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How to Tell if You Have a Good Business Idea
So you’ve been reflecting on your current career path, or maybe just come out of university full of hope and dreams, and decided that you want to forge your path. Running a business can be an excellent way to create a legacy, gain independence, and create an asset for you to build over time. If…
Inspiration in Life – Your Childhood Links to Your Future
What gives you direction in life? Direction in life is something that I have struggled with from my teenage years to my mid-20s. How do you work out what you should be doing? Looking back on your childhood is always a great way of working out the elements in your life that will remain consistent.…
Breaking Down Wealth Inequality: The Challenges Faced by Younger Generations
These days, you often hear young folks griping about how tough life is, even though we’d think things should get easier with all the tech we have. But the reality is many of us are struggling—mentally and financially. In this blog, I want to dig into this problem from different angles and try to figure…
Alibaba – Undervalued, an Ailing Business, or both?
Chinese stocks have been put through the wringer recently, and Alibaba is no exception. This blog briefly explores Alibaba and whether it presents a fair value at this price. Please note that any information supplied on this website is for entertainment purposes only and should not be taken as financial advice. Any reader should do…
7 Essential Tips for Salsa – Leading the Way in Essex
Salsa dancing is a great way to improve your fitness levels, and mental acuity and build relationships with others. This blog will take you through the steps that I took to improve quickly. I still have a long way to go, but I’ve enjoyed the journey so far, and there are tips that I have…
How to Have Fun in Social Situations
Describe one positive change you have made in your life. Have you ever been to a party and felt like you just didn’t want to be there? Probably. I’ve always been a bit of an introvert. I enjoy pondering grand ideas and turning things over in my mind. I used to find crowded places difficult…
The Beast from Beauty and the Beast
Characters from books and films tend to have all kinds of problems and issues. Even characters with astounding qualities seem to go through unimaginable hardships, loss and pain. I think that the Beast (Adam) from Beauty and the Beast, is a brilliant character to be – if life were to be played out like the…
True Love is Not a Volcano
When I was younger, I had this idea that I would suddenly become infatuated with someone – that my destined princess would light a fire under me with her presence alone. Maybe we’d catch eyes and immediately know, or she’d spill a coffee on me as she carried her latte, apologise profusely and attempt to…
Dancing, Meditation, and Social Connections – Bye-Bye Negative Feelings
What strategies do you use to cope with negative feelings? I thought I’d tackle one of these daily prompts as it’s always fascinating to see what others do to cope with the weight of life. I have quite a few strategies that I have built up over the years, and it took a few minutes…
Does Your Coffee Habit Destroy Your Ability to Build Wealth?
At this very moment, I’m ordering my coffee from Black Sheep Coffee in Chelmsford – double-caffeine and everything. It has become the in-vogue thing to do amongst financial social media stars such as Kevin O’Leary, Graham Stephan, etc, to comment on the cost of coffee and how detrimental it is to wealth-building. This article will…
What is Money?
This article asks the all-important question: “What is money?” As my website is called Money Meets Life, this concept of money must be examined a little. When I was a child, I was fairly certain that money was the same thing as the cash that I held in my hands. We really take the existence…
9 Ways to Invest like Warren Buffett
This article reveals 9 ways to invest like Warren Buffett, beat the market, and become wealthy. In my path to wealth (I’m still journeying), Warren Buffett has influenced my understanding of investing. Start Early Starting as early as possible in your investment journey is critical. When you look back on Warren Buffett’s investment timeline, it’s…
7 Easy Ways to Budget Like a Boss
Introduction – Why Budget? Budgeting is a fundamental aspect of personal finance management. This article shows you seven effective ways to budget. A lot of people focus on the income and wealth-building sides, but budgeting is an essential component of building your wealth. 1 in 4 people in the UK with an income of over…
13 Most Powerful Stoic Quotes
In this article, I will give you 13 powerful stoic quotes that will make your life significantly better if you understand their message and take them to heart. These quotations have been specifically selected as I think they offer the most value. I’ve recently been reading Ryan Holiday’s Daily Stoic, and I really enjoy the…
19 Things you Should do Everyday
Here is a list of 19 things that you can do every day, which can make your life better. Some of them may surprise you! If I were to do all of these things in one day, I know that I would be delighted on a personal and professional level. I’ve also included some suggested…
Owning a Business is a Terrible Idea
