Rockstar Rumble, Round 1, Posts 65-72

Here are the latest games in the first round of the 2019 Rockstar Rumble. We've listed each "game" (one post versus another) along with wording provided by the author when the post was submitted. Also listed is a keyword after each post title to make it easy to vote. Be sure to vote for your favorites since you will help determine the winner! Criteria for the best article is what makes Rockstar content which includes these factors:

  • Starts with an interesting title
  • Includes unique content — we like posts that are edgy, feisty, funny, failure-focused, and super helpful
  • Easy to read
  • Positive/uplifting (vs. negative)

The voting will run for 48 hours. At that point, a winner will be named and will advance. You can follow the results in the brackets here. Please note, there is ONE VOTE PER PERSON. To be sure you see all games, click on the Rumble category link and scroll down. If you like great posts like these featured, you can subscribe to the Rockstar Finance weekday email and get the best personal finance articles delivered to your inbox. Today's games are brought to you by Mediavine, a full-service ad management solution for digital content creators. Here are today's games: GAME 33

  • Financial Freedom: 7 Easy Steps To Achieve Your Dreams (Dreams) -- Can you imagine a life made of choices? A life where you can do what you love and have time to discover your real passion and take control of your time? In this post, I share how financial freedom changed my life, and how it can change yours too! Financial freedom is about giving you the choice to do what you love: it’s about being financially independent and not having to trade your time for money anymore.

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  • Is Early Retirement Keeping Millennials From Having Kids? (Kids) -- Ever the provocative blogger, Cubert sets out on a mission to learn if in fact there's a kernel of truth to his hypothesis. Is the pursuit of early retirement (and financial independence) so compelling that it has a hoard of millennials opting out of parenthood? This post looks at some interesting demographic trends while making some uplifting observations in the final analysis.

[poll id="165"] GAME 34

  • Where My Mini-Retirement Mental Breakdown Led Me (Mental) -- As we neared the end of our one-year mini-retirement and looked at what lay ahead, the pressure of figuring out our new life became too much. I suffered a complete mental breakdown. Find out how I got there and what it took to get me out of a dangerous tailspin.

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  • FIRE. RIP. 2014-2018 (RIP) -- A thought provoking post that explains the why FIRE is flawed and the fundamental problems with FIRE. Why we are giving up FIRE in the traditional sense and what we are doing instead.

[poll id="166"] GAME 35

  • What Helps You Achieve Financial Independence Besides Money (Achieve) -- Money itself only gets us so far. A certain mindset and particular courses of action are required to increase financial health. In fact, according to current millionaires, specific behaviors, activities, and choices, are incredibly important on the quest for wealth accumulation and financial independence. As you go along in your pursuit of happiness and financial freedom, consider these words from millionaires ahead of you on the path to help you reach your goals.

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  • 5 Alternatives to Financial Independence That Everyone Should Know (Alternatives) -- This post explores alternatives to the cliche financial independence narrative of save 50%+ of your income for ten years and then live frugally for 40+ years. The examples in this post demonstrate that at different stages of life you can employ different strategies to be independent and live a life of self-direction and adventure.

[poll id="167"] GAME 36

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  • 6 Reasons Why Jealousy Isn’t Prominent in the FI Community (Jealousy) -- Imagine a room full of people at a party talking about their net worth, how their house is paid off, and how they might quit their job just because they feel like it - and pause....wait for it... there is no one-upmanship and no one is jealous of anyone else! How does this happen every day in the online party that is the FI community? This post offers some psychological explanations.

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