Tag Archives: financial freedom
Get Rich Slowly, Get Started Quickly
Getting rich slowly is the safest way. Getting rich slowly is the most reliable way. It may be the only way. Waiting to win the lottery is waiting to be chosen by a universe that’s indifferent to our existence. Day trading and other forms of gambling only makes the banks, bookies and brokers rich. Working at […]
The more runway you have, the safer you are
My Dad once learned how to fly a microlight, a flying contraption that looks like a bit like a hang glider attached to a lawnmower. It’s probably not the safest hobby you could choose. He learned to fly this thing at a rustic airstrip which, by all accounts, was just a grass field with a hedge […]
What if never working again was just The Hook?
I think of quitting work and never working again as “The Hook” of financial independence. It’s the thing that first captures people’s attention. How do we know this? Well, it’s always the thing that the mainstream media focus on when they feature financial independence. The Media know they have to lead with something that catches people’s […]
The Ten Commandments of Index Investing
Much of life is too complicated to be boiled down to just a few simple rules to follow. But it is possible to make investing clearer and simpler than the media and financial services industry have. So listen up heathens…here are the 10 commandments of simple low-cost equity investing. 1. Know thy purpose Money is […]
First things first : get out of debt
“I would like to ask some advice from you. I have recently came into a small windfall of money to the sum of £3K and wondered what best to do with it. Not a lot I know, but for me (on a low salary) its quite a bit. Initially my thoughts were to either: – […]
The Escape Artist 