When we recognise we’re unique, we stop wasting time looking for ready-made financial plans – from bloggers, influencers or the money pages of the Press. Instead, we focus on designing what we need – a plan for our unique circumstances and financial life goals. We are unique in many ways, as we’ll see, but we…
With a lot of our goals, we often follow one step backwards, with two more – in the same direction! In this short Insight, I’ll look at how Catastrophic thinking causes this and start to explore how we might overcome it.
In this extract from Chapter 1 of my book, ‘Who misleads YOU about money?’ we’ll learn how we’re tricked into spending all our money today. This matters because the result is our failure to save for our big, long term financial life goals – for ourselves and our loved ones.
I came to the conclusion, many years ago, that we should listen harder to quiet folk. And here I’d like to explain why.
How often do you stop and think about what’s really important for your personal happiness? What activities seriously lift your mood – without giving you a hangover afterwards? In this extract from one of my books – I’ll tell you mine.
Updated following the tragic recent death of ‘day trader’ Alex Kearns. This Insight is aimed at helping anyone (like my fictional character Joe, in the story below) to understand the real and horrendous risks of spread betting before it’s too late. Please share with your friends.
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