The World wants you to be typical– In a thousand ways it pulls at you. do not let it happen.
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Jerry Seinfeld once said, and l quote ”It’s a blessing in life to find the torture you’re comfortable with.” For him this is writing. Spending hours on hours, days on days, writing, thinking, and discovering. Doing the hard ”thing”. If it was easy we would all be doing it. My torture would have to be
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If you always do what you’ve done, you will always get what you’ve got. I love this quote. I feel it puts the onus on the individual to be the change they want to be. Whether it is making a tweak to your finances or adding a little fitness into your life or cutting back
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Reading is something I’ve been working on. Trying to improve the frequency and quality of the books l read. I’ve been listening to the Founders Podcast by David Senra. It’s incredible and his passion for learning is infectious. He reads various books and biographies as a way to learn about the history of entrepreneurship. I
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I was listening to a podcast recently and there was a question asked. How do you choose and what weight do you put on the different wants in life? The quote that was used for this question was, You can have anything you want in this life but you can’t have everything, you decide. The
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My car broke down recently, It was old and run down and sadly, it was picked up to go to the scrap yard. It’s time had come. In the past this would have been a difficult time for me. Trying to find the money to buy another car, the stress, the lost sleep, the anxiety.
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I am a runner and l run often. I try to target 30k a week. I saw a stat on my watch, saying that in the past year I’ve ran over 1000 kilometres and spent over 100 hours doing it. This didn’t happen over night and l have been running for about 6 years now.
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Wealth is a feeling, a mindset, a lifestyle and has more to do with the way we live our lives than the money in our accounts. Wealth, to me is about building meaningful relationships with the people you love. It’s about creating a life of freedom that when opportunities arise we can grab with both
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The ability to change our minds when the facts change is a wonderful skill to have, it may even be a superpower… This realisation that we don’t know everything and therefore must be willing to change our thinking or beliefs in the face of new information can give us an edge throughout our lives. Often
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Success in investing doesn’t correlate with IQ. Once you have ordinary intelligence, what you need is the temperament to control the urges that get people into trouble in investing. Warren Buffett Mr Buffett couldn’t be more right! Before l started investing, I thought all the jargon made the pundits sound intelligent, like investing was only
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In his book Atomic Habits, James Clear writes, happiness is simply the absence of desire. Happiness is not about achievement of pleasure, but about the lack of desire. It arrives when you have no urge to feel differently. Happiness is the state you enter when you no longer want to change your state. It’s very
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