Category Archives: Side Hustle

Market Volatility and Your Money

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You’d have to be living in a cave without reception to not know how expensive life has become or to understand how much less your hard-earned dollar is worth. Fuel is up, food is up, rent is up, rates are up … stress is up! And above all there is the need to keep up!

Saving is one thing, but when the hourly rate starts to barely scrape by keeping ones life and life style afloat something has to change. Of all times, the means to earn money and to make it work has never been more important.

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Fixer-Uppers & Income after Retirement.

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Seniors Can Start a Successful House-Flipping Business With This Guide

Written by Guest Author, Teresa Greenhill, from mentalhealthforseniors.com

House-flipping is a big industry these days as more people discover the advantages it offers, and it’s become a great way for older adults to earn income after retirement. It may seem like an overwhelming task to find the perfect home and renovate it to sell, and while it can be a big job, it mostly requires careful planning and research. Knowing how to find the right home, when to tackle DIY projects and when to let a pro take over, and how to fund the project can go a long way toward making this endeavor a success.

Take a look at a few of these helpful tips before getting started:

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Why is it so hard to start a business?

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Time and time again, I see questions pop up, either in my mail box from various forums or other sources from the public asking things along the lines of, ‘I want to start a business, what should I do?’ or ‘I’m thinking of wanting to start a business, what is something good to start?’

At this point aside from being perfectly legitimate questions, in my opinion, there is simply no good, simple or clear answer to them.

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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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