Month: October 2018

How to be the CEO of YOU, INC.

Think of your body as a company and each of your emotions and character traits is a separate employee.  Some are great like your internal motivation.  Many are not so great like your tendency to procrastinate.  A few aren’t really good or bad like your propensity to use big words to sound smart even though you’re not exactly sure what propensity means.  People can see right through that sort of thing.

The problem is all these emotions and general character traits battle each other for dominance within your mind and body.  What you need is a good leader to keep them all in line… Continue reading “How to be the CEO of YOU, INC.”

Pay off Your Credit Card, Kid

If you’ve been following this blog for any length of time you’ve probably noticed that you can just read the title of most of my blog posts and get the basic lesson.  This particle article is no exception.  It will eventually get around to me pleading with you to pay off your credit card, whether you’re a kid or not.

It’s fairly common for bloggers to summarize their posts with “Key takeaways” at the end of the article.  Maybe that’s because they figure people will be forced to read their entire article if they want to learn that sweet, sweet takeaway advice.  They know people can just scroll to the bottom right?  Either way, I’ve done you guys a solid and just put my main point in the title of the article. Continue reading “Pay off Your Credit Card, Kid”

Be Like Mrs. Wealthy Pants, Don’t Buy a Bunch of Dumb Shit

“Well, well, well…Would You Look at Mrs. Wealthy Pants…

…and her beat up car.  Some kind of ‘wealth’ she must have, hahaha!” said the consumeristic fool, Bill.  “Yeah,” responded the consumeristic fool’s bff, Will. “I bet Mrs. Wealthy Pants doesn’t even have a car payment.  La-Hu-zer!” Continue reading “Be Like Mrs. Wealthy Pants, Don’t Buy a Bunch of Dumb Shit”

How to Turn Your Weaknesses into Strengths and Become the Person You Want to Be

What kind of person are you? 

The question itself is kind of ridiculous because it assumes the type of person you are is fixed.  We always describe ourselves in fixed ways.  I’m not very good at math or I have terrible handwriting or I’m unorganized.  These characteristics feel like they’re written in stone.  They feel fixed like there is no way to change them.

Really our characteristics are more carved in a glacier than they are carved in stone.  The ice is constantly changing but the change feels so slow that we often don’t recognize it.  If we change the way we view the question then we can change the type of person we view ourselves to be.   Continue reading “How to Turn Your Weaknesses into Strengths and Become the Person You Want to Be”

The $2 Meal When I Don’t Pack a Lunch

We’ve all been there.  It’s lunchtime around the ol’ office and everyone is grabbing their coats and top hats, or whatever.  They’ve got to move quickly, like a herd of time-compressed sheep, because the lunch break is only so long.  They rush out into the cold world to give away much of their hard-earned profit for an overpriced lunch they’ll shove down their throats with hardly a second to taste.

Not you.  You’re on a different plan.  You want to be financially free, frolicking on a beach, while your coworkers are still grabbing their top hats for their daily mid-work food purchasing extravaganza.  Continue reading “The $2 Meal When I Don’t Pack a Lunch”

5 Steps to Stop Being a Chronically Late Person

Before we really get into it, I don’t know if these steps will actually work or not.  I’ll just be upfront about that.  I don’t know if these steps will work because I already show up to places on f*cking time.  I have no way of testing these steps because I don’t need these steps.  But if you’re someone who is chronically late this will benefit you.

An unsettling amount of my family is chronically late.  Ironically, there is probably at least one or two relatives of Mr. Burrito Bowl, reading this post just real quick, right now, before they head out the door.  They will inevitably be late for whatever they were supposed to be at. Continue reading “5 Steps to Stop Being a Chronically Late Person”

How to Reduce Your Anxiety for Free- My Favorite Life Hack

“Mr Burrito Bowl, I’m stressed out.  Can you give me any life advice?”- Millions of people

Yes I can.  In the words of the legendary Iceman, Wim Hof, “Breathe motherf*cker.”   I use Wim Hof’s breathing protocol every single day.  Overall, his breathing method is a stress and anxiety reducer.  He couples his breathing with cold exposure and meditation for a powerful 1-2-3 punch.

The barrier for entry is practically zero, you just have to breathe.  It’s harder to get people on board with the cold showers and meditation, but if I could convince the masses of one thing, it would be take ten minutes everyday and do his breathing exercise. Continue reading “How to Reduce Your Anxiety for Free- My Favorite Life Hack”

Financial Independence and the Art of Travel Hacking

Hi friends, today we have our first ever guest post here on Burrito Bowl Diaries! Hooray! Erica Schatte is a world traveler and renowned story teller. She's funny and real great. She's also Mrs. Burrito Bowl's sister.  

I've been trying to convince Erica to do a guest post for months now.  She's a travel hacking aficionado and a wizard with credit cards. She will also tell you who to start on your fantasy football team.  A jack of all trades this one.  

Erica is the person who first introduced Mrs. Burrito Bowl and myself to the idea of travel hacking and even early retirement.  Thanks to her we were able to travel to Thailand on our honeymoon for nearly free. Come to think of it I should probably write an article about that. In this article she'll give an overview on how she does travels all over the world and how you can too.

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