Enough is enough: decluttering our house
"If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then,is an empty desk a sign?" Albert Einstein I fell for this one for a long time. I laughed about the clutter filling our house, I analysed it, theorised it and it has been annoying [...] Continue Reading...
Take charge of your finances: focus on ‘wants’ rather than ‘needs’
Our financial destiny depends not on how much we earn or how much we spend; it depends on whether we are in charge of our finances and how well we control them. Saying that there is nothing wrong with spending - quite the reverse, it is one of the inevitabilities [...] Continue Reading...
Attitudes to life and money: about the ants and birds
This morning I was stretched on my bed, enjoying the last days of relative leisure in our home in Sofia - in couple of days we will be heading back to Manchester and my life is going to take a sharp turn towards regimented self-discipline (ok, motivation), long working days [...] Continue Reading...
About the importance of spotting opportunities and acting on them
Today I was sitting here, thinking that my sabbatical is almost coming to an end – I have only about a month left of a twelve month study leave. And, yes, I do realise how lucky I am to work at a university that still grants study leave. Looking at [...] Continue Reading...
The Money Principle Brain Teaser: what would you say if someone didn’t pass a hurdle?
Today is a Brain Teaser day but I have decided to ask a question that is somewhat different from the ones I have been asking. Till now I asked questions that helped us get to know each other a bit better and that also got us to know ourselves. Today [...] Continue Reading...
The Money Principle Brain Teaser: what are you reading at the moment?
We just arrived back from Sofia and we are at home safe and sound. Our time away was a great success: we worked a bit (meaning that I didn’t do 10-12 hour days but worked only 6 hours per day and took five days completely off); we played with our [...] Continue Reading...
The Money Principle Brainteaser: what gives you most pleasure in life?
The question for today's Brain Teaser arose from three developments in my life. First, for sometime now I have been feeling the pressures of everyday life and work. This is in part because of over-working and in part because of having to approach a really important and complex piece of [...] Continue Reading...
100 words on the questions we ask
When deciding on action and considering our future we often ask ‘what’ questions. ‘What shall I do?’; ‘What will happen?’; ‘What does the future hold?’ Asking these questions we may forget that, with very few exceptions, we can do anything, anything could happen and the future is a mystery. Asking [...] Continue Reading...
The Money Principle Brain Teaser: what are your fears for the year ahead?
Last week I asked about hopes for the year ahead and shared mine. This week, I would like to turn and face some demons – these are the incapacitating fears that paralyse us and prevent us from being all that we could be. Facing our fears head [...] Continue Reading...
The Money Principle Brain Teaser: what are your hopes for the year ahead?
This past couple of weeks I have been noticing that my mind has started to dwell far too often and for far too long on images of angst and worry. This in turn is affecting my whole life: my dream patterns are disrupted, my working schedule shot, my effectiveness diminishing [...] Continue Reading...
The Money Principle Brain Teaser: what are your words for the year?
For quite some time now I've been reading regularly Chris Guillebeau’s site The Art of Non-Conformity. At the end of every year Chris spends a week reflecting on what he has achieved during the past year and thinking about what he would like to achieve during the coming one. Instead [...] Continue Reading...
How can one ‘be’ when there is nothing ‘to do’?
Only yesterday it was reported that the level of unemployment in the UK has continued to grow. This affects disproportionately young people. This is a guest post by Ewan; he wants to be a teacher at a time when funding for education is declining in real terms and teachers are [...] Continue Reading...
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