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MM Lee’s comments about retirement has highlighted about the changing paradigm of retirement, in that it is increasingly becoming less of an automatic ritual upon reaching a pre-defined age and more of a lifestyle choice.
Traditionally, retirement is an age where one is able to stop working, collect a pension and to take time to smell [...]

The more I read about lifestyle design and think about how it applies to retirement, the more I realise that my paradigm on what constitutes retirement has fundamentally changed.
Previously, I used to think like what many of us did, that retirement was an age and it was not to work. But increasingly, my own research [...]

I have spent the long weekend shifting from my current place to my new place. It has been a tiring but interesting journey in finding out about managing change in financial freedom.
Changes in life are inevitable. As we progress along this journey towards financial freedom, things change all the time. Our financial situation, our health, [...]

This Channelnewsasia report “Younger Singaporeans Biggest Debt Defaulters” is cause for concern. The report shares how younger people in their 21-29 age group have a debt default rate of 7.16% versus 3% for all other age groups.
What this means is that more and more younger people are starting to live beyond their means. There are [...]

If you watch enough films such as “Armageddon” or “Deep Impact” that talk about meteorites hitting the earth and wiping out the human race, you will find the term ELE or extinction level event familiar.
It refers to disasters of such epic proportions that an entire species e.g. the dinosaurs, can be wiped out quickly.
Why am [...]