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Financial freedom: it’s a mindset, really!


Flickr image Epiphany 3 by Felipe Venancio

Flickr image "Epiphany 3" by Felipe Venancio

The ultimate paradox of financial freedom has been revealed to me.

All this while, I’ve been reading, researching and writing about financial freedom. It took a recent episode of moving my net worth from one asset class to another that an epiphany struck me.

What is this ephiphany that Panzer encountered?

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Panzer’s Friday Roundup of Personal Finance Blogs


Posted: 25 Sep 2008 11:22 PM CDT

Panzer has managed to squeeze some time to bring you the Friday roundup of personal finance blogs. Find out what international bloggers in the US feel about the credit crisis and the abysmal performance of the US Stock Market. Continue reading

Panzerian Impressions on Practising Your Money or Your Life

This entry is part 7 of 8 in the series Your Money or Your Life

Posted: 25 Jun 2008 09:41 PM CDT

It’s coming close to the end of June 2008 and I’ve been recording my inflows and outflows of money dutifully with my Excel worksheet. 83% or so of June has gone and I’ve clocked up 80% outflows of my take-home pay. Scary indeed. This month’s expenditure was boosted by a one-off payment but still that’s life! :-) Continue reading

Be unreasonable to yourself in financial freedom


Posted: 17 Apr 2008 02:43 AM CDT


Flickr photo by Casetteject.

Are you unreasonable?

When was the last time you were unreasonable at work, in school or at home?

Did you insist on a certain way of doing things, demanded for more than your fair share and your rights or asked for more than was necessary?

Human beings have a capacity to be reasonable and unreasonable. Today’s post talks about how we can turn unreasonableness into an asset for us to grow in financial freedom. Continue reading

How to climb your personal mountain towards financial freedom


Posted: 15 Apr 2008 04:50 AM CDT


Flickr photo by Birdfreak.com.

Mountains are majestic features of nature. Tall, imposing and commanding. They represent the very heights to which the earth can stand out whilst still being of this earth.

Our journey towards financial freedom involves mountains. No, not the beautiful mountain of Grand Teton National Park Mountain Range in Wyoming but rather the personal mountains that each one of you have to climb in order to achieve your goal of being financially free. Continue reading