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Posted on: 11th Apr 2022

Making space for the important stuff

“When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and brings joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.” Jean Shinoda Bolen There’s a great scene in the BBC’s Sherlock Holmes when he enters his mind palace, accessing stored memories to help him solve a case. According to Holmes, […]
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Posted on: 4th Apr 2022

It’s not just about the hustle

“Until you value yourself, you won’t value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.” M. Scott Peck We work with people who are in various stages of their journey towards financial independence, and we often see how heavily finance influences our mindset – regardless of how much we […]
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Posted on: 28th Mar 2022

What are the best money emotions?

“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.” – Helen Keller If we’ve learned anything in our years of working with clients, the markets, and our own personal lives, it’s that we cannot avoid emotions; they need to be managed. The […]
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Posted on: 21st Mar 2022

Do you have to, or do you want to?

It’s easy for us to build a life that is filled with obligations. At first, new responsibilities can fill us with pride because we feel like we’re making a difference, growing and being dependable. And, in a growth phase, these are all true – but over the long term, if they’re not linked to our […]
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Posted on: 14th Mar 2022

Emotions and our investment choices

“And every day, the world will drag you by the hand, yelling, “This is important! And this is important! And this is important! You need to worry about this! And this! And this!” And each day, it’s up to you to yank your hand back, put it on your heart and say, “No. This is […]
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Posted on: 7th Mar 2022

Remember why

“When the winds of change blow, some people build walls, and others build windmills.” Chinese Proverb Change and transformation can cause two reactions in us, either we will try to stop or resist the change, or we will see how we can use it for our advantage and growth. What’s certain is that what we […]
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Posted on: 28th Feb 2022

Social intelligence: beyond ourselves

“If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” African Proverb In 2006, just 11 years after his international phenomenon “Emotional Intelligence — Why it can matter more than IQ”, Daniel Goleman wrote “Social Intelligence: The New Science of Human Relationships”, a groundbreaking synthesis of the latest findings […]
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Posted on: 21st Feb 2022

Driving manual or automatic

Some people love driving; others hate it. Some like to drive the car, whilst others prefer to be driven. Some go for a manual car, and others go for an automatic. Driving can be about experiencing the views, the silence, the confinement, the speed. But, it can also be about getting from one place to […]
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Posted on: 14th Feb 2022

Should meetings matter less?

In a recent LinkedIn post, our team read about a senior manager at one of our local banks who was raving about being able to work from home and qualified the statement with, “Of course, I’ve been in back-to-back meetings since 8am.” Somehow, it seems like society has created the perception that meetings equal productivity, […]
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Posted on: 7th Feb 2022

The investment account that helps our habits

There are seasons in our life when saving and investing (two different skills) are easy, and then there are times when they can be really challenging. An obstacle that rears its head in these tighter seasons is that money decisions are largely based on habits that rely on repetitive behaviour. Some of us begin our […]
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