Your Financial Fitness Test Results

Congratulations if you did your financial fitness test. You are among the few who have a clue as to the state of your finances. That was a starter version but serves well to give you a snapshot as to how you are faring in managing your finances. What does the result mean? If you answered [...]

Your Financial Health Check Up

Typically, an adult should have a routine comprehensive medical check up once a year, to be sure everything is okay, and for early detection of medical conditions that can become deadly when not detected early. You also need a routine financial health check up, to see if you are heading in the direction of your [...]

The Asset Allocation Approach to Building a Solid Financial Foundation

Spending below your income is a fundamental law of financial freedom. If you break this law, you become broke yourself. However, it does not end with saving. You need to build a solid financial foundation with your savings, else you will misappropriate your savings and end up broke all the same. So the big question [...]

The Myth of A Financial Breakthrough

A lot of good folks are sitting pretty waiting for a financial breakthrough – a financial windfall which will solve all their money problems; that day when all their money problems will be over and all their prayers will be answered. That day may never come in that shape or form. The money will very [...]

How to Turn Your Finances Around

It is easy to feel trapped if your finances seem to be heading nowhere. When you are so used to be always broke a week or two after pay day, living from pay check to pay check or hand to mouth so to speak, you may be trapped in the thinking pattern that nothing is [...]

He Who Has the Gold Makes the Rules

Life is not fair. You don’t get what you think you deserve. You get what you negotiate for. If you negotiate from a position of weakness, you get what comes to you. He who has the gold makes the rules. He who is stronger dictates the terms of the settlement. If your life depends on [...]

Financial Freedom For Employees: Between the Devil and a Hard Place

This is not the best of times for employees worldwide. Folks are losing jobs in records numbers and unemployment figures are climbing to all time highs. Back here in Nigeria, Access Bank is in the news for throwing 1,500 Intercontinental Bank staff into the job market as a result of the successful acquisition of the [...]

Invest in Yourself II

When it comes to investing, the first thing that comes to most people’s mind is what to invest in, what to do with their money. The best way to know what to do with your money is to first invest in yourself. Investing in yourself does not sound romantic. Most people do not see the [...]

Warren Buffett’s Quotes on Investing

I was gathering quotes for my upcoming book and stumbled on lots of lovely quotes on investing by Warren Buffet. One interesting thing about these quotes is that if you really think about it, they are common sense. The sad reality is that when we are trying to invest our money, the quest for high [...]

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