The road to retirement travels through a tangled web of career and financial decisions.  Career and financial decisions I make now, at the beginning of my career, will have a profound effect on the direction for the rest of my life.  The bearings that guide my decisions come through knowledge, advice, opportunities I seek.  My goal is to make choices that fit into the framework of my current needs but also push me towards where I want to be in my life.  It’s easy to say, but very difficult to perform.

I intend to use this site for two reasons:

1. Personal Accountability – “What gets measured gets done!” (Peter Drucker) The idea is that creating a blog will motivate me to create and write down my plan and reasons.  Kind of like a Rand/McNally map for my mind marking the sites I’ve seen and directing me towards the places I want to see.
2. Collaboration – I hope that my experiences chronicled here will motivate others to do their own planning and to comment on mine.  Two brains are always better than one.

So, feel free to share your own thoughts here and critique mine.