Financial planning is a nonsensical term really. What we really need to do is plan our life. Then the money goals become very obvious. I was chatting with a mortgage broker yesterday who asks new clients what their financial goals are, (like financial planners do as the first part of the financial planning process) and […]
Money Problems and the Four Gs
I had some fun last week being involved in a short film shoot at my home. Actors and videographers transformed my place into a film set – with lights, cameras, and plenty of shouts of “action!”. There were two young boys, aged 11 and 7, who I had various entertaining conversations with during the intervals […]
How to Save Money Fast
Does money slip through your fingers easily? If so, you are having the same experience as the vast majority of people who complete my pre-coaching questionnaire. Why does this slippy thing keep happening, even though we know it and it bothers us? I believe the part of the reason is dead simple. In our western […]
Money Management 101: How to Stop Running out of Money
Do you keep running out of money before your next payday? Is money management a mystery to you? That’s what happening to a lot of my 20 year old uni student daughter’s friends. And I think it’s happening to quite a few of us a fair bit older and supposedly wiser ones too isn’t it?! […]
Evaluate Investment Opportunities – the right way
Whether we are in business, or are investors, or simply looking for ways to get ahead and be better off, we need to have a process to evaluate investment opportunities and decide which is right for us. Despite the encouragement to be “action takers” in many sales pitches, there is a certain amount of consideration […]