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How does money affect your personality
I have always believed whether we do or don’t have piles of money our core values remain unchanged. In my mind, money is not the catalyst for bringing out the philanthropist or scrooge in us or the key to our dark and untrustworthy side. To my surprise, a number of...
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Why do smart women make bad money choices?
And newsflash no matter what our internal voice is telling us we are all smart. It’s just as factual that we all make bad money choices at one time or another. This is not because we are bad with numbers or stupid, it is simply our prehistoric protective brain...
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Five things holding you back financially
We often look outside ourselves and blame our financial situation on the economy, politics or some other external force. While these may be totally valid speed bumps to building wealth our focus on them diverts our attention from our internal, more deeply ingrained,...
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Are money tracking apps safe?
I have been using a simple excel spreadsheet to manage and monitor my financial life. It works but is time consuming to populate from all the various sources and makes me feel as dated as the Generation Xer I am. Recently on the Choose FI podcast one of the hosts...
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My thoughts about property investing
Many years ago I bought a small property as a weekend getaway. I hadn’t caught on to the income generating value of property at that stage and after realising not too many weekend getaways were happening, I decided to rent it out. I wish I could say the property bug...
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What is this FIRE movement and is it for me?
“Time is more valuable than money. You can get more money but you cannot get more time”. Jim Rohn This is the core philosophy of the Financial Independence Retire Early Movement (“FIRE”). Fire has been the buzzword in the US for a number of...
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