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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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Lessons Learned From My Hiatus

The Motivated MD

My passion for writing personal finance content was losing way to productivity and the compulsion to keep up with my competitors. Commonly I felt like I was just reiterating what so many others in the physician finance niche were saying while feeling like I had somehow already addressed the topic. Anyone can do it.

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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. How, then, can any physician find the time to research individual companies and make educated decisions on which publicly traded businesses are undervalued? We simply cannot. There are not enough hours in the day.

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Should Recent Weather Events Impact Your Emergency Fund?

The Motivated MD

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. Standard Disclaimer: None of the information on this website is meant as individualized financial or medical advice.

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Choosing to Rent or Buy a Home in 2025

The Motivated MD

This marks the 10th chapter of our Doctor Money finance series, which I hope to complete and formally turn into a publishable book or e-book in the not-too-distant future. The education alone, learning how different variables affect affordability, can help you better grasp the factors at play and how you can use them to your advantage.

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When Should Doctors Begin Investing in Real Estate?

The Motivated MD

For anyone gravitating towards personal finance and physician finance content, discussions around intelligent investing in stocks and bonds are relatively commonplace. With a significant portion of our income now free from the shackles of educational debt, we can entertain new ways to invest our earnings and grow our wealth.

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How Doctors Can Save More and Do Less

The Motivated MD

I have coined this content series Doctor Money: A Personal Finance Guide for Physicians , as this is my current working title. This week, we will focus on how doctors can automate their finances to remove their emotions and effortlessly save for many of their goals. This is the same for personal finances.

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