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Month: May 2017

How to Retire Early as a Millennial – Part 2

How to Retire Early as a Millennial – Part 2

PLEASE NOTE: If you haven’t read Part 1 of this piece I recommend you start with that, before reading on, you can find it here. Calculating how to reach your Target income Making calculations years into the future is far from easy, for starters we might all be retired in 30 years with Artificial Intelligence (AI) and robots doing all our work for us. Even without considering massive changes like that, making calculations is harder, a couple of percentage differences in…

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How to Retire Early as a Millennial – Part 1

How to Retire Early as a Millennial – Part 1

Introduction Retirement, it is something which millennials often think is too far away to think or worry about. However, I think about it more than your average millennial because I want to be able to retire early. If you are a millennial in the UK the chances are you won’t be able to receive your national pension until you are at least 70, given most people would have started full time work between the ages of 18 & 22, that…

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Lisbon & Sintra Travel Tips

Lisbon & Sintra Travel Tips

Introduction My girlfriend and I enjoyed an early summer trip to Lisbon & Sintra, in Portugal, over the first bank holiday weekend in May 2017. I’m sharing our itinerary and top tips in case anyone is planning to visit or is inspired to go there after reading about the city and its top attractions. Overall, we loved Lisbon and it was easy to see why it’s grown, and continues to grow, hugely in popularity. If you are looking for other…

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Book Review: Marcus Aurelius – Meditations

Book Review: Marcus Aurelius – Meditations

My Perspective There are few more famous books that Marcus Aurelius’ ‘Mediations’, it was written as a series of spiritual exercises and the common belief was that it would never to be published. For me it is the inner dialogue of an extremely powerful and rich man – the Emperor of Rome –  trying to fight the same battles that we all face on a daily basis: how to be a better person, how to show courage, be just, be clever and…

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