The focus of wealth accumulation is most commonly on income generation and smart investing strategies. If you want to be serious about becoming wealthy though you also have to play great defence.
I’ve picked the term defence up from the classic book The Millionaire Next Door byThomas J. Stanley and William D. Danko. The book is [...]

Being original is something I’ve been thinking a lot about lately.
In an audiobook I am currently listening to, Break From The Pack, the author Oren Harari uses the memorable term “copycat economy” to describe the current state of the economy. This is state in which anything new, clever and original will inevitably be copied by [...]

I recently finished listening to this audiobook of this classic by Dale Carnegie. Great stuff. Some of the advice is so simple, and yet so effective. The following points caught my ear:
Remembering Names: the ability to remember a person’s name is a great skill to have. I have wanted to work on this for some [...]

Yesterday I spent a couple of hours outside tidying up the garden. Now this isn’t my ideal way to spend my Saturday, but the funny thing I actually quite enjoyed it. As someone who has an office job and spends quite a bit of his free time on the internet (in particular maintaining this blog!), [...]

Don’t enjoy swimming? Or just not a good swimmer? Well read on then. I have been going to the pool once or twice a week for the past 9 months. I am still not a particularly good swimmer, and I don’t find it easy to go to the pool, but I have discovered a number [...]

Recently I have realised the amazing difference it can make to approach life with a curious attitude.
I was listening to an audiobook called The Pleasure of Finding Things Out which is a collection of short-works by Richard Feynman. For those who haven’t heard of him, Feynman (1918-1988) is a Nobel-winning physicist who worked on the [...]