We want freedom to do what we like. We rebel against rules and structure, herein lies the paradox. I see it regularly with one person businesses (such as dentists and electricians), freelancers and entrepreneurs, they chose this way of earning…
Category: Aspiration
Time to Simplify your life? – Some practical ideas
I am compulsively productive. I always need to be doing or rather achieving something, I even have to schedule in unstructured decompression time. I have recently started what is potentially the most challenging role of my career and definitely the…
A new type of rich – Q&A with Matt Esof – Stuntman, Martial Arts Instructor and Tech Entrepreneur
“The New Rich (NR) are those who abandon the deferred-life plan and create luxury lifestyles in the present using the currency of the New Rich: time and mobility.” – Tim Ferriss I am fascinated by people who take the Third Door option…
A new type of rich – Q&A with Claire Falconer – Sculptor, Entrepreneur, Writer
“The New Rich (NR) are those who abandon the deferred-life plan and create luxury lifestyles in the present using the currency of the New Rich: time and mobility.” – Tim Ferriss I am fascinated by people who take the Third Door option…
Project FIRE 40 – Calculating my Financial Independence number (and target Gateways to get there)
Calculating my magic number My number, that magical number that means I have enough to retire. The magic number itself is a myth, there is no specific number. There are too many future factors and variables to calculate a number…
Project FIRE 40 – 300 Spartan Rule and other ways to optimise your spending
In Project FIRE 40 – This the fourth step in my plan, optimising my spending with budgeting, Last year, a mate of mine said that it is impossible to save while living in London. He was probably earning £60k-£80k per year.…
Project FIRE 40 – Where does the money go? – How to easily get to a grip on your personal finances.
In Project FIRE 40 – This the third step in my plan, working out my Baseline – Knowing where I am now and tracking where my money goes. What get’s measured gets done. How many people could say what their net…
Project FIRE 40 – Pursue Early Retirement – without the Mental Sacrifice – using Happiness Principles
In Project FIRE 40 – The second step in my plan is defining my principles/criteria to evaluate decisions. Money and our brains have a funny relationship. Our money behaviour is different to our rational choices I’d love my money decisions…
Project FIRE 40 – My experiment to see if I can go from debt to retirement in 4 years
Two weeks ago I turned 36. I started working in 2008 and in the past 11 years I have built up career capital and I am (currently) quite marketable. I have a fair amount saved in my pension and a…
More Money, More Problems – with Sinal Govender
Guest post by Sinal – originally posted on here. Money, money, money, moneeey…MONEY! Ah the familiar tune from a time where Donald Trump hosted TV shows, and didn’t run a country. Whenever I see or think of the word money,…