Category Archives: Mindset

Are you ready to be a Leader?

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Leadership is a term that gets thrown around a bit loosely nowadays. As one of the most popular topics [Historically] here, this post has been due for a re-write for quite some time, and when we throw in how many examples of leadership there are … and aren’t out there, this is a subject that long deserves to be revisited.

Firstly, leadership is a set of qualities that one possesses to some sort of varying degree … and whatever you might think about yourself, these qualities are not fixed or set in stone. They can be developed, nurtured … grown and improved.

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4 Ways to Protect your Trades

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Disclaimer: None of the following is legal or financial advice in anyway, and respective advice should be sought from an appropriate professional.

If you’re a retail trader, this situation might sound familiar to you. You’ve spent the time doing the analysis, crunching the numbers, making the decision to put your money to work … or maybe you got a hot tip. You know what the next meme stock will be and you’re just waiting for the price action to kick off, before you plough in!

However, you choose to trade, the one thing more important than being able to make money is making sure you don’t lose it. The next trade that you make should not be your last.

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Why the Rich Just Get Richer

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Disclaimer: None of the following is legal advice in anyway, and legal advice should be sought from a legal professional.

This one is a bit harder to start. Despite what I write about and the intention to educate [you] the reader about value of financial education and literacy, it has to be honestly said that what I promote comes from sources before me. Just like the skillset I promote in teaching for profit. What I know – I learnt from someone else.

To that end, I tend to keep my ear relatively close to the ground when it comes to learning what some of the ‘bigger’ players out there do when it comes to their money, lifestyles and success. After all, learning from those before us, is the ultimate shortcut, and education right?

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Setup for Life – What is Seed Money?

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Give it enough time, and everyone gets that warped dream of firing their boss, being financially independent, retiring early and living their life however they hell they like. There is a phrase that gets thrown around a lot. ‘ … Setup for life …’

It also goes with many other expressions …

Bigger contributions to the 401K or Superannuation will ‘Set you up for life.’ Winning the lottery can ‘set you up for life.’ That next high paying job will basically ‘Set you up for life.’ This is the deal that will ‘Set you up for life.’

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Why Nothing and No One is Safe

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2020 has been a challenging year to say the least, and above all there have been a number of realities that have been exposed, as well as the hard lessons to go with them.

Earlier in the year when whole states, and countries of the world initiated lockdowns and people went into isolation, very few people foresaw the shockwave that would circle the globe, and how the impact reached every single person.

Whether we call the COVID-19 Pandemic a black swan event or not, it exposed how fragile individual lives and livings are, and just how vulnerable we are. It proved that nothing and no one was safe.

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Mental Exhaustion & Burnout

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2020 has been a challenging year to say the least, and above all there have been a number of realities that have been exposed, as well as the hard lessons to go with them.

When restrictions about essential workers came into effect limiting the vast majority of workers from travelling and working at their places of employment – for many people the dream of working from home became an overnight reality.

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So … how is your relationship with risk?

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We may not think about it, but relationships go much further than the ones we have with the people around us. In fact some of the most important relationships are the ones we fail to realise even exist.

These are the same relationships that shape and dictate our behaviour through every day events and actions through to some of the biggest decisions of our lives.

One of the most important relationships that you may not even know you have is your relationship with ‘Risk’ – the relationship that determines when you ‘take a chance’ and ‘when you don’t’.

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Why Failure is so easy to accept

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(Photo by: Marvin Ng)

Why do we accept failure so easily?

Very few people are honest enough to openly talk about what they want. Social pressure and long held beliefs tell us that wanting more is greedy, but there is a silent underground of achievers out there who do talk about wanting more, and within this faction there are two camps. Those that ‘do’, and those that ‘talk!’

Those that do, not only achieve toward their goals, but many also do their best within reason to inspire and motivate those who talk to come across to the doing camp!

Failing is easy. Failing is comfortable and more often than not this is how the conversation goes!

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Why you have to be Asset Rich

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You can’t work your way to wealth

Despite the social mantra, you can’t work your way to wealth.

As long as you trade time for money, you’re part of a losing strategy and here is why.

Imagine starting your working life at the age of 20, and your first wage is worth $65,000.

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