One 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:
Read MorePrivate solutions to public problems are always costly – Kellie’s Boss This post wouldn’t be up if I didn’t have a niece who recently joined Standard One. I’ve always been of the school of thought that private school is the best option and I would do all it takes to have my child(ren) attend the best private schools money can buy.
Read MoreA few months ago, I wrote about some wisdom my grandpa dispensed when I first started working. I’m ashamed to say I didn’t quite follow all the guidelines, and now 5 years later I will be seriously engaging with a SACCO. Very few people under 30 are members of a SACCO especially in this age where the work place is getting less and less informal….
Read MoreLooking through the blogosphere and Twitter world, one thing that stands out is the fact that most bloggers and twitterers are at that age where they’re searching for their life purpose, which I believe is a lifelong process. Once you have an idea of who you want to be ‘when you grow up’, then the greatest question becomes, how do you move from where you…
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Last month’s Book Club read was John C Maxwell’s 21 Irrefutable Laws Of Leadership. Fantastic book, I feel I read it too fast to meet the deadline, rereading it, then will do a review. The current read is Dr Spencer Johnson’s Who Moved My Cheese. This 39 pager has been on my ‘to read’ list for a really long time, and almost jumped for joy…
Read MoreMy Grandpa is headed to 90 years, was trained as a teacher, joined the Mau Mau freedom fighters, quit teaching to be a farmer and investor. He has no formal finance training, he doesn’t understand stocks analysis, doesn’t know anything about pension plans, real estate bubbles, or the stock market crash. This is what he had to say to me some 4 years ago about…
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