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Month: May 2016

Pension Saving as a Millennial

Pension Saving as a Millennial

Introduction  I wanted to focus on this topic given some rather worrying articles & findings which have been coming out in recent months on Millennials and there inability and unwillingness to saving for the future. Whilst many things for us millennials are much better than previous generations; smartphones, noise-cancelling headphones and Netflix to name a few, our prospects of having a comfortable well financed retirement is definitely not one of them. Millennials are being hit by an avalanche of things…

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Switching to Office 365

Switching to Office 365

Introduction  ‘The cloud’ is often seen as a big, scary and difficult to understand entirely. The aim of this piece is to explain why this isn’t the case by giving an overview of what Office 365 is and why it’s something you should consider adopting. I hope through explaining Office 365, including benefits, negatives and different uses for it, I’ll start to de-bunk some of the complexities of the cloud. Office 365 is the Microsoft cloud version of Office, which…

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Forming Habits & Routines

Forming Habits & Routines

  Introduction  I wonder if there is anybody in this world who always has 100% happiness in themselves? If you are such a person then please do get in contact, I’d love to speak to you and hear your secret. For the rest of us, there is always something we want to improve about ourselves. Admittedly the spectrum is large. Some people wish they could change everything about themselves almost constantly, others have that small niggling thing that sometimes gets…

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Converting to a Ketogenic Breakfast

Converting to a Ketogenic Breakfast

  Introduction I decided to make a more interesting New Years Resolution in 2016, in addition to the standard aim to go to the gym more, I wanted to do something a little different. What did I choose? To eat a ketogenic breakfast every work day of the week. I’m sure two questions have immediately popped into your mind, (1) What is a ketogenic breakfast? (2) Why choose a ketogenic breakfast? Let me take each in turn. At a fundamental…

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Book Review: Urijah Faber – The Laws of the Ring

Book Review: Urijah Faber – The Laws of the Ring

Summary This was something of a left field book choice for me, I’ve never been into any form of martial arts or wrestling , but had heard so much about the rise of MMA (Mixed Martial Arts) that I thought it was time to take a peak into a new world. I am not usually a fan of books by current athletes, often get the feeling they are a money spinner written by a ghost writer, and their best work doesn’t…

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Book Review: Robert Kiyosaki – Rich Dad, Poor Dad

Book Review: Robert Kiyosaki – Rich Dad, Poor Dad

  Summary: Robert Kitosaki is a very famous name in the world of self-made money and the massive machine around ‘how to get rich’, so this was one of the first books I came across when I starting looking. I didn’t really like the book or his writing style, he comes across rather condescending, also he has a tendency to write and write without actually giving the reader anything tangible to actually use. One of the main positive qualities is that…

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Paradox of Options

Paradox of Options

Introduction  It’s very common to hear people of an older generation say ‘I wish I had the options available to you now in my day’, in regards to a whole host of things including career paths, clothing brands and holiday destinations. But I disagree to an extent. I believe that our society has gone too far and we’re now saturated with options – and that having too many choices available to us can be detrimental to our happiness and our…

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Choosing a ‘Rewards’ Credit Card

Choosing a ‘Rewards’ Credit Card

  Introduction I was inspired to write this blog after I did my annual review of investments in 2015 and found out the best return on investment I got in 2015 was from my credit card! Admittedly this does say a lot about the state of the stock market in 2015, but it definitely doesn’t explain the full story. We are living in a world of unprecedented low interest rates, hitting the 7th year of 0.5% interest rates in the…

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Book Review: James Altucher – The Rich Employee

Book Review: James Altucher – The Rich Employee

  James Altucher is a no non-sense and direct author. He has earned it and lost it and earned it all over again and in this book he tells exactly how he did it. I choose this book because I think Altucher is seeing the future, whilst we all won’t be entrepreneurs in the future the existence of a life time career at one company is almost completely extinct. We all need to prepare for a world where we focus on…

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The Importance of Quotes

The Importance of Quotes

  Introduction  We all seem to be very interested & engaged with quotes and quoting people, and I may have an even greater interest than most. What percentage of people do you think have heard or recognise this quote: ‘I’m so fast that last night I turned off the light switch in my hotel room and was in bed before the room was dark.’ Do you think that percentage is higher than people who know who Muhammad Ali is? While…

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