incomes. We still have quite a ways to go before we reach that point, however.

Regarding Debt

We’ve paid off a good amount of our debt, especially our student loans. We never carried so-called bad debt like credit cards (we pay them off every month). 

Next, I’d like to finish paying off a car and our house, which is the very last of our debt.

I will do everything in my power to ensure we never go into credit card debt, as it truly is a wealth destroyer.

We’ll be sure to maintain our emergency fund to prepare for costly and unavoidable expenses.

In Terms of Investments

We’ve succeeded in achieving many of our goals with our stock investments. 

As we finish paying off the last of our debt, I’d like to allocate more of our excess funds toward our stock investments and start picking up real estate investments.

It’s been a long-time dream to buy a vacation home near a warm beach. Ideally, I’d like to find a property that can primarily serve as an investment, but be something that we can enjoy on an occasional basis.

In the long term, I’d like to have at least several of these vacation properties and extensive investments in the stock market.

How I Will Spend My Time

I’ve written an entire post on what I want to do when we officially achieve what I call a FIRE retirement, which you can find here.

To put it simply, I’m most excited about being able to decide how I’ll spend more of my time, at any given moment.

My kids are young so my focus, naturally, is on spending more time with them. However, I’m also excited about traveling more of the world with my partner and investing more time in personal pursuits.

Some day, I’d like to run a marathon. I’d also like to get so good at yoga that I can do the most difficult poses (I can do some of the advanced poses, but not all).

Along with my travel dreams, I’d like to become fluent in French, Spanish, and German. I dream of having a full conversation in each of these languages and visiting at least 100 different countries.

I figure I’ll always want to work on some project or another, and I dream of turning FIRE Your Career into a brand that helps thousands, maybe even millions, of people around the world.

Conclusion – Your FIRE Movement

Do you have dreams for a FIRE retirement? If so, how would you spend more of your time?

I’d love to learn about your dreams and goals, so tell me what you dream of achieving with the FIRE movement in the comments below.

Best of luck to you on your FIRE journey – I look forward to learning more about your story 😉

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