Reintroducing a classic blog trope… This was a regular update I used to blog, through 2016 when I left Shirlaws business coaching to set up Real Estate Grow (what eventually became #RealReach). It was an opportunity for me to share progress towards the Personal Vision I had redesigned at the start of that year. The...
Source: Canstar Finance. by Canstar Finance This is a decade where financial decisions can become more complex and costly as you may travel through some common rites of passage, like career changes, getting married, starting a family and buying your own home… International business coach Jacob Aldridge says, ““Our life plateaued, comfortably, the year we...
No, it’s not what you think… Based on the title of this post, you may be thinking that I’ve taken up driving for Uber – adding another income stream to the family trust, possibly for the sole purpose of buying an $800 bottle of red wine. If you’ve ever seen me drive, be glad that...
For some people, this is going to be irrelevant, but if you’re in the process of building or reviewing your personal budget then our own example may help. Because we have a mortgage offset account, we’re incentivised to keep all our excess cash in one place. So over the years, we’ve built our own spreadsheet...
Here in Australia, high school graduates are about to be released upon ‘the real world’. Incredibly, all of today’s grads were born after I myself graduated from high school in 1998. So here are some thoughts from my ‘lifetime’ of experience post-high school. Life isn’t fair. BUT you have the opportunity to make it unfair in...
Approach life like a game of chess: 1) Have a firm end goal (like killing the opponent’s King) 2) Have some non negotiables about what’s important in your world (like protecting your own King). Understand that achieving point 1 is impossible if you sacrifice point 2 3) Know that sacrifices must be made – the...
