Magnificent Life Team
Insights
December 13, 2021
Sustainable sanity
When we stand together, we can succeed together. We can support and encourage one another. But this only happens in our smaller, more intimate groups. The fourth industrial revolution has…
December 13, 2021
How much time is your money worth?
As we build businesses and seek to create various income opportunities, we are always confronted with the challenge of pricing. It’s a challenge because all of our situations are different.…
December 6, 2021
Learning leverages healthy decisions (3/3)
Readiness is key to learning something new. If we’re not ready to learn something… it will probably go straight in one ear and out the other. That was a favourite…
December 6, 2021
Setting benchmarks
Whilst intentional reflection may happen at the end or beginning of a year or personal growth journey, unintentional reflection happens all the time. And, we barely notice it, most of…
November 29, 2021
Building your business online
For many years the culture of all communication has been changing. Initially, many of us thought that the social media and digital branding space was merely a digital version of…
November 22, 2021
Don’t derail your finances
“As you slide down the bannister of life, may the splinters never point the wrong way.” Irish Blessing When everything is going right, we often feel that something is about…
November 15, 2021
Tired of being anxious about money?
Of all conversations about money, there’s a common emotion that comes up. It’s one that everyone feels alone in, that they’re the only ones to feel this, but time and…
November 15, 2021
Avoid being overwhelmed by change
One of the biggest challenges with change is that it can be overwhelming. There are many reasons why we might be averse to constant change, but when it is just…
November 8, 2021
How do you measure financial success?
In a recent article from Morningstar, they raised two excellent points about measuring financial success. Like so many of us, Morningstar believes that great investing advice means understanding our hopes,…
November 1, 2021
Learning leverages healthy decisions (2/3)
“I am always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.” Winston Churchill So often, after about 12-14 years in conventional schooling systems, all we want to…
October 25, 2021
It’s time to turn up the kindness, to yourself
In a recent blog from Marelisa Fabrega, lawyer and entrepreneur, she spoke of 17 ways to be kinder to yourself! It seems like a lot, but when we think about…
October 25, 2021
What’s an annuity?
Have you ever heard someone say that you need to make your money work for you? It seems like an impossible achievement for many of us because we immediately think…
October 18, 2021
The best place to invest
Somehow, despite all the messages to be kinder to ourselves, we have this predisposition to put ourselves down. Along the line, the early messages of “You can do better” become…
October 11, 2021
Can you change how you feel about money?
Here’s the quick answer: yes! That’s the easy part. The challenge lies in the next question: How do I change how I feel about money? There are plenty of books,…
October 11, 2021
Levels of financial dependence
At the very surface level of constructing a financial plan, the journey can feel linear. We begin with what we have and plan to move towards an end goal of…
October 4, 2021
Learning leverages healthy decisions (1/3)
A curriculum doesn’t drive learning; curiosity drives learning. When we consider the learning pattern of those who are outside of schooling systems, it’s curiosity that drives their learning, not the…
September 27, 2021
Charge what you’re worth
“How much should I be charging my clients?” This is a common question as we work with an increasing number of people setting up their own businesses. In the wake…
September 20, 2021
What happens to our passwords when we pass?
Estate planning, wills and final testaments are not easy processes to navigate. Setting up life cover and considering what will happen to your family when you pass away can be…
September 20, 2021
Six areas of financial planning
Have you ever gone down the #Fintwit rabbit hole? According to fintwit.ai, #Fintwit is a vibrant community of investors on Twitter, who tweet trading ideas, active trades, personal portfolios and…
September 13, 2021
Ready to be more resilient?
We can’t change what happens to us, but we can change how we respond to what happens to us, and within us. Everything ages, but not everything ages well. Some…
September 13, 2021
The higher the fee, the better the value?
How do you decide on the better of two products you are not really familiar with or can’t visually tell the difference? For example – I had to buy a…
September 6, 2021
Making mindfulness easier
Anything in life that is truly worth doing – is not easy. It is easy to forget this when we see others doing really well and making the difficult seem…
August 30, 2021
Déjà vu?
When we experience our first crisis, we think our world is about to end. It could have been our first unrequited love when we were 12, a rejection letter from…
August 23, 2021
Have you been offered early retirement? (Part 2)
Following on from the previous blog on considering early retirement, the focus of this conversation sparker is to look at five key things that should be on our to-do list…