Learning About Financial Freedon Should Start Early When I was a teenager, financial freedom was a term I’d barely heard of. I was taught to save my pennies, maybe open a savings account, but investing? That was something for adults. Fast-forward to today, and if you’re a teenager reading this, let me tell you: you’re […]
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HOW BOOKS ARE CHANGING MY LIFE I’ve admitted in another blog that I’m not a writer. Well, until recently I was also not a reader. My entire working life as an economics/business/humanities teacher, I’ve never really read many books. I’ve always had so much reading to do in my job that actually reading a whole
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What Should You Be Learning In Your Teens? If you’re currently in your teens, then you are going through a significant time in your life. As well as the usual challenges of school, relationships with parents and friends and just being a teenager, you might also be thinking about your future. You know that sometime
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Getting Started There are many finance-related terms that kids need to learn. Unfortunately, these are not often taught in school. I am often surprised when I learn how little some adults know about money and personal finance. Terms that some consider simple and crucial to understand such as interest, taxation and dividends are still a
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Who Are The Personal Finance Gurus? The world is full of people who are offering (or selling) advice. In the area of personal finance, there are numerous ‘experts’ or ‘finance gurus’ appearing on our television screens, tweeting on Twitter (x) and filling bookshelves with their own advice on how to improve your finances and grow
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Financial Wisdom From The Experts The world is full of wisdom if you just look and listen. We can read books and we can follow the lead of those who have gone before us and succeeded in the world of money. There is such a thing as a ‘millionaire mind’. Rich people think differently. They
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Introduction To The Personal Finance Books To Read In Your 20s If you’re currently in your 20’s, then you are going through a significant time in your life in terms of your finances and your future financial wellbeing. You are completely in control of your own financial destiny. I hope you are prepared. This article
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Modern Times Require Resourceful People One of the secrets to success is to be resourceful. Luckily we live in a very fortunate time with regard to the amount of information that is readily available for any person to access. The internet has opened up opportunities to watch YouTube videos, listen to podcasts and access blogs
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Things We Should Learn In School I believe that there are many things that we should learn in school. It’s disappointing that specific money-related and personal finance topics are still not being taught. As a Business Management teacher, I teach a unit on Accounts and Finance. However, this is quite different to teaching personal finance
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Introduction There have been a lot of books written about money. But does one stand out above all the rest? This article will put forward one candidate for the greatest money book of all time. It’s a bold claim, I know. But here we go! After watching an episode of Steven Bartlett’s ‘Diary Of A CEO’
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