The recent break-downs in the Singapore Mass Rapid Transit system or MRT (especially the serious ones last Thursday and Saturday along the North-South line) offers us some lessons in our journey towards financial freedom.

Numerous bloggers have discussed the socio-political issues arising from the breakdowns and SMRT’s top management’s abysmal lack of timely response and updates to the commuters. This post will not go over the same issues.

What is more instructive is to learn about how we can avoid the pitfalls encountered by SMRT during this recent crisis.

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I was recently approached to speak at an event by the organisers in a neighbouring country simply because I had my professional resume posted up on Linkedin. The organisers had never met me before in person nor had they ever heard me speak at other events. But based partly on the strength of my online profile in Linkedin as well as my track record in speaking at specific events that I’ve listed on my public profile, they invited me to speak at their event.

I am fortunate that they spotted my profile and liked it enough to take the risk to invite me to speak at their event which was run successfully. But what does this little episode have to do with financial freedom?

The world is now open to us through the internet. There are more possibilities and routes towards financial freedom now compared to say, twenty years ago. It is only through networking and having online connections that we can leverage on this global interconnectivity to expand our minds towards possibilites for financial freedom.

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Learning Not to be Broke
by: rodloh