Conversations About Money: Being Wealthy is Not About Money
“Are we going to be poor, mum?” – my teenage son asked. I was driving us to the gym and we were talking about changing our phones. Naturally, he wants a top-notch iPhone; I understand that. I worship in the temple of ‘Apple’ too. What was my son about? I…
Tips for Choosing Your First Investments if You Have Little Money
So, you’ve heard all the advice about how you should be investing, and you can’t wait to get going. You are considering your first investments and there’s only one problem – you don’t have much money. You’re not alone in this regard. Every investor would like to have tens of…
Budgeting is Not for Wimps: My Cash Flow Analysis Needs Resurrecting
What did you do this weekend? Anything exciting? Because I spent my time between meeting old friends, making new ones and doing my cash flow analysis. Which, as it happens, needs resurrecting. You see, most people use budgeting to control their spending. My kind of budgeting is somewhat different…
Transform Job Redundancy Into a Most Exciting Opportunity
In this post, I discuss seven ways to get you away from viewing a job redundancy as the end of your dreams and see it as the opportunity of a lifetime. Faced with job redundancy, we feel fearful and stressed; this is only to be expected. Heck, I want to…
Financial Stress: How Drowning in Debt Adversely Affects Your Health
If you are up to your neck in debt, then you know just how stressful trying to keep up with bills and payments can be. Financial stress, however, is not simply in your head. If it gets bad enough, it could start affecting your overall health in very serious…
Your Game Plan to Financial Independence
Editor’s note: This is a guest post from Pauline of InvestmentZen.com. The point Pauline makes here is simple: to achieve financial independence you need to master three things: spending less, earning more and investing wisely the rest. Financial independence is the stage of your financial journey where your passive income…
Women and Investing: the Wisest Options to Consider
What is your vision of the ideal woman? A careful mother and loving wife whose duties are limited to housekeeping, cooking, parenting and self-care, while the role of the main (and only) breadwinner belongs to her husband? No way! Today’s ideal woman is the one who knows how to stand…
7 Areas of Life That Improve When You Have Good Credit Score
‘Here she goes again.’ – I hear you say. Crooning about a good credit score and how to get it. You are right I’m on the go again. After all, I did promise you a series of articles on investing. Let me tell you, investing thirty minutes in checking…
This is What You Need to Know about Starting an Online Business and It Is Not All Flowers and Glitz
Are you thinking about starting an online business? I bet you are. After all, you read blogs and when the small matter of making a large income comes on the agenda what do you hear? You hear that to make more money you should start a blog. Even I told…
This is How You Know Without Doubt That You Are Ready to Retire: introducing F*ck That Index
Over the last several months my mind has been drifting towards thinking about whether I’m ready to retire. Okay. Not really pondering whether I’m ready to retire; more like trying to decide when I’m going to be ready. For me the matter of retirement – be it early or not…
Five Habits That Will Save You Thousands
Do you want to know what will save you thousands of pound (dollars) over the next year? Ah, you may be thinking, here is this old trick. She crests our interest and immediately hits us with the same old cr*p. You know the kind I mean. All this stuff…
Your Freedom Fund is the One Thing to Stop Life Happening to You
Let me ask you a question: Do you live your life or does life keeps happening to you? Life happens to you at least some of the time. I thought so. This is the case with most of us; we inhabit a personal space – mental or physical –…