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Creating Your Mindset

How to turn your dreams into reality in 4 simple stages

+ 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?

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Landlord skills

Landlords! Here’s how to make utility management easy

+ Jess Chai reveals how to smite your utility management woes with an incredibly simple solution Once upon a time there was a newbie property investor. She loved buying houses and renting them. Every so often an issue would present itself and our sweet naive property investor would freak out! Oft she would scream “Curse

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Landlord skills

How to increase your credit score in one simple step

+ 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,

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Creating Your Mindset

Is Robert Kiyosaki’s Rich Dad Poor Dad still relevant?

+ 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

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Interviews

Chris Ludwig: Reaching your dreams via parental power

In this impromptu video blog, I chat to Chris Ludwig on the seeds of his success. Prior to this video blog, I had never met Chris before or knew how amazing he is. Chris was standing next to me in a long queue and we just got chatting. Five minutes into our chat, I just

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Wealth Philosophy

Trick yourself into becoming a money magnet

YES! I finally got the call. It was my friend Natalie (name changed for privacy). She asked if I could help with her money management. ^Was my response. Managing money is one of my FAVOURITE subjects. I love learning time efficient ways to accumulate more money. I love time efficient ways of managing money. And above

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Wealth Philosophy

How to find someone who’s ego won’t ruin your success

Every business I know has suffered when an ego got involved. Every single one. No exception. Either the business has gone under or the business has suffered a massive financial blow because of egos. In addition, when egos get involved, betrayals and other underhand behaviours surface. Behaviours such as a partner setting up another business

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Wealth Philosophy

How your positive affirmations hold you back

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

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Landlord skills

How to build a £1,000,000 property portfolio in just 2 years

+ Nate Chai interviews Stephanie Brennan, who managed to build an AUD$ 2.3 million property portfolio in just two years After reading a news story about a 24-year-old with an AUD$2.3 million property portfolio, I knew that we absolutely had to interview her. Stephanie Brennan (pictured in the header) has managed to begin her property empire

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Entrepreneurial skills

How to become (and stay) respected in business and life

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

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Interviews

Ryan Windsor reveals how to turn £6,250 into £1,500,000

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

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Saving/Frugality

How useful is George Clason’s The Richest Man in Babylon?

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

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Wealth Philosophy

7 unmistakable signs you know it’s time to begin investing

This week I’ve been on a bit of an investing binge, reading Investing for Dummies (review here), and If You Can (27 pages, insightful, and free). After reading more and more about investing, I’ve realised something… I don’t want to invest. At least, not yet. Turns out that there are a few things that you should do before you

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Wealth Philosophy

How a £2 investment saved me a staggering amount of cash

So there’s this guy, Lord Kelvin, whose work helped define both the first and second law of thermodynamics. He was such an intellectual badass they named absolute temperatures after him (hence kelvins). He also did some incredible things for data transference, but I digress. Lord Kelvin said this amazing thing: Where does all your money

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Wealth Philosophy

5 powerful ways friends help you achieve your dreams

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

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Reviews

Should you read: The Compound Effect

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

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Think and Grow Rich - Napoleon Hill - 21st Century Edition - What are the differences - Five Years to Financial Freedom
Reviews

Should you read: Think and Grow Rich : The 21st-Century Edition

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,

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Interviews

23 jobs later a property millionaire at the age of 23

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,

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Wealth Philosophy

The most dangerous advice Napoleon Hill ever gave

This week I’ve been reading the classic Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill, I’ve yet to finish it yet, but one piece of advice Hill suggests is a little…dangerous. Whilst I’m not criticising Hill, it feels as though one of his suggestions has the potential to lead people to ruin. In Think and Grow

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