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How many ways are you unique?

And why is this the key to planning your money?

21st November 2024 How many ways are you unique. Clean. Paul Claireaux

How many ways are you unique?

And why is this the key to planning your money?

21st November 2024

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…

Why you need to beware of goal obsession

and how it could literally kill you

12th October 2020 Aircraft into storm

Why you need to beware of goal obsession

and how it could literally kill you

12th October 2020

If you’re planning to travel by aeroplane again (at some time in the future!) you’ll be pleased to know that pilots are trained to avoid goal obsession. In this short Insight, I want to explore why you need to avoid goal obsession too – and why you need to be extra ‘wary’ of those around…

The myth of stability and certainty

And where to learn the truth of what we have instead

12th October 2020 Minsky. Stability to Instability. Paul Claireaux

The myth of stability and certainty

And where to learn the truth of what we have instead

12th October 2020

Whatever your interest (or leaning) in politics, and unless you’re very young, you surely can’t have missed Theresa May’s promise of stability and certainty in the run up to the messy 2017 UK election.

What is selling really about?

and why you simply can't avoid it.

12th October 2020 What's selling all about

What is selling really about?

and why you simply can't avoid it.

12th October 2020

Most people in business say ‘I don’t like selling’ or ‘I don’t want our marketing to be salesy‘ … and I absolutely get that. No one wants to be viewed as a ‘cheezy, sleazy’ salesperson, do they? But if being ‘salesy’ is absolutely not what selling is about, what’s the secret?

Can you help (spread betting) Joe?

Or any of your friends from getting sucked into this hideous gambling activity?

12th October 2020 Joe and Naomi

Can you help (spread betting) Joe?

Or any of your friends from getting sucked into this hideous gambling activity?

12th October 2020

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.

No one cares how much you know

until they know how much you care

12th October 2020 Roosevelt. No one cares how much you know

No one cares how much you know

until they know how much you care

12th October 2020

No one cares, how much you know until they know how much you care What a truly brilliant insight that is. It comes from Theodore (Teddy) Roosevelt, U.S. president from 1901 to 1909, and I think some business leaders could learn a lesson from this. If you want to motivate people to work with you,…

Throw away your dream board

and visualize the right thing

20th March 2020 Dream Boards

Throw away your dream board

and visualize the right thing

20th March 2020

A lot of personal coaches will tell you that to boost your chances of success on your biggest life goals, you need to imagine yourself having achieved that goal. Many will also suggest that you create a dream board (aka Vision Board) with colourful pictures of everything you want, or believe you will become, to…

Get your teenagers flying

teach them to invest *early* in themselves

2nd April 2019 Teenagers flying

Get your teenagers flying

teach them to invest *early* in themselves

2nd April 2019

On this site, and in my book, ‘Who can you trust about money?’ I focus on ideas to help you achieve more of what matters to you – for yourself or your loved ones. Here I want to share one simple but powerful idea (with many applications in life) which could help any teenager make…

How not to choose a coach

And how to choose the right one

25th March 2019 No one cares what you know

How not to choose a coach

And how to choose the right one

25th March 2019

I guess we all use advisers or coaches for help – from time to time – in different areas of our lives. But how do you choose a good one?

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