Last week, I outlined how I plan to measure our progress during our quest for financial independence and early retirement.

Today, we’ll open the curtain into our finances for the first time, and share where we stand in relation to our Net Worth, 529 Account Funding, and Passive Income goals as of June 30, 2017 – just four years before our target FIRE date of Friday, July 2, 2021.

I. Net Worth: 73.1% of Goal

Our net worth declined by 1.0% during Q2 2017. On the surface, this was a poor performance, as the S&P 500 was up 2.6% during the quarter. Not all of our assets are in the stock market, so the comparison is a bit unfair, but we’d still normally expect our net worth to rise with a strong stock market bolstered by additional savings and investments.

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