Lessons From An Elephant In The Peanut Factory – How To Avoid Financial Regret.
15.04.24
Fans of The Simpsons may remember the episode in which Bart unexpectedly wins an elephant. In the whimsical style of the Simpsons, the elephant escapes and wreaks havoc through a peanut…
Stories Differ But The Arc Stays The Same. As With Fiction, So To With Life.
01.03.24
Homer’s Odyssey follows the epic journey of Odysseus as he struggles to return home after the Trojan War. Facing numerous obstacles, including encounters with mythical creatures and the wrath of…
The Silver Linings of A Crisis
26.01.24
The Great Depression, global conflicts, COVID-19. Nobody would want to live through these crises of the past again; the death tolls and economic costs can be counted but the true…
The Influence Of Life On Money & Money On Life.
05.01.24
Why do some people enjoy spending money and others prefer to save? Why do some people retire with little to live on and others have more than they can spend?…
Lifetime & Help To Buy ISAs: The Investments That Help Your Children Onto The Property Ladder.
30.11.23
A client contacted me recently with questions about his daughter’s Lifetime ISAs (LISAs), which has inspired me to write this post. His daughter has saved into two LISAs and has…
How Much Should You Have In Savings?
20.11.23
Adults in the UK do not have enough money in savings. According to the money website, Finder.com, the average person in the UK has £17,773 in savings in 2023. But,…
Things That Are Impossible To Know
16.11.23
Certainty gives us comfort. It makes us feel secure. When we know what is around the corner we can plan for it, but so much in life is uncertain. I…
The Stranger Not in the Street – The Challenge Of Imagining Our Future Selves & Why It Matters
25.09.23
Something you don’t know about me: I don’t have a single tattoo. Sometimes it feels like I’m in the minority. I don’t have anything against them or the people who…
18 Simple Money Rules for Your Children (or Grandchildren)
12.09.23
With the benefit of hindsight and experience, we all would do some things differently if we could go back in time. Decisions we made, or didn’t make, with our money…
In The End, Was It Worth It? The Pyrrhic Victories of Wealth
19.07.23
The pursuit of wealth and the lifestyle it affords often entices people to work tirelessly, sacrificing personal well-being, relationships, and even job satisfaction in the process. But, will we look…
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