Happy New Year guys! I found it fitting to begin the year on a light note. This hopefully ushers in a period of regular blog posts. Whenever I correct a spelling or grammatical error on Twitter, I tag it #GrammerNazi.Predictably, the first @ replies graciously point out that it is #Grammar, at which I insist it’s #Grammer.
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I recently had the opportunity to sit on a judges panel for a business plan competition. In my category, we had over 20 business plans to judge, all based on a short executive summary, a 10 minute presentation by the entrepreneur and a 5 minute Question and Answer interaction between the judges and the entrepreneur. As you can imagine,there was a lot of pressure on…
Read MoreI love books. But like everything we love, unless consumed in moderation, the results can be be counter productive. Last week I was on leave, and decided to spend sometime on my bookshelf, only to realize I have over 15 unread or half read books. I also noticed at least 5 titles I’d skimmed over with the promise to read later that never…
Read MoreFor as long as I can remember, people have been making new year resolutions, and have been failing at it. This year, more than 90 million adult Americans made new year resolutions and the top resolutions were about health and financial well being. With billions of people around the world resolving to do better each year, why are things getting worse? Why is it that…
Read MoreA series on creating extra income streams cannot be complete without a post about my favourite side hustle; farming. I don’t really need to make a case for farming on here, I believe it’s quite obvious. Food doesn’t go out of fashion, everyone eats from the rich to the poor, and as a country, we are a net importer of food.
Read MoreOne of my readers on the last post asked for tried and tested alternative income sources. Well, I believe we’re all gifted differently and for that reason need to find those areas and capitalise on them for success, but it’s good to give a few ideas on what has worked for others, maybe it could work for you. BeMogul is my guest writer today, educating…
Read MoreLast post we talked about credit cards, and I think it’s fitting that this post is about increasing our income. There’s a story my boss likes to tell, I hope he hasn’t copyrighted it. He tells it best but I will attempt to do the same on here. One day maybe I’ll ask him to do a guest post on here.
Read MoreIt has taken me a long time to compose and upload this post because it puts my moral authority in having a personal finance blog to question. Then I figured we all have our vices and mistakes we make and need to correct, this is one of those for me.
Read MoreIt started right in my living room. I had a fractured leg, was home from hospital and I was going to need help around the house. I was referred to this young girl who had just completed high school and I liked her at first sight! Well, as soon as she’d settled in my house, I wanted to ‘help’ her. First step, we used my…
Read MoreTwo or so years ago, I had the privilege of free life coaching for a period of six months. I learnt a lot of things about setting goals, achieving them and general life direction, but the one thing that had the most impact can be summarised as this:
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