How to Budget & Release Frustrations About not Having Enough Money

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Budgeting

For the first time in my life, I have an investment portfolio and am focusing my attention on growing this portfolio.

Getting to this point has been a journey of emotional ups and downs.

One of the emotions I struggled with for years was frustration and anger about money and not having enough money to buy food, let alone save or invest.

Learning how to budget and plan my finances was one of the ways I saved money. Even now, a budget helps me see where my money is going and to keep track of all my finances.

How To Start Investing In the Stock Market

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Passive income and retirement

Paul Samuelson once said, “Investing should be more like watching paint dry or watching grass grow. If you want excitement, take $800 and go to Las Vegas.”

This quote explains it all - time is an important part of investments. 

The longer your investment period, the higher your return.

For as long as I can remember, I’ve wanted to understand how I can start investing in the stock market or shares.

I started reading books on shares and share trading in high school but it seemed too expensive to start investing.

Releasing Resistance & The Fear of Success

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Starting and scaling your business

What if your vision scares the living Jesus out of you?

What if the thought of succeeding and making  your dreams a reality makes you want to run for the hills?

Congratulations!

You’re moving out of your comfort zone and it's scary!

I often struggle with my desire to self-sabotage when I look at my life and the goals I've yet to achieve.

When I’m writing the vision, I’m excited and happy, but when it comes time to taking action, I can sometimes freeze and spend days, even weeks, procrastinating.

How to Save Money & Create an Emergency Fund

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Budgeting

One of the things I’m still battling with on my financial journey is building an emergency savings fund with 6 months’ salary in it.

My focus thet last few years was to pay off debt and start building an investment portfolio, which I’ve done really well.

But the emergency fund?

Not going so well at all.

I don’t consider my investments in endowments and unit trusts, emergency funds. To me they're long term investments, for other things.

How to Easily Save For Retirement

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Passive income and retirement

For the last 2 years I've been blogging about paying off debt and saving, but now that my debts are all paid up, I want to focus more on creating creating wealthy, building an investment portfolio  and living with purpose.

This week we launch #WealthyMoneyTV, which is a personal finance/ emotional intelligence talk show where I interview a bunch of experts to help us all understand how to create wealth.

In this week's show I talk to Chenine Gouws, my financial advisor about saving for retirement.