The book that I read this time for the Personal Finance section of Book Club was very different. In all honesty, The Year of Less by Cait Flanders is more a memoir than a Personal Finance book. But the book starts on a Personal Finance premise and when you look through the really personal details […]
Breaking the myth of Overnight Success
How many times have you discussed people and their success with your own peer groups? Enough number of times you must have marveled at the idea of somebody becoming an overnight success. You yourself might have wished that you could wake up the next morning and suddenly be famous. Is overnight success even possible […]
Complete Guide to Asset Allocation
You should have a strategic asset allocation mix that assumes that you don’t know what the future is going to hold. -Ray Dalio (American billionaire, hedge fund manager, philanthropist) The one thing I have learned since starting on this Personal Finance journey is the fact that no one can predict the future, be […]
The Success Principles – Jack Canfield with Janet Switzer
For a long time, I have looked at with disdain towards non-fiction. When it came to books talking about motivation or success, I used to bundle them in my head as completer balderdash. Thankfully, the epiphany happened and my brain opened up to receive this wisdom better. This led me to the popular book “The […]
Ditch The Paycheck To Paycheck Mentality
I have now been a personal finance enthusiast for over a year if I take into account from the time I started preparing to become a Certified Financial Planner. One of the concepts that popped up a lot and resonated with me was the idea of paycheck to paycheck mentality and how it ends up […]
7 Reasons Why You Must Be Bullet Journaling
For a long time, one of the phrases that was echoing all around me was – bullet journal. While I had been journaling off and on and found writing cathartic, this did not look in any way similar to what I associated with a journal. However, having heard enough people rave about the benefits […]
Your Money or Your Life: Vicki Robin
One of the books I have heard a lot of people rave about in the PF blogosphere has to be Vicki Robins’ Your Money or Your Life which was recently updated by the author. When so many people have good things to say about a book, my first instinct is to get a copy and […]
The Perils of Social Media Addiction
Have you ever wondered how many times you check your social media feeds? How many social media networks are you on, anyway? Is that the first thing you do every morning and before sleeping at night? Are you able to talk to a person in real life without peeking at your phone to check […]
Complete Guide to Capital Gains Tax
Like a lot of naïve people, I did not invest at all in my first five working years. Even when I did start investing, there were quite a few lessons I learned on my way. When you do start investing, one of the things you need to know about is the concept of Capital […]
Book Club – Deep Work (Part 2)
In this post, I will continue to talk about one of the most enriching productivity books that I have read in a long time – Deep Work by Cal Newport. It would be helpful to read the first part in order to relate to this post better. While Rule #1, gave us 6 […]