Yesterday I launched a course in financial freedom, which is a high level overview of how to achieve financial independence, a goal which I am personally very interested in. This is only revision one of the course, and to be honest with you it’s kind of rough around the edges at the moment. In the future I plan on revising the course and adding on a lot of little extras to it as well, such as blog entries that highlight key points, worksheets, and more links to additional resources.

It will probably be several more weeks, at least, before I finish revision two of the course. My classes let out next week, which should free up a lot of my time for other activities, such as working on the course and whatnot.

Take care,

The first course that I have planned, tentatively titled “A Course In Financial Freedom” is coming along nicely. The course is currently divided into ten sections, and I’m part way through section three. Considering that I only have a few hours a week to work on it, and I’ve already rewritten entire sections, I wouldn’t consider my progress so far to be horrible. But at the same time, it’s painstakingly slow, and the course itself is going to be a lot bigger than I had previously anticipated.

Doing this has shown me a very stark contrast between just posting blog entries and having real, meaningful content that you can apply even to your own life. It’s interesting how teaching something can actually help you to be learn it. Just as an example, one of the concepts in the course that I can apply to my own life is termed the ‘Freedom Factor’. This factor gives me a meaningful yard stick that I can chart my own financial freedom progress with. So in a sense, thinking about this course and writing it is actually giving me a better idea of how to achieve the goal of financial freedom in my own life.

Providing ‘real content’, as I’m beginning to refer to it as, is also a lot more time consuming and difficult than just writing down blog entries. You have to organize it, word it correctly, and present it in a way that can be understood and applied the easiest in the reader’s life. It’s not just a simple matter of writing down your thoughts anymore.

My classes are over in mid June, so that should clear up some more time that I can spend on the site, among other things. Now that I really have the mission defined, I can really start plowing time into the site itself, instead of thinking about what direction I want to go in.

Take care,