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Lessons Learned From My Hiatus

The Motivated MD

For many who follow the blog regularly, you likely have noticed that I haven’t published a blog post in quite some time (a month or two). My passion for writing personal finance content was losing way to productivity and the compulsion to keep up with my competitors. Keeping a personal finance blog is a tricky thing.

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How Doctors Should Address Lifestyle Creep

The Motivated MD

Though I adhere to commonly agreed upon personal finance advice such as living ‘like a resident’ and well below your means, if you are overly frugal, you will deprive yourself of the enjoyment that is deserved when your income grows. Expensive Hobbies The last culprit I commonly see pressure finances are expensive hobbies.

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Be The Market: How Doctors Should Invest Their Money

The Motivated MD

As I continue onward in my journey writing a physician finance guide one chapter at a time, I wanted to tackle investing. For physician approaching retirement, for example, the threat of a recession may loom heavily over their finances. This means they likely can be more aggressive by housing most of their portfolio in stocks.

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Should Recent Weather Events Impact Your Emergency Fund?

The Motivated MD

Many who follow this blog know that I reside in South Carolina. However, this is a personal finance blog, and for me, it goes beyond that. Helene highlighted that even wealthy communities and well-financed and well-educated populations can be caught off guard and devastated. It has aged well I believe. expense).