Solving The Financial Decisions On Your Mind
On Thursday I conducted a webinar in which I addressed the top three types of financial decisions that are on your mind, as submitted in the recent survey. Almost all respondants said that they think about these things daily or a few times a week. That is a lot of time and energy consumed on [...]
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To Fix Interest Rates or Not?
With two interest rate rises already under our belts more people are asking me if they should be fixing their rates. Read on to discover the pros and cons and if fixing your interest rates may be right for you.
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The Three Fatal Financial Behaviours
Have you ever thought you are not getting as far ahead financially as you think you should, but are not sure why? Then maybe one or more of these three behaviours may be the cause.
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Take The Financial Pressure Down
Today is Stress Down Day, to raise funds for Lifeline. As part of their promotion of Stress Down Day Lifeline conducted a Newspoll to discover what was stressing Australians. The Newspoll found that two thirds of Australians are stressed about money, second only to being stressed about work. Does that include you? The Lifeline poll [...]
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Find Ten for Wealth
As I recently rode around a nearby lake with my daughter I noticed a Find Thirty logo painted on the pavement. The Find Thirty campaign encourages us to complete 30 minutes of physical activity each day as an investment in our physical health. Imagine the possibilities if we also found thirty minutes for wealth? Imagine [...]
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Four types of life insurance
Insurance is a tool to help protect your lifestyle and wealth creation if misfortune strikes. This article provides a brief overview of the four main types of personal risk insurance. Commonly these are referred to under the umbrella term of “life insurance” but they each serve distinct purposes. Think of each type as a different [...]
Raise kids to be entrepreneurs
The wealthiest people in the world are entrepreneurs – not passive investors in residential property (the backyard BBQ favourite.) In my experience of working with people many want to start their own business. But their traditional education and employee experience often has not given them the toolkit to succeed. In the video below Cameron Herold [...]
Save your Easter eggs for success
In a study conducted at Stanford University children were left in a room, each with a marshmallow, and given a choice of eating it then or fifteen minutes later, when they were promised a marshmallow as an extra reward for waiting. Imagine you are your five year old self – what would you do in [...]
A view of the tax system
A client just forwarded the following parable to me. Have a read and please let me know your reactions in the comments below. The original author is unknown. Tax cuts in terms everyone can understand Suppose that every day, ten men go out for dinner. The bill for all ten comes to $100. If they paid [...]
Manage your business brand on Facebook
If you’re already in business you know the importance of building and managing your brand. And you’ve probably heard of Facebook and Twitter. But have you started to harness the power of these communities to interact with your customers, both current and prospective? You may be thinking that since you already have a website for your business you don’t need a Facebook page. Well in this article you’ll discover why it may be handy to have both plus get access to a free guide to setting up your Facebook business page.
Update your Will when your cheating husband is given marching orders
Question: My client is distraught. After finding out that her husband’s personal assistant was taking the ‘personal’ part of the job literally, they are now divorced. I am a Western Australian accountant that wants to protect my already fragile client. I hear that divorce invalidates a Will. Should she make a new Will? What happens if she fails to make a new Will? Read the article for the answer…
Investing between the flags
ASIC, the Australian regulator of most financial services, has published this introductory book called “Investing Between the Flags: A Practical Guide to Investing“. If you are absolutely brand new to planning your money and investing then this book may be useful in enlightening you of concepts that are essential to understand. In a sense it [...]
Make money from niches
Recently I’ve written a little about my belief in profiting from your passion and that now is a great time to be able to do that. If you’re early in your journey of exploring this possibility then you may be wondering “why is now a good time?” and “how can I make money from it?” [...]
Protect your personal brand with your own domain name
Building your personal brand is essential to earning more whether you’re an employee or self-employed. If you haven’t heard that already then you will when you explore career and professional development, and I will be writing more articles about it too. (Check out “Crush It! Why now is the time to cash in on your [...]
Why now is the time to cash in on your passion
If you would love to be pursuing and profiting from your passion then I am excited to be sharing this book with you. I’ve just finished reading Crush It! by Gary Vaynercuk. Gary Vaynerchuk passionately believes that now is the time to be cashing in on your passion, and I wholeheartedly agree with him. In [...]
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