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I began this blog with the intent of sharing my journey to wealth with you. Yeah, you don’t know me yet so why should you care, i know. Still, i hope to offer you some concrete steps, some new ways of thinking and reacting to money and hopefully some inspiration to set you on your own road to riches.

Other than the salary striptease, I haven’t done many personal posts, but I hope you’ll find what’s happening in my life right now interesting … I’m finding it to be terrifying, illuminating, exciting, dreadful and daring.

In past posts we looked at what feeling rich really meant … whether it was money or a lifestyle. Well, I’ve decided I’m going for both. We discussed waiting until retirement to enjoy the time we have. I’ve decided I’m going to enjoy my time so much now that I’ll never need to retire from what I plan to do.

In a quick summary of the past two weeks, I have:

• Quit my job of nine years without having another to replace it
• Decided to live in a state where I have no family, friends, colleagues or acquaintances
• Bought a house over the internet in a city I’ve never been to before
• Turned down the option of a position in my old company in my new city
• Contacted an agent to sell the house I live in now
• Cashed out my 401k with the intent to live jobless for at least a year
• Completely ignored the fact that I have such a phobia of travel that I haven’t gone more than 30 miles away from my home in 15 years

The Law of Attraction and simple manifestation have made most of this possible. But what do you think? Am I absolutely insane or do you find the thought invigorating? Brave or stupid? Refreshing or irresponsible?

I’ve thought all these things, believe me. One of the most troubling thought was the realization I’d be leaving my health benefits behind. That worried me until I started looking back through my medical records and could point to at least 90 percent of my health problems being directly related to the stress of my job. Health concerns not job related probably didn’t even add up to my deductable for each year.

So I may be irresponsible for not transferring and keeping my seniority, pension, and whatnot. But one thing about corporate America was the last straw - when I gave my resignation, not a single person in upper management said thanks for the nine years you’ve spent here, we’ll miss you, or sorry to see you go. And yes, before you ask, that was nine years with positive reviews and not a single write up or verbal reprimand.

Here’s to the next nine years. They may be scary. but they’ll be mine.

~$~