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In a world where possibilities are nearly endless and there are a million things to experience, time becomes the dictator of how much can you can get done. How do you get more time to do the things you really love? Get rid of the unfulfilling job and the stuff that just isn’t fun to
Have you ever wondered, why some people’s wealth building activities are met with success after success whereas others constantly crash and burn? The key is a solid foundation to wealth building. In this interview, Rob Aalders and Nate Chai share several tips on how to create a solid foundation to build wealth. This interview was
Can you imagine how to create a successful business? Many can. However the failure statistics are shocking. For example did you know that some statistics show over 80% of new businesses fail within their first five years of operation? So how can you avoid the business failure trap and create a successful business? In this
Being a young female entrepreneur with lots of hormones going on in my body, I have a lot of mood swings (and anger). I know. I feel for my family and boyfriend too … I have techniques I use to get out of a bad mood but sometimes, when I am bloodthirsty angry, I don’t
+ Ben Chai shares the essential processes you need to know in order to reach the dreams that you’ve chosen for yourself Dreams are the life blood of our hopes. Dreams are what keeps them going when life gets tough. However, why is it that so many people’s dreams are taken with them to their graves?
+ Guest Blogger Rosie Red shares her ultimate guide to mastering time management Before we get into this blog, I would like to share a seemingly irrelevant fact about me: I used to have a cookie dough business. Bare with me, this is going somewhere. The dough was egg-free and safe to eat without cooking.
+ Nate Chai demonstrates the three essential mindsets that all entrepreneurs need to master in order to run a successful business After reading Micheal Gerber’s The E Myth revisited (review here) I felt invigorated with hope, and fatigue. Gerber’s book is so jam packed with information it’s tiring trying to digest it all. With that said, one the
+ Jess Chai explains the easiest ways she built up a good credit score which is essential for obtaining a mortgage in the property investment world. If you plan on getting a mortgage sometime in the future, your credit score is vital. When I graduated from university I had no credit cards, no store cards,
+ Jess Chai reveals her sneaky secret to being able to take naps as properties basically buy themselves! Buying property can be overwhelming and tiring for newbies like me. In the beginning, my body begged me to take frequent naps. Unfortunately, the following would happen: My phone and email would blow up every 10 minutes.
So, You Want To Buy a House, and You’re Not Credit-Worthy… ◊ I’d just turned 23 with 6,000 left over from my student loan, a bit of property education, no job, no assets, a crap credit score, no track record of borrowing credit, and lived at home with my Dad. How the heck could I
Yesterday I offered to take a new friend on some viewings with me. Viewings can be intimidating, especially at the beginning when you have no clue what the heck you are meant to be looking for. The Aesthetics I got really good at looking up, squinting my eyes (no Asian jokes please) and making inquisitive faces
Have you ever had a reality check on any aspect of your life? It’s a bit like being dumped in a freezing water on a cold day. After our previous five workbook articles (links below) on how to achieve your goals, we now want to give you a goal reality check for your life journey just to ensure
Before I go through the costs of my first flip, I need you to know something… I still have these coat hooks lying around my bedroom floor. I have no clue how to put them up. Zoom into the picture. Can you see the dust on them?! Yeah, that’s how long they have been there
This blog is inspired by my automatic victimhood response, I no longer wish to keep. Without realising, I have victim mentality for as long as I remember. A victim mentally is when you allow someone else to dictate your emotions and blame them for it. For example, if someone looks at you in the street,
In last week’s personal development anxiety article, I briefly discussed my anxiety surrounding financial development. My biggest anxiety comes from being able to balance increasing my wealth with living a regular “normal” financial life. 99 per cent of financial development anxiety can be eradicated by creating a budget that you can actually stick to. In
Yes! Admin day is finally over *Sign of relief*. I wish I had a cheese and wine night planned for tonight. That would make me so happy. Today I am writing an article/blog/whatever to remind me how I am able to get into the frame of mind necessary for completing all my paperwork. Paperwork is the
Yesterday, I had a fight with my girlfriend. Nothing major, but something she said really stuck out to me, she told me “You focus so much energy on personal development and no time on liking who you are”. This level of insight is one of the many reasons we’ve stayed together this long. After thinking about
Alright, so a few months back I wrote a piece all about the “delusions” that help us be successful. At the time, I was mega-interested in understanding how the brain works, and how through understanding more about the brain we can make better decisions. In that article I mentioned a little thing called “priming” and
Hey guys, we’ve got a treat for you this week! Five years to Financial Freedom had the chance to speak with Clive Wadham-Smith, a solicitor that specialises in commercial property sales, contracts, and buying commercial properties. In this interview, Clive talks about the most common misconceptions about solicitors, how to find the right solicitor for you,
Last week we had a chat about the myth of the “rat race”, and a lot of the feedback we got was “Great article, now what are we supposed to do with that information?!” So I wanted to take a look at precisely why we feel the way we do, and what we can do about it. The
Often we say “there’s no room for niceness in business” but what does that even mean? Nate Chai investigates. If you guys have taken the quiz (I got “Property Professor”) then you’ve seen the lessons about niceness on the results page. I took issue with this idea of niceness as a negative trait and, though
In the long distant past, in a location far far away, the following conversation occurred Attendee: “I’ve taken twelve different property courses. Which company do you think is the best one?” Me: “What do you mean?” Attendee: “Well I really like the speakers at XYZ company as I think they are quite polished.” Me: “Uhhh
Before we start today, I want you to imagine of one of the following: Your big dream. A big project to accomplish. Building a large empire. Making a wave on the world. Doing anything significantly large. Do you imagine doing it yourself? I doubt it, you’re going to need a great team. You will need a great co-founder(s), you will need great business partners,
Bullet-Proofing Your Assured Shorthold Tenancy That time in my property investing career has finally come. I have had my first experience of rent arrears (never will I let this agent let my properties again). It’s such a headache, especially if you are like me and have no idea how to deal with it. I knew
+ Nate Chai unveils five ways that you can use Jeff Olson’s Slight Edge principals to vastly improve your quality of life Jeff Olson’s The Slight Edge is a great book for those who are new to personal development (review here), but those who have
As I sip on my delicious warm soya Caramel Macchiato at the ever convenient M40 Oxford service, I reflect upon my day welcoming new tenants in Coventry. If you assume a Welcome Meeting is where you introduce yourself, learn the tenants names, and then bugger off, I envy your innocence. If you assume a Welcome
I completely missed the deadline for submitting this blog to my brother for our website. I feel so bad. Nate has been working hard to produce this cool helpful property website. Unfortunately I have been so overloaded with renovations and paperwork, so when I have a spare hour before bed, I am too tired to
So you’ve taken my advice and joined the electoral role (read part 1 here), you’ve registered at a stable address, you can send and receive post from there, you’re probably thinking “What’s next Jess?!”. It’s as “easy” as getting a credit card! Hilariously I thought getting a credit card would be easy, they were practically