The goal of this blog

How can you make your bucket-list dreams pay for themselves by sharing them?

I set up this blog to document my journey towards the goals / dreams / ambitions I currently have.

I have been documenting my financial journey in Finnish for 10 years (2008 – 2018). During this period I was able to get debt-free and to save enough cash to buy an apartment without a mortgage.

(There are three big caveats to this story. I never had much debt to begin with. Most of the cash came from selling stocks in a company I founded. And I never bought the apartment. I also never got into investing which in hindsight was a terrible move.)

I have also written other blogs about getting rid of back pain, search engine optimization, influencer marketing and entrepreneurship. All of these have been in Finnihs.

There are three reasons I have switched into English:

1. Many of my friends (who I think will be the only readers of this blog) are non-Finnish and can’t read my blogs.
2. The Finns I want to write for will probably understand English just as well as Finnish.
3. Writing in English seems like a nice challenge.

My current financial stretch goal is a net worth of 25 million euros. Is it a goal or a dream? Currently it is a dream. I am hoping to make it a goal.

In order to get to this goal, I hope to:

1. Achieve a pre-tax income of 250 000 euros per year. This should be very much doable.
2. Buy a house (500 000 euros) and an apartment (500 000 euros). Both should be bought without a mortgage.
3. Start investing in an ETF that tracks the whole market (either world or S&P 500).

My other bucket-list items include stuff like:

• Finding ways to earn money without destroying my health in the process.
• Creating some nice places and events for my friends where we can hang out.
• Visiting some interesting places I have been always wanted to visit, mainly China, Australia and Africa.
• Donating money to my university.
• Organizing a meetup for people interested in growing startups in Finland.
• Getting strong enough to deadlift 2.5 x my own weight.
• Doing some creative stuff like videos and podcasts.
• Learning to play one of my favourite songs with guitar.

So, a lot of random stuff.