Mother Nature has moved on, she didn’t care whether you had the flashiest property in the neighbourhood, or the humblest home. She is a great leveller, and no matter what your financial situation, whether you are insured or not, there…
As many of you know, I live in Motueka in Tasman, an area that was badly hit by the rainstorm late last week. I was humbled by the number of friends and clients who reached out to myself and Mum,…
It doesn’t matter what area of life we are looking at; habits are what helps us get through the day without having to think through every step and process that we do. If we had to make every decision from…
I don’t know about you, but I have certainly had the daydream — what would I do if I won big on Lotto? A house right on the beach, one next door for visitors, and of course a mansion to…
Last week I talked about the stories we tell ourselves about money, and how we are all great novelists when we start to look at our results and the actions that we take to create them. Financial literacy is always…
We are all very good at telling ourselves stories to justify and rationalise the results that show up in life. You’re late to meet a friend for coffee ... it was the traffic; it was worse than usual, and you…
Before we start talking about your money plan working, you are probably wondering what on earth a money plan is! I intensely dislike the term budget. To me it conjures up ideas of having to cut your spending to the…
In last weeks article, I talked about stepping off the hedonic treadmill and how an important part of doing that was to stop comparing ourselves to the Jones’s and keeping up appearances. So, I thought this week we would delve a…
I made a very conscious decision to step off the Hedonic Treadmill when Mum and I decided to move to Motueka. It’s been just over a year since the move, much of which has been consumed with the nearly completed…
It’s with quite a bit of fanfare and excitement that the Government announced that teaching kids about money was going to be part of the curriculum. It is certainly needed and well overdue. Over the years there has been a lot of…