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Improving My Posture

Improving My Posture

Introduction Common behaviour towards posture isn’t too dissimilar to common behaviour towards pensions. Towards both, individuals often fail to invest suitably in them while they are young, they fail to compound the benefits and don’t take corrective action early or invest sufficiently, and they suffer later in life as a result. Under-investing in a pension when young can lead to you having to work until past statutory retirement age and/ or having insufficient funds to live the life you’d like…

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My Personal Creed & Using it to Create my Internal Scorecard

My Personal Creed & Using it to Create my Internal Scorecard

Introduction The term ‘Personal Creed’ is one that I’ve been loosely aware of for a while, and not just because it reminds me of ‘Assassin’s Creed’, although my memory isn’t good enough to recall who I first heard use it. The term ‘Internal Scorecard’ is most associated with Warren Buffett & Charlie Munger, and I was initially introduced to the term through the work of Shane Parish at Farnam Street. Other terms which you may have heard of which are…

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Favourite Quotes Part 1 – To Live A Good Life

Favourite Quotes Part 1 – To Live A Good Life

Introduction I’ve loved quotes for a long time and have been collecting quotes that have made an impression on me for at least the last 5 years. I agree with Adam Grant when he said of quotes and aphorisms, “they’re memorable and They give meaning and direction. They spur new thoughts or new actions—or remind us to revisit old ones.” The quotes we love and remember are those that we feel speak directly to us, they transcend the individual context in…

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Reviewing 2017 & Planning 2018

Reviewing 2017 & Planning 2018

  Introduction  This won’t be yet another New Year’s Resolution blog post, I’m sure your sick of reading or hearing about them by now.   I don’t like making New Year’s Resolutions, primarily because it often feels like people make them purely to break them! Often people know they need to make a change but don’t really want to, therefore proclaim to everyone that it will be their New Year’s Resolution, so that no-one is surprised – and the individual isn’t disappointed – when they give…

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 Podcasts: Why & When

 Podcasts: Why & When

Introduction  The aim of this blog is to explain the three reasons why I think podcasts are so useful and why everyone should listen to them. In short these are: The fact they are free They don’t require a constant internet connection You get a large spectrum of content After covering each of these in more detail, I’ll explain when I listen to podcasts and why, showing you how they can easily be fitted into your busy day. Back in…

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Power of Social Accountability

Power of Social Accountability

Introduction Social accountability has been a significant buzzword in the blogosphere in recent months and years, yet it remains a massively encompassing topic and can take on a many different means. The aim of this piece is to focus on why social accountability can be good for personal growth and help you reach the targets you’ve been struggling over for a long time, I’ll also touch upon how it can help society improve at a macro-level. I should start by…

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