Build wealth. Love your life
Introduction Today I’d like to chat about ways to transform wealth into wellbeing. Why do we need to talk about that? Two reasons, really. First, wealth matters little if it doesn’t nourish our lives and contribute to our wellbeing. And second, in our pursuit of wealth, we often forget the…
‘What is your biggest success?’ – a friend asked me recently. Oh, gosh. My brain started spinning with examples of my savvy money decisions in the last eight years. Nothing seemed noteworthy enough to mention as my biggest financial success. What would you answer if someone asked you what…
Editor’s note: Many people believe, somewhat misguidedly, that their future prosperity depends on spreadsheets, calculators and the iron discipline to squeeze the living hell out of your life. I’m not one of those. Yes, I have spreadsheets and I know my day-to-day money; what I find most helpful in the…
Beating your investing goals is more about knowing yourself than it is about picking stocks A recent article did a great job of describing ways to make your money work for you. Of the five investments, I’ve actively invested in four and love the results I’ve gotten from each. It…
Do you spend hours pouring over your budget just to end up the month broke and disappointed? Yes, I used to do this as well. I’d spend my time and energy deciding what I’m allowed to spend on different items just to find that I’d forgotten something important. At the…
How is your Sunday going? Mine is great. I’m packing for my next trip – this time to Georgia the Country – while looking at a very large Christmas tree and writing this note to you, friend. Why the hurry? Because I just realised that I have not chatted to…
Does your teen think you are poor even when you’ve just returned from a nice holiday in the sun? They may be displaying early symptoms of what is known as a poverty mentality. And if poverty mentality was only mildly unpleasant and offensive to you, I wouldn’t be telling you…
Having conversations about money with teens is not easy. In this post I share why the most important money competence you can help your teen develop is spending money, the five essential skills when spending and how I’m trying to do this with my son. The five essential skills to…
“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…
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…
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…
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…