Monthly Archives: June 2009
Expanding your horizons towards financial freedom
Flickr image "Conference Hall" by shinemy
Have you attended any training, read a new book or learnt something new recently?
If you haven’t then, that’s a warning sign that your horizons may be stagnating and it could be slowing you down in your quest for financial freedom. Continue reading
How to protect yourself against financial scams
Flickr image "Bernie Madoff by Yan Pei-Ming at San Francisco Art Institute - 159" by Steve Rhodes
The key to achieving financial freedom is to learn how to distinguish between genuine investment opportunities as opposed to financial scams, frauds and schemes.
I’ve recently discovered the powerful content of PBS programmes which aims to produced documentaries that we can learn and be entertained at the same time.
This video reveals the Madoff Affair – the largest Ponzi scheme uncovered that spans generations. Many of the people cheated in the scam were not unsophisticated investors. Still, they were taken in by Bernie Madoff’s ability to generate consistently high returns over many years.
In order to grow yourself towards financial freedom, it’s helpful to learn from the mistakes of others so that you can better travel on this journey to be financially free.
Be well and prosper.
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Lifestyle design: what does your money do for you?
Flickr image "Airplane Wing 2005" by Zoagli
The more I read about life style design and about living your own life, the more I start to understand that money is just a means but not the ends of life.
Money is an enabler
Working for money enables you to do some of those things. But it can be a huge chain around your leg that also traps you into thinking you need to get stuck in the work-sleep-eat-work cycle that has been what we see “life” as.
Is your reason for living to make money? If it is, then accumulating massive amounts of dollars in your bank account or having a big home and a big car (with big mortgages/loans) is the way to go.
But for many of us, the reason for living goes beyond collecting “stuff” or things in our life. Continue reading
