Challenging Your Comfort Zone is the Way to Changing Your Life and Money
Now that the conversation concerns comfort zones let me tell you about mine. My comfort zone is about: Staying in nice, clean hotels (usually four-star ones). Having privacy. Peace and quiet so I could sleep. Tasty but not spicy food (and chocolate). Moderate physical effort. Reading. Writing. About a…
You Need to Know the Best Days of the Week for Trading Forex
As you know, the Forex market is open for 24 hours a day, 5 days a week. Since it is a truly global market, it is always business hours. However, you’ve probably noticed that volatility isn’t always the same. There is greater volatility at specific times of specific days, which…
Eat for Less: Chicken Liver Onion Fried in Butter
You are either already thinking that this sounds delicious and you’d tried it this coming weekend or that it is absolutely ‘yak’ and reading further is a nausea inducing waste of time. If you belong to the former camp please go on reading; if you belong to the latter…
7 Rock-solid and Simple Rules of Jobs I wish I Knew When I Was 20
I wish I knew these rules of jobs when I was in my 20s. There were no jobs for us when we graduated in the 1980s. There are no jobs for us when we are a p*ssing distance away from retirement. I tell you, I was born on the…
6 Money Saving Myths That Should Be Ignored
There are many myths online about saving money and toxic beliefs about paying off debt that simply don’t work in real life – and with 18% of the American population not saving any money at all, it’s important to avoid these myths. Are you unknowingly preventing yourself from saving…
How to Take Responsibility for Your Financial Future
Editor’s note: Tonight’s post is by Lewis Humphries. Lewis is a finance and business blogger from the UK. He writes extensively for sites such as Career Addict and Life Hack, while his work has also featured on sites such as Business Insider, Investopedia and Money Crashers. He also has a…
Eat for Less: Fried Aubergine with Tomato Sauce
This was our favourite dish when we stayed with my grandmother. My sister and I will eat until our bellies were about to explode and my grandmother will look at us approvingly. You see, for her feeding people was one of the best things you could do for them….
What Is the Philosophy Of Your Financial Planning?
‘Change is the only constant in this world”! I know that is a favorite phrase with many and they often keep on touting it. Unfortunately, these are the same folks who never want to change their priorities and philosophy despite getting no expected benefits from their current financial strategy. Both…
10 Ways Your Friends Are Keeping You Broke
I love my friends. All four of them. I’ll do anything to help them in all ways I possibly could. And I sincerely hope – and believe – my friends will do the same for me. ‘But why does Maria have only four friends?’ – you may ask. Well, I…
6 Reasons Why You Should Invest in Peer-to-Peer Lending
Peer-to-peer lending is a form of crowdfunding. Crowdfunding is usually associated with rewards based crowdfunding, where you pre-buy a product, or equity crowdfunding, where you receive shares in a company. In contrast, peer-to-peer lending investors lend money by investing in loans and then receive a monthly repayment of capital and…
10 Reasons Not To Lend Money To Your Friends
Lending money to a friend in need may feel like the right thing to do, but things can get messy quickly. These are the ten top reasons why should never lend money to friends according to SurveyCompare. #1. You can’t afford it Unless you have no debts or financial worries…
You May be Killing Your Opportunity to Increase Your Income
“This blog post is completely useless. It either tells you to get a job to start a business.” This is the comment someone left on one of my posts about making more money. I beg your pardon? You want to make money but don’t want to work for it? And…