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If time travel is possible, I want to travel 10 years back to tell the younger me not owning a carLike many others, I have the aspiration to have the 5Cs too. The rationale of having a car is convenience, the freedom and to commute in comfort. Yes, it is but it comes with a […]

I read the Straits Times newspaper on weekends.  The paper on saturday is usually thicker than other days. It means has more content, besides the news and ads. There’s a special section like Saturday which comments on current local issues and on Sunday, there’s Invest. I picked this up from the front page of Straits Times Recruit section […]

In almost everything that we do, having a plan is crucial. When you get a carpenter to build a house for you, he will draw out a plan before he start building it. If he didn’t the bathroom might get overlooked altogether. Similarly, an aeronautical engineers would never start work on assembling the aircraft avionic […]

I am first introduced to the Jars System when I attended the Millionaire Mind Intensive seminar in 2011. It is billed as the world’s simplest, easiest and most effective money management system. I have come to believe in its power. The fundamental behind the Jar Money Management System is very simple and elegant. Basically, you […]

I attended a talk title “Going Beyond – Empowered for Change” at the SIM Member’s day 2013 a few weeks back. One of the activity during that talk was to say out one thing that is stopping me from achieving success to the person next me. His role was to facilitate me by asking “what if […]

I heard this during a seminar. As usual, sharing with my thoughts (in blue). The SIX most important words: “I admit I made a mistake.” When you did, it’s not easy to verbalize this out. Only the brave and honest can admit he or she has erred. Ego could come in the way. The FIVE most […]

I pick the 10 points below from the article of the same title in Success from Home Magazine (pg 13, Volume 8, Issue 5, May 2012). The text in blue are personal notes I added for myself in context of where I am residing i.e. Singapore. Note: This is a disclaimer. My financial education is […]