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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
Value add is a key component of our recently released book – social magnetism. A book full of insights on how you can create great connections which will ultimately enable you to be successful in any endeavour. In this discussion between entrepreneur, Rob Aalders and Nate Chai, Rob shares his secret sauce on a foundational
+ 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?
+ Ben Chai runs down 7 customer service scenarios that will test your customer service power! Can you find the solution to all of them? Every professional business person is aware that in every area of business and entertainment, customer service is king. The more customer-oriented the business, the greater the repeat custom, the greater the
+ Nate Chai reveals the three essential pieces of knowledge about wealth gleaned for Robert Kiyosaki’s Rich Dad Poor Dad After reading Robert Kiyosaki’s Rich Dad Poor Dad (review here) it seems like becoming wealthy is the easiest thing in the world. The rules he gives you are fantastic and are 100 percent doable for
+ 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
+ Released over 15 years ago, we look at if Robert Kiyosaki’s Rich Dad Poor Dad is still relevant Finally, we come to tackling one of the big boys. In personal development and wealth generating circles the two books that everyone has to read are “Think and Grow Rich” by Napoleon Hill and “Rich Dad Poor
If I was to give one piece of advice to my future child it would be: Take responsibility for your actions and emotions. You choose how you feel and you choose how you react to situations. After nine years of denial, I finally got it. I am the one who chooses how I feel and
Thanks for sticking with us, I missed yesterday’s article as I was travelling from Indonesia to Singapore. Something that is a huge source of anxiety for me is the approach to your social circle that success books advocate. The logic behind many of these books is the old adage “you are the average of your five
Have you ever wondered what is it that causes some people to be successful and other people to constantly have dramas, problems and business deals that go wrong? You are doing everything correctly yet things are going wrong. Why is it? What is going wrong? There I was at a birthday party enjoying the company
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
We write a lot about how and why you should have big dreams. Indeed, one of the most important concepts I coach people on is how to think big. Unless we force ourselves to set huge goals, we will consistently perform at the highest level of mediocrity. But today we’re not talking about dreaming big.
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
A lot of you guys are asking about how to stay on track with your savings, and that is a fantastic topic for a post. Thanks readers! The real trick to hitting your savings goals is consistency and being realistic. You may have seen our posts with attention grabbing titles about how much you can
A short rant from me this week on the use and abuse of affirmations. If you have not yet come across the psychology of affirmations, then very simply, it is any positive or negative statement that you make over and over. Here are some examples: I am useless at chores I’m very clever I’m not
I read Brian Tracy’s The Luck Factor when I was 12, one of his “universal laws” is the “law of attraction” which essentially states that anything you make your dominant thought will be attracted into your life. Being so young at the time I wholeheartedly accepted it into my life. Once I grew up a bit I
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
Not content with sharing all his incredible property knowledge, Ryan Windsor sat down with us once again. This time he tells us his own incredible journey to financial freedom, from dropping out of school at 16 without a penny to his name, to owning 11 properties and having a net worth of roughly £1,500,000. In
+ Nate Chai answers the question should you read Benjamin Graham’s The Intelligent Investor? As part of this journey, I’m not limiting myself to property investment. So this week I read The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham. Warren Buffett has said on numerous occasions that this is the best book on investing and whilst I’m in
Sometimes I feel the concept of positive thinker has evolved into a new definition which has a cult status and damaged many a good person. What is the damage, how does it happen, and how can you avoid the danger? My friend runs a great political blog, and one of his writers recently posted an article
Nate Chai reveals if you should read George Clason’s The Richest Man in Babylon. After seeing this book on a number of “top x books for wealth” lists I thought I should give George Samuel Clason’s The Richest Man in Babylon a look. Incredibly the book was written in 1926 and just goes to show
Alright, I’m done. I’m finished. I can no longer be positive about reading personal development books. They are, by and large, terrible. How many times can I put myself through reading the same pieces of information chopped up and regurgitated into endless lists, faux-ancient “laws”, and new age spirituality? “Success” books are a fantastic way
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,
+ 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
Furious doesn’t even cut it. How could my letting agent get the rental amount so terribly wrong that it obliterates my cashflow?! The worst part is I could have avoided this by doing one simple thing. …I’ve just returned from an anger run (spontaneously going for a run to pound out the anger). It didn’t work.
One of the excellent pieces of advice Darren Hardy’s The Compound Effect (review here) helped me remember is that, in most cases, you need people around you who you can help and they help you in return. We’ve been talking to you guys a lot about betrayal recently, so with this article I’m going to balance it out
This week I’ve been reading The Compound Effect by Darren Hardy and it nicely fits into the “get rich slowly” camp of success books. From the title it’s obvious that the advice in this book is akin to that provided by Jeff Olson in The Slight Edge and by most of the success writers, but what sets
Another giant of the “success” book genre, Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill is one of the most influential tomes in the wealth development sphere. I vaguely remember reading it when I was much younger, but this time I read the updated 21st century addition and it makes a whale of a difference. So,
“The gift of betrayal” seems almost like an oxymoron. Our alternative article title “betrayers, liars and cheaters are your best friends” seemed equally hard to swallow. So to start, I thought I’d share my perspective and why I wanted to write about the gift of betrayal. The gift of betrayal in poetry The Gift of Betrayal was triggered by a
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
You often hear it from the now wealthy “I wish I’d started sooner”, today we’re talking to Stephanie Brennan who heeded that advice. By 23, Stephanie was already an Australian property millionaire and at just 24 she now boasts a property portfolio worth AUD$2.3 million (£1,060,000), in this in-depth interview she reveals; how she discovered her passion,