Dare To Dream In 2022
Happy New Year and welcome to 2022!
Some thoughts and perspectives on making the next year (and decade) your best one yet!
Personal Development
Eight Reasons You Will Never Reach Financial Independence
To say that the financial independence movement has gone mainstream would be an understatement.
Podcasts, Youtube videos, Twitter “experts”, and more blogs that one could (or want to) ever keep track of.
Heck, they even made a…
Not Fade Away
By the time you are reading this post, I will have finished packing for our summer beach holiday.
In a family tradition, we always take two weeks off at some point in August.
And in a break from tradition, today’s post has nothing to do with money, investing, or financial independence.
Instead…
How To Get Ahead In Life
Look around and you will struggle to find a person who doesn’t want to get ahead in life.
But what does “getting ahead” really mean? And how can you go about it?
The Best Strategy For Winning At Life
Every year, without exception, I see the exact same situation playing out at work.
Bright, motivated, and hard-working guys and girls begin their careers as investment banking analysts.
Almost immediately, the most ambitious and foresightful of the bunch
The Beauty (And Danger) Of Compounding
You will have noticed that over the past few weeks, I have really dialed back on the number of “quantitative” posts. Gone are the rates of return, expected probabilities, and asset class comparisons. There’s plenty of time for those topics throughout the year. Instead, I like to use December downtime to reflect on everything that …
New Year Resolutions – Five Strategies That Work
When it comes to New Year resolutions, so many people fail at keeping them that it’s a surprise that anyone still bothers to make them in the first place. According to research, 80% of people give up on their New Year resolutions by February.
Losing Control
Last Friday was a long day for me. The first Zoom call of the day started at 7 am, courtesy of a demanding continental client with a penchant for early starts. A year ago, my secretary would have punted the meeting by a couple of weeks, with the convenient excuse of flights and conflicting meetings …