Full disclosure: I’ve never been a trapeze artist and I never will. But I can guess how you learn to be one. I imagine when you are learning you have…
Category: Financial independence
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When you distil it down to its most simple definition what most people (everyone?) is aiming for is two things: financial security and financial independence. That is, to know they…
The Interest Rate Dilemma If you have accumulated savings you will have been watching in dismay as rates have fallen, and fallen, and fallen. From the lofty pre-Credit Crunchheights when…
Forget Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates or Elon Musk, the richest man to have ever lived is reputed to be Mansa Musa, a 14th Century ruler of modern-day Mali and the…
For many people, the prospect of retirement fills them with dread; “30 years, what am I supposed to do with that?” I’ve found from conversations with people entering retirement this…
“The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present” Calvin & Hobbes If you are one of the many who were so focused on the day-to-day…
“Annual income 20 pounds, annual expenditure 19 pounds 19 shillings and six pence, result happiness. Annual income 20 pounds, annual expenditure 20 pounds ought and six, result misery.” From David…
If you don’t have much of C you need more of A because you can’t rely on B If you don’t have much of A you need more of…
We are all used to checking the balances of our bank accounts, these days we can do it in a matter of seconds on our phones. When it comes to…
When you get into your fifties life can feel like it’s picking up the pace a bit, the years go by more quickly and the thought of life after work…