Hit my coast FIRE target last month; started to not give a f at work and liberally say no to meetings/non productive work. It has been incredibly liberating and has surprisingly made me more productive. It is incredible how your demeanor and thought process at work can change when you don’t have to worry about the next paycheck.

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Lmao I do that even without being FIRE 🤣 it's hard to care these days

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Having a clear mind does wonders for not only productivity but creativity

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Congratulations. Hit my FIRE (coast?) number too and my low end retirement number that would let me go right now. I started declining meetings that are outside of my normal work hours, being honest about why something isn’t going to work (no, they don’t want to hear it), and generally make my schedule match what I want. Be out in about 4 years if the market can take the ridiculous amount of self owns we are throwing at it right now.

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Same when I made it I started just speaking my mind in meetings as expected a lot of people didn’t like it but most of them were people I don’t want to work with anyway. Weirdly enough some people really really liked it and honestly it ended up being an unexpected career accelerator

Any tips for how you achieved your target number ?

Regular investing, maxing out 401 for 15 years now, also got lucky with some AI and memory trades in the last couple of years.

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Congrats on hitting your FIRE target BTW!!! 😎 How old are you if you don’t mind sharing?

Early 40s, coast FIRE target was $2M which we hit earlier this year.

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What’s your FIRE target?

$3M with a paid off house. Hope to get there in 5 years or so.

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So happy for you! Please share your coast fire number and how you got there - would love to take some notes :)

Nothing fancy - regular investments, maxing out all tax advantaged accounts. Consistency and staying invested is 90% of the work.

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