Do you keep money aside to invest in yourself?

Self investing includes your image, skills, intelligence, communication, networks, health and fitness … and more.

A highly important and often over-looked area of self investment is financial education. 

What we learn in school is no longer ‘good enough’ for todays world.

As technology changes, so does education.  The kids of today may be computer literate but the majority cannot do simple arithmetic.

Make sure your financial education does not fall behind – a number of our self investment strategies rely on your ability to manage your finances effectively.

1.   Think Creatively / Problem Solve
2.   Negotiate to get what you want
3.  Communicate Effectively
4.   Effective Marketing Skills to bring an idea or concept to reality

So, where can you learn all these skills.

Check out our website for all the details.

All day … every day?

If not, is it because you don’t want to or because you can’t due to work commitments?

Would you prefer to have the choice of whether you watch them or not, solely based on whether you actually WANT to or not?

Start investing in your future now … earn an income from your investments.

In time, that choice may be yours to make!

Why is it that in wealthy, western countries like Australia, UK, United States, New Zealand, Canada and Western Europe, most people don’t make it? For example, the World Bank once considered Australia to be the wealthiest nation on the planet per capita.

Unfortunately, now the standard of living in Australia is decreasing for many rapidly, while a few are getting richer and richer.

Could you be one of the few getting richer?

With todays tight job market and businesses feeling the pinch, how safe is your job?

Many businesses are entering into mergers (or being taken over by) other businesses.  Is your workplace one of those affected?  Could it be?

Do you have a ‘back-up plan’ if the worst happens and you are entrenched (retired before you are ready)?

Perhaps today is the day to start thinking about your back-up plan!

In todays world we are all trying to save money or make more money.  Are you actually saving money or do you waste money on lattes?

Lattes, though enjoyable at the time will never put money in your bank account – unless you own a Starbucks, and even then not necessarily given recent events around Australia and New Zealand.

How many lattes do you buy a week, how much does that cost?  Think about investing those same funds into your financial education and then when your money is working for you that latte will taste even better .

We were looking for something to help us achieve the financial goals we had set ourselves.  Most of the time we were unsure as to exactly what our goals were.

The first step for us was to evaluate what we wanted out of life and where we wanted to be in 18 months, 5 years, 10 years and so on.

One of the best things we learnt from Jamie McIntyre was how much we actually needed to fulfill the goals we had now set ourselves – and it wasn’t nearly as much as we had imagined.

Our life-changing moment came when we realised that investing, using different strategies, would provide us with more income than we were currently working 48 weeks a year for.  And, we would have far more control over how we were spending valuable time.

We now understand that opportunities don’t come around all the time.  When a window opens you need to make the decision to jump through or not – some opportunities never come round again.  Be brave, take a chance and jump!

Do you think you need specific skills or education to be rich or achieve financial freedom?

Financial education is the most important gift you can give yourself in order to achieve financial freedom.

Financial education includes understanding money, saving, investing, creating income streams and emotional intelligence.

One or two of these will be unlikely to make you rich. However, if you combine them all, together with sound and tested strategies, you are far more likely to suceed.

Whatever it is that you are doing with your investments, it is quite likely that someone has done it before you. 

Those investors have probably been through the same highs and lows you may now be experiencing.

The key is to find that someone (or those someones) who have done what you are doing and whom you can learn from – their mistakes so as not to repeat them yourself, and their successes so you can model your strategies based on those.

There are many successful investors around who are willing to share their strategies (and some who are not) – you just need to look for them, approach them and respect that whatever time they are able to give you is valuable.

If property prices drop by the speculated 30%, property buyers may be in for a bargain.

Although rental charged by landlords rarely reduces when the rental market is under supplied and there are more people looking to rent than properties available, this could turn around if more people are able to purchase properties for investment purposes.

Less investors will use property as a quick money making investment, but more people may enter this market for long term investment holding strategies.