5 Lessons I Learnt From Those Who Have Achieved Financial Freedom

Let's be honest, all of us want to be rich. I started my financial journey many years back by finding out how the rich manage their mone...

Being Smart or Having Luck In Life and Investing

Is it better to be born lucky or to be born smart? Veteran banker Wee Cho Yaw said that the late former deputy prime minister Goh Keng Swee ...

Getting Out Of The Comfort Zone For Better Financial Health

Humans are strange creatures, many of us have different personalities and interests but one thing we all like is this thing called comfort z...

Why Its Difficult To Have Happiness In A World Of Consumerism?

I have to admit, the title of this blog post sounds a little too depressing isn't it? Consumerism again, isn't it telling me not to ...

Do Not Focus On Investing If You Want To Be Rich

Over the years, I've received many emails from young readers that they want to learn how to start investing. Most will want to invest be...

What Really Is Contentment?

Last week, many of you may have read a Straits Times article about Dr Lee Wei Ling on " More Than Life Than The Pursuit of Happiness ...

The Why, What, How In Our Journey To Financial Freedom

It has been quite some time since I wrote about financial freedom and more specifically my journey towards it. Over the years, I realised th...

Does Money Make You Mean?

Money is the root of all evil? I came across a video on Facebook which shows an experiment that was conducted using the game of Monopoly to ...

Do You Like Your Life? - Appreciate What You Have

Just a few days ago, I saw a comic series on 9gag which to me was surprisingly quite meaningful. 9gag is known for its just for laughs mater...

Passion or Discipline? What Makes A Person Successful?

What makes a person successful? Some say its passion, some say its discipline. What do you think? Passion to me is when we love something we...

The Real Purpose Of Financial Freedom

Financial freedom is a word that's widely used and maybe misused. Some of us may think financial freedom is all about money. Why do we i...

Dream - Having a Purpose For Your Life

Throughout my past 2 years of blogging, I've received emails from several young people who want to take the first step to learn and chan...

Spending on Luxuries The FIRE Way

Leave the boring retirement topic behind for now. Life is meant to be enjoyed and we should live it to the fullest. Why save so much in our ...

How Delayed Gratification Can Determine Success or Failure?

The keys to success have finally been revealed by just one experiment done by psychologist Walter Mischel in the late 1960s to early 1970s. ...