Sunday, December 31, 2023

The hardest resolution is maybe not to have any resolution at all

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  I was reviewing how I was feeling last year at around the same time and found that I was pretty pessimistic about 2023, and I was essentia...
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Monday, December 25, 2023

Thoughts as I enter my final year of my 40s

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  Thanks for all the well-wishes coming in from social media.  I'm officially one more year from my 50s, and the latest health scare has...
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Thursday, December 21, 2023

Personal Update

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  As I'm turning 49 next week, it's a good time to update everyone about my life. a) Managing my Thyroid Eye Disease Last week, my l...
Thursday, December 14, 2023

More struggles to cap an awful year !

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  Soothsayers were not kidding when they said that this was not a good year for folks like me.  Three weeks ago, I started getting double vi...
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Saturday, December 09, 2023

Letter to Batch 32 of the Early Retirement Masterclass

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Dear Students of Batch 32, It's been a great honour and privilege to conduct a 5-Day Early Retirement Workshop for you. As I managed...
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Thursday, December 07, 2023

Short Update

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  I don't have a lot of time to be blogging this week because I'm conducting a course every night until the weekend.  I'm also n...
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Sunday, December 03, 2023

Regular Employment is Dangerous

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  I've got some genuinely crazy fans on the dividends groups. One guy was so crazy and affected by my statement that "regular emplo...
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Wednesday, November 29, 2023

When do you give up your dreams for pleasure?

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  Collectively as a movement, we are getting better at the nuts and bolts of retirement planning. We are getting close to being able to bala...
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Monday, November 27, 2023

But people do enjoy spending their money !

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In the rush to come up with sustainable ways to spend down your retirement assets, we often run into the problem where the thought leadershi...
Friday, November 24, 2023

Is there Right and Wrong in Personal Finance?

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As I continue to run into the rabbit hole of finance discussion groups on Telegram, I'm beginning to see a common phenomenon where usefu...
Sunday, November 19, 2023

Rich Dad, Poor Dad, or Ape dad?

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It's been quite a while since I had a conversation about Rich Dad, Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki. The book had an enormous influence on G...
Thursday, November 16, 2023

Are Financial Influencers spending too little for their own good?

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 "If you are spending, you are doing something wrong in this life" - Kyith Ng of Investment Moats fame I caught Kyith making these...
Saturday, November 11, 2023

Why distilling common sense is not enough for investors

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You might be wondering why I am reading so quickly. Sometime in September 2023, Amazon stopped selling The Economist on the Kindle and I...
Wednesday, November 08, 2023

The New China Playbook

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  If you have been a subscriber to The Economist , you will have noticed how biased their reporting is in China. Almost all the news feature...
Monday, November 06, 2023

The FIRE Journey requires cultivation of Inner Strength (neigong)

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  In case anyone is wondering Ji Yong's beloved epic Return of the Condor Heroes has just been translated into English and is available ...