Make a ‘lucky bitch list’ — I’m not even sure how I stumbled across this article by money mentor Denise Duffield-Thomas, but I’m glad I did. She introduced me to the idea of a ‘Lucky Bitch List’. A list you make to remind yourself why you’re so lucky, even if you’re broke right now. You can…

That your audience will appreciate — Struggling with what to write your next blog post about? Pick one of these. ‘How to’ posts — Know how to do something useful? Teach others. ‘How I did it’ posts — Done something unexpected? Analyse the process and share the results. ‘Follow along’ posts — Don’t know how to…

You may have more options than you think — If you’re working the gig economy as a freelancer or contractor you’re probably missing out on a lot of the benefits employees take for granted, including an employer managed retirement savings plan. In fact, Forbes recently reported that 77% of freelancers claimed they would rely on their own savings (as…

If not before. — Congratulations! You’re pregnant. There’s so much to think about and plan for over the next nine months — and almost none of it is free, or even cheap. Finances are rarely the first thing we think about when we discover we’re expecting a baby, unless they’re already stretched, in which…

At least one of them might work for you too — First of all I’d like to qualify the whole concept of passive income. There is indeed such a thing as truly passive income. It’s what comes from investing in an asset and then having someone else manage that asset for you. …

Sometimes you end up somewhere you didn’t plan to be — and it’s still good — You’ve probably heard about the incredibly important relationship between productivity and goal-setting. The time management gurus will tell you goal-setting is a prerequisite for productivity, because you have to know what you want to produce before you can you produce it. This sounds like good sense, but is it? The…

Multi-tasking can cause a drop in IQ that’s equivalent to smoking marijuana or losing a night’s sleep — We’ve all been sold the idea that multi-tasking will save us time, and many of us have bought it. …

Nobody makes mistakes with something that important, right? — Your credit report is what lenders, banks and other businesses see when they check your credit score. It’s vitally important to us as consumers, so we tend to assume the information those lenders see is 100% correct and up-to-date. We may think it’s not necessary to check our credit report…

Because that’s deep work time — According to the gurus, you should do many things before 8 a.m. Cold shower. Meditation. Exercise. I don’t do those things. Here are some other things I don’t do. Check socials — it’s easy to get into the habit of checking every social site to see what happened overnight. But…