I’ve had time off, of course I have, in the last three years but I haven’t had a proper holiday. What’s the difference?
Time off constitutes something I am coming to enjoy more and more, downtime in my own home. Its peaceful, I get to enjoy Augusts in the UK and I get lots of self-care [...]
I keep meaning to look up the precise date I discovered the Money Gym. It was way back in 2003, I think. Although I had been an accountant since 1977, and already sold my accountancy business of 20 years, I hadn’t learned how to make myself rich focussing, as I had been, on helping other [...]
Frank De Luca says that “living a rich life means living a heart-felt life marked by joy, ease and satisfaction”. He da man, that Frank, no idea who he is actually (sorry, Frank) but I found him on the web – where else? Have you measured your quotients for joy, ease and satisfaction recently? Go on, do it now, take five minutes while I share a bit more of Frank’s top wisdom with you.
The best and most efficient way for me to do less is to learn to say No more. This has been a challenge for me for untold decades, and I have written before that the main person to whom I learn to say No is myself. For I think I want to do all the things, or most of the things, I commit to and its only the sheer amount of them which makes some of them feel burdensome.
Yesterday, Nicola and I interviewed Anthony North who is Head of Fundraising for The Big Issue Foundation. He moved us both to tears more than once, often with his own passion for his job! I know I wound up feeling I wanted to do even more to support The Big Issue than we are already doing. We expect to be able to donate around £4,500 on 21st March from our Property Extravaganza day and Nicola ended up emailing him after the interview offering to
I’m not much of a one for playing games, despite my proud boast that my best friend from school invented one of the best-selling games of all time, Jenga. And I was her accountant at the time.
I did manage to invent lots of games for my niece and nephews to play on Christmas Day over the [...]
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