Financial Freedom Isn’t What You Think It Is

What it’s like to “get there”—and where we get it wrong.

Image by Kyle Kesterson In 2021, I, like many others, experienced a bout of good fortune when some of my investments suddenly skyrocketed. For much of that year, I found myself in a financial position in which I felt that I would never have to work again (“felt” being the keyword here, as I was not in the same position come 2022, when certain markets dropped upwards of 90%.) Ultimately, I was wrong—I did ‘have’ to work again if I wanted to maintain my current lifestyle. But for about a year, I was living a life of total financial freedom. For that short period of time, I had “made it.”…

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