How Tim Ferriss and skiing helped me break my financial boundaries
This morning we didn’t hurry. Yes, we are here to ski but we are also here to rest and enjoy life. Don’t know about you but queuing for the lift while my heart is still half asleep is not my idea of rest. This is why we don’t hurry…
Frugality or folly: frugal snacks of honey cookies
We all get peckish from time to time. I know I do and I also know that when this happens it is tempting to go out and buy some biscuits And eat the whole packet, of course, which is probably about 2.5 million calories (gosh, I like that number but…
Lifestyle Changes: Little Challenges for a Big Difference
I need to make some lifestyle changes. I’ve come to the point whereby I’ve set myself a number of challenges to slowly alter how I go about spending money and improving my health. It’s nothing too dramatic. I see it more as chomping at bite size chunks to achieve overall…
Five Ways to Keep Your Energy Bills Down this Winter
If you’re struggling to keep your everyday bank account coloured in that healthy black shade, then hearing that the big energy companies will increase the price of energy bills this year – some by more than 10% – probably didn’t come as welcome news. It doesn’t matter whether you have…
Four simple and effective rules of money management
For me January is a very confusing month. On the one hand, it is the time of beginnings and excitement. This is when I focus on ‘big’ plans and often find myself reflecting on my life and building dreams of where I wish to be. This is my ‘month of…
Who said New Year’s resolutions don’t work?
Almost everyone, really. At this very moment the internet is congested by articles and posts telling you that New Year’s resolutions don’t work, why they don’t work and how to make sure that they do work. I’m telling you they do work! But you’ll have to keep them simple and…
Annual Review 2013: Looking Forward
I love the end of the year; mainly because of the promise it carries for something new and different; and vecause it is the time when I do my annual review. The last days of the year are also the time when I carry out my annual review, consider…
Christmas Eve Greetings and Meet the New Member of Our Family
It is Christmas Eve and for me, as an Eastern Orthodox Bulgarian, this is when the celebrations really happen. It is a family thing; not a noisy, showy affair full of presents but a family meal. The meal consists of many vegetarian dishes: after all it is the last meal…
Three ways to minimise your waste and maximise your wealth
Do you know the first rule of the Game of Wealth? No, it isn’t ‘spend less than you earn’. It is what comes before that, which is: Minimise your waste to maximise your wealth! At least this is what I figured out when I first started transforming our finances and…
From ‘pinstripe’ to ‘baggy jumpers’: four steps every small business owner should consider
Couple of days ago I looked at what we have accomplished during 2013 as part of my annual review. We’ve done well but we are still largely ‘selling labour’ which is unlikely to get us where we wish to be: to have £2.5 million, or equivalent, by October 2018…
Frugality of Folly: healthy soups lunch for less than 20 pence (30 cents)?
Yep, it is possible. In fact, you can see the lunch I had today on the picture: homemade lentil soup and homemade pita bread. Total cost: 19 pence (28 cents) per person. Soups are probably one of the most nutrition efficient foods. Most soups work out at between 7 and…