I’ve long been suspect of those risk tolerance assessment questionnaires that financial advisors ask you to complete before signing off on an investment. Apparently, my suspicions are well-grounded...
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Control Your Financial Freedom Early Retirement Date
Have you ever wondered how you can control your retirement date? It's simple, really, to get to financial freedom. But how? Believe it or not, you have more control over your retirement, or...
Small Changes can Help Save Money and the Planet
Help Save the Planet and Save Money, Too! After watching Greta Thurnbergs’s Ted Talk, I felt I couldn’t just sit around waiting for someone else to save the planet. My professional goal is to help...
Financial Freedom: On Money and Happiness
Happiness, Money and Financial Freedom Research on happiness says that we are happier if we get experiences, not things. After announcing to my friends that I had reached peak stuff and was becoming...
11 Tips for Painless Saving
Tips for Painless Saving 1. Automate it. If it isn’t in your bank account you won’t miss it. 2. Celebrate a pay raise or bonus with a special night out. Then invest the rest of it automatically by...
6 Reasons Why the Rich Get Richer (this is a bit tongue in cheek)
1. The rich understand the Rule of 72, which tells you how quickly your money will double based on the interest rate. At a 10% rate of return on your investment, you double your money every 7 years....
Get to Financial Freedom Faster in a Used Car
On getting to financial freedom faster. I’m not into unnecessary suffering or struggle and I’m all about maximizing life for the greatest enjoyment, freedom and happiness so it bothers me to see so...
Eliminating Household Waste Saves Family 40%
How could eliminating household waste save 40%? Bea Johnson claims in her book, The Zero Waste Home, that she cut her family household living expenses by a whopping 40%. All from eliminating...
Should you Set Yourself on F.I.R.E? (Financial Independence Retire Early)
The FIRE (Financial Independence Retire Early) community is really gathering momentum in the USA and the UK and yet, there is still a strange amount of resistance to the notion that one might not...
Talane’s Top Ten Tips for Creating a Reserve of Money
Creating a reserve of money is easier than you may think. Read on to get my top ten tips to create a reserve of money. 1. Respect your money. Put your bills in order neatly into a good-looking...
How to Live Like a Millionaire without a Million
What is my secret? How can I enjoy such a magnificent lifestyle (two houses by the beach, international travel, house cleaner twice a week, massages...) without being a millionaire? How can we enjoy...
Forget frugality! There is an Easier Way to Financial Freedom
While doing research for my next book on money and financial freedom, I’ve been exploring various paths to financial freedom. And I bumped into Mr. Money Mustache (mrmoneymustache.com) along the...