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The best countries to retire abroad

The best countries to retire abroad How many Aussies are retiring overseas and where do they most commonly go? Some estimates suggesting...

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Maximising your annual leave. How to turn your 20 days annual leave into 56 days of holidays in 2021

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Maximising your annual leave. How to turn your 20 days annual leave into 56 days of holidays in 2021

As a financial planner for the last 20 years, planning is now well and truly part of my DNA. And between you and me, once you know the...

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Are you considering a career in financial planning?

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Are you considering a career in financial planning?

Why would anyone consider financial planning as a profession? Even before you begin the rallying cry of others intent on undermining...

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How To Create Your Own Financial Plan. A lesson from the mechanic and the cardiologist

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How To Create Your Own Financial Plan. A lesson from the mechanic and the cardiologist

Creating and managing a financial plan requires both a measure of skill and art. The following are the areas we look at when creating,...

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Optimizing Life: Lessons from Nature's Seasons

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Optimizing Life: Lessons from Nature's Seasons

Today exercising feels good the traffic to work and home is minimal, I do all my activities efficiently, proactively and the results of...

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How to Discover and Reconnect to Your Core Values

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How to Discover and Reconnect to Your Core Values

If you are willing to own it, you can change it! I know what I have to do, I also know that there’s no getting around it, however...

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Your Ideal Life and Grand Design

Creating our Ideal Life is a lot like embarking on our very own Grand Designs Adventure. Time, Money, Laws, Planning, Relationships and...

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What to Do in Cairns? Local Knowledge. Experience A Champagne Lifestyle on a Beer Budget

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What to Do in Cairns? Local Knowledge. Experience A Champagne Lifestyle on a Beer Budget

I love to travel (champagne lifestyle). At the same time I want be sure I’m getting both value for my money and time (beer budget)....

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The Good, the Bad and the Ugly of Working with Your Spouse

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The Good, the Bad and the Ugly of Working with Your Spouse

Our first encounter was at was at a training event. In truth a non-event would have been a better description. Our second encounter was...

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What does success mean to you?

Money is a really powerful thing – it has the power to help us destroy, or to massively improve the world, depending on how we handle it....

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How much is your job costing you?

Both from personal and profession experience, I’ve learnt and seen on a daily basis, and at its core, what we spend our money on, is a...

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Paradise found. You are your own harshest critic.

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Paradise found. You are your own harshest critic.

Rules, expectations, opinions, comparisons, structure, attitude blah, blah, blah… Oh! How my head aches just thinking and reading these...

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2022 The Good, The Bad & The Ugly Report

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2022 The Good, The Bad & The Ugly Report

Well friends, as the curtain draws to a close on 2022, let’s take a pause looks back over the past year, and benchmark our progress...

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Financial Independence Retire Early. Good, Bad & Ugly Report 2020

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Financial Independence Retire Early. Good, Bad & Ugly Report 2020

Well friends, 2020 is now dry cement. Yeah!!!!!!! However before we embark on our plans for 2021 I’d like to share the ups and downs,...

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How to turn your 20 days annual leave into 52 days of holidays in 2020 edition

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How to turn your 20 days annual leave into 52 days of holidays in 2020 edition

As a financial planner for the last 20 years, planning is now well and truly part of my DNA. And between you and me, once you know the...

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Financial Independence Retire Early. Good, Bad & Ugly Report 2019

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Financial Independence Retire Early. Good, Bad & Ugly Report 2019

Well friends, 2019 is now dry cement. However before we embark on our plans for 2020 I’d like to share the ups and downs, successes and...

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Financial Independence Retire Early. Good, Bad & Ugly Report 2023

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Financial Independence Retire Early. Good, Bad & Ugly Report 2023

Cairns Well friends, the curtain has now drawn to a close on 2023, let’s take a pause looks back over the past year, and benchmark our...

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Financial Independence Retire Early. Good, Bad & Ugly Report 2017

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Financial Independence Retire Early. Good, Bad & Ugly Report 2017

Well friends, 2017 is now dry cement. However before we embark on our plans for 2018 I’d like to share the ups and downs, successes and...

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Financial Independence Retire Early. Good, Bad & Ugly Report 2021

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Financial Independence Retire Early. Good, Bad & Ugly Report 2021

Well friends, 2021 is now dry cement. Yeah!!!!!!! However, before we embark on our plans for 2022, I’d like to share the ups and downs,...

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Financial Independence Retire Early. Good, Bad & Ugly Report 2016

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Financial Independence Retire Early. Good, Bad & Ugly Report 2016

Well friends, 2016 is now dry cement. However before we embark on our plans for 2017 I’d like to share the ups and downs, successes and...

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