Introduction I am an amateur investor and have been for a while under a year. I do not profess to being a master or having the perfect formulae to building your millions (sorry!) but I do think I’ve learnt some very important things in my short time investing and given the period of time I’ve been invested puts me in an excellent positon to give an honest & fresh perspective to help those first time investors take the plunge and get…
Introduction Ask the average person on the street, and I’m sure the majority would say that sugar is bad, getting that information into the sub-conscious has worked. What hasn’t worked it’s way into the average persons sub-conscious are either of the following: (1) carbohydrates are converted to glucose (sugar) in the body and eating refined carbohydrates (white bread, white rice etc) is basically eating sugar (2) fat is good for you, we need to consume more fat. These points…
Introduction Failure has become a dirty word in modern culture in at least the last decade, associated with many negative connotations. Parents seem to never want their children to fail at anything, companies shy aware from calling out when employees fail at something and individuals are actively discouraged from reviewing their failures and instead told to only focus on successes or strengths. I believe this is fundamentally wrong, therefore I want to explain why I see failing as a fundamental…
Introduction FinTech is a huge buzz word out in the world at the moment, and whilst a large number of people can tell you what it is, Financial Technology, far fewer really understand how FinTech is disrupting the Financial Services market and just how much the market could be transformed within such a short period of time. The aim of this piece is three-fold; (1) provide you with a brief but detailed overview of what FinTech really is and…
Introduction Wow, what an incredible past week. Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the last week you would have heard that the United Kingdom has voted to leave the European Union, commonly referred to as ‘Brexit’. Whilst I was a strong ‘Remain’ supporter, devastated by the vote of the British public on 23rd June, that is not the focus on this piece. In this post I want to focus on sharing the 5 best pieces of investing…
Introduction I find podcasts an excellent form of media as they’re easy to engage with, can be listened to almost anywhere and cover an extremely wide range of topics, in this post I want to highlight and explain which podcasts I think are best and most informative for Millennials. Podcasting compared to many other types of media: film, TV, radio etc. is still very new. There seems to be a consensus that the term started to be banded around in late 2004, and soon after very…
Introduction I have created a separate piece on my preferred ‘overall gym’ exercises. That piece focused on individuals looking to maximize lean muscle development and looking for the ‘cover page’ body. So if you are interested, check it out here: http://jablifestyle.net/2016/04/24/optimal-gym-exercises/. However, that isn’t what everyone is looking for in a gym routine, many people look to use the gym to supplement there training for the sports they love and/or compete in. This post will focus on the best gym…
I had heard very good things about John Le Carrè and his spy novels, my first real taste was watching the ‘Tinker, Tailor, Solider Spy’ film in 2011, but it wasn’t until I watched the recent BBC drama of ‘The Night Watchman’ that I was finally convicted I needed to read him. I did a bit of research and found that despite ‘The Spy Who Came in from the Cold’ (1963) not being his first novel, that was Call for…
Introduction Does anyone enjoy the sound of their alarm going off every morning? I’m sure there are people somewhere who do but I am sure they are either extremely lucky or positively crazy, for the rest of us it is just something we have to deal with too many days of the week. However, just because it is something we have to deal with, doesn’t mean we have to dread it, or sleep walk through the first 1 to 2…
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…