Why would I say starting a business is a terrible idea? Don’t you own two businesses? Yes. But hear me out. Owning a business is hard work, stressful, and not the easy path to wealth – although it may be the quickest. Just to note that certainly one of the best books on this subject…
Masculinity Under Siege: Male Identity Crisis
Masculinity is under siege, and this isn’t a joke. Although some articles have surfaced online that make light of male issues, I think will present issues which men face today and address them in detail. I will also make some suggestions for what we can do to address these issues. In no way am I…
Why Money Attracts Money
“Money attracts money”. In my youth, my mom shared the idea with me, explaining how she could earn 4% annually by investing £3000 for three years. Even in the Bible it states, “For to everyone who has will more be given, and he will have abundance; but from him who has not, even what he…
Leaving London: 5 Reasons why I Abandoned the Big City
London is a fantastic place to live if you have the money. It is vibrant, diverse, and filled with history. But is London life all it’s cracked up to be? Samuel Johnson famously said: “When a man is tired of London he is tired of life”. In many ways, I agree with him. When I…
UK High Street in Crisis: Pushed to the Brink
The UK high street is in danger of decline, and has been for a while. This blog will go into the ways we can prevent its decline. As a business owner, I have personally witnessed how small enterprises navigate the challenges posed by a swiftly-evolving world, and the UK high street is certainly not immune…
How to Fight Imposter Syndrome
What is Imposter Syndrome? You might have heard the term, “imposter syndrome” before, but what does it mean? How can you conquer these feelings? Imposter syndrome is the feeling that we get when we feel incompetent in a field. “I have written 11 books, but each time I think, ‘uh oh, they’re going to find out…
AI Threat to Human Value
AI (Artificial Intelligence) is the defining set of technologies for next decade. This blog will show how AI affects our human value, and how we will cope with this shift. AI has and will revolutionise industries, shaping innovation, and fundamentally transform the way we live, work, and interact with the world around us. The scary…
Quick Beginner’s Guide (Investment Portfolios)
This quick beginner’s guide to building an investment portfolio will help take you from a novice investor with little to no experience to a confident and informed wealth builder. My friends suggested that I write a beginner’s guide to help them get started, so here it is. What is an Investment Portfolio? An investment portfolio…
Setting Goals (2024)
In this blog, I won’t only just name my goals. I will also provide context and specific actions I will take to set goals and achieve them. I will also provide a framework which anyone can use to form their own goals. Each of these goals are personal rather than explicitly financial. I do think,…
We take Liberal Democracy for Granted!
Liberal democracy is something that, in the West, is taken to be a natural resting point politically. A true liberal democracy is one where the population at large has some control over the party that gets elected. Furthermore, it is a where there are checks and balances in place where no one party or leader…
Maximise the Manly in Every Man
This blog details the many routines that I go through on a weekly basis to maximise my manly sides. I will show you how I keep myself well-groomed, as attractive as possible, and healthy. As I am budget-conscious whenever I do most things, this blog should give you some affordable ways to elevate your life.…
Why I Live Like A Poor Person
This blog will explore my reasons for going down the path of frugality. I will also address the deep reasons why I have gone down this path, as well the things that I am actually willing to spend money on.
Stoic Life Philosophy of Epictetus
Background into Epictetus Epictetus. Aside from having the word “epic”, literally embedded into his name, the stoic life philosophy of Epictetus is something which I have seen dotted around the internet on social media and beyond. Why have the words of a slave who lived in the first century AD captured our imagination so? Does…
Buffett Indicator is Flashing Red
The Buffett Indicator The Buffett indicator is a metric that Warren Buffett proposed in 2001, which takes the market cap of the index and divides it by the annual GDP. Please note that any information supplied on this website is for entertainment purposes only and should not be taken as financial advice. Any reader should…
My Money Journey… So Far
At times, I must admit I had a bit of envy for those classmates who would be able to wear designer clothes, but, reflecting back upon it now, she was always right.
Having a Healthy Relationship with Money
However, if you were to delve into the deep truth of why you want that handbag, you may discover that there is a dark reality beneath the surface and if were being completely honest with yourself..
5 Money Discussions to have with your Partner
Engaging in money discussions, though challenging, offers significant rewards in strengthening relationships.
Dividends to Live Your Best Life
As Coke Cola was able to raise their dividend every year, Buffett’s yield-on-cost on Coke is 57% . For me, this is one of the most exciting prospects in dividend investing.
Charlie Munger Rest in Peace
“You can learn a lot from dead people. Read of the deceased you admire and detest.”
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