Author: the student

Phew, that was a lot. Well done. We’ve made it to the end. 🙂 There’s just one last thing I should mention. There are some types of knowledge where we simply need to learn the thing and it starts making a difference in our lives. That type of knowledge helps us to look at situations…… Continue reading Getting More Value from Your Money: Epilogue

Photo by Alex Kondratiev on Unsplash In a chemical reaction, a catalyst is a substance that increases the speed at which the reaction happens. The reaction can still happen without the catalyst, but you get much more powerful results when it is included. In this post, we will be discussing three catalysts to reduce our…… Continue reading Getting More Value from Your Money: Part 5 – Catalysts

On the surface, YNAB (The initials stand for “You Need A Budget”) looks like a budgeting website (with companion mobile app) which you can use to track your income and expenses. In actuality, YNAB is a method. It is a system that helps to reorganise your whole financial world without you realising it. You actually…… Continue reading Getting More Value from Your Money: Part 4 – The YNAB method

Thanks for staying with us, so far. Now we’re getting to the really good stuff. The previous two parts probably contained some things you may have heard before. However, it was necessary to go through them in detail and put them into proper context first. The reason is because, magic is quite risky! So, before…… Continue reading Getting More Value from Your Money: Part 3 – The power is yours

Photo by patricia serna on Unsplash This part may be the most emotionally difficult part for some of us. This is because there is a strong human instinct, to hide from the scary thing. It is obviously a useful instinct. After all scary things are, well…, scary! If we live in a jungle, or in…… Continue reading Getting more value from your money: Part 2 – Measure, measure, measure

Image by https://kalibrado.com To start, we need to clarify something. Being rich (financially wealthy) is about your income. How much money you have coming in. However, being broke is about your spending. How much money you have going out. It really has very little to do with income. Hmmm…, does this mean it is possible…… Continue reading Getting more value from your money: Part 1 – On Being Broke

My previous posts on this blog have been focused on more internal skills. Ways to improve how you see the world and how you see yourself. That’s because these are the foundational skills of any world changer. The better you can see, the better you can realize what you can do. This short series though,…… Continue reading Getting more value from your money: Prologue