Freelancing is becoming an increasingly obvious way to bring in a little (or a lot of) extra money. Most of us have the basic tools we need to work remotely. And technology has made freelancing a lot easier than it once was. There are countless sites and apps dedicated to…
I’ve been (re) reading Your Money Or Your Life, by Joe Dominguez and Vicki Robin, and I’m glad I did, as is often the case, when you re-read a book that you read at an earlier life stage. I’m a different person now, and I understand some of the concepts…
I’ve written before about the possibilities of retiring abroad and the best places to retire to stretch that expat pension, but it’s also possible to stretch your current salary by living somewhere completely different, as long as you can work remotely.
Just a couple of years ago, that wouldn’t have…
We often tend to think that a lack of college education will consign us to working low-paid service jobs for the rest of our lives, but that really doesn’t have to be the case. …
Often we try to save money and fail. But occasionally, we save money when we genuinely weren’t trying to. These decisions have impacted my monthly budget significantly, even though that wasn’t my intention when I made them. Occasionally you really do save money when you’re not trying to.
I moved…
You may well have heard of the Snowball Method and the Avalanche Method as strategies that can be used to pay off debt. With the Snowball method, you aim to pay off your smallest debt first, and with the Avalanche Method, you aim to pay off the debt with the…
Many of us hold beliefs about money that are so ingrained we rarely question them, and they can cost us a lot. Sometimes thousands, or even millions of dollars over a lifetime. Think before you buy into these common money beliefs.
This is the belief, present in almost all of…
As a (fairly) successful full-time freelancer, I have a process. Five simple steps I follow on a daily basis. These steps get my writing to my clients, my project managers at the agency I work for, or otherwise out into the world, every single day.
Here’s what that process looks…
I grew up a Christian, albeit a Roman Catholic. Catholic schools from 4 to 16. A convent boarding school from 9 to 16. Raised by nuns. Daily sermons. Daily Bible study. Twice daily formal prayer. Almost daily mass. So I kinda know what I’m talking about.
Today I don’t define…
The good people of the internet will tell you it’s easy to make money online. Statistically, they’re wrong. One of the most common ways you’ll be told you can easily profit with an “online business” has a less than 0.5% success rate, and is arguably not an actual business model.
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