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Part 7: Setting Financial Goals
Setting clear financial goals is a crucial step in your journey to becoming your own financial investment manager. These goals will guide your investment strategy,...
Part 6: Stocks, Bonds, and Mutual Funds. What Does it all Mean?
Types of Investments Throughout the series this far we have mentioned different types of investments - stocks, bonds, real estate, index link funds etc. but let’s...
Part 5: Important Investing Timelines to understand
Compound Interest: The Power of Compounding What is Compound Interest? There is a good chance that you have already heard the term compound interest before....
Part 4: Risk and Return
So far we have talked about how the investing industry is built on jargon and technical terms that may have you thinking that making a...
Part 3: Common Misconceptions and Fears
I am going to guess that by now, even though I have given you the math and shown you the size of the money that...
Part 2: What Do Investment Managers Do?
In this instalment, we'll explore what it is an investment manager actually does and how investment firms work. Understanding this process is the first step...
Part 1: Empower Your Wealth: Become Your Own Financial Investment Manager
As a business school professor, I’ve often found myself diving into the concept of disintermediation. If you're new to the term, disintermediation is essentially the...
An Athlete and an Artist Sit Down at my Dinner Table . . .
I have been blessed with two children - well more like young adult men now - and to the naked eye they could not be more different. One is loud, with an easy laugh and and ability to connect with just about anyone and fully embraces the physicality of life. . The other lives in his head, is meticulously about his belongings and it's only his innate kindness that masks his impatience with small surface talk. However, they have both taught me more more about the concept of flow introduced by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi in his book by the same title than any experience I have ever had. One man-child is an athlete, playing in the span of one year, soccer, cross-country racing, mountain biking, ski racing, basketball, hockey, ultimate frisbee and baseball. After a game the other night, he described playing second base in baseball like this, "When I see the pitcher get set, I just get into my ready position and let my body take over". Perhaps that feels natural to some of you reading, but I promise, not once in my life have I ever thought the right thing to do was "just let my body take over". "I could play baseball every day for hours", he goes on, "and never think to look at the clock or wonder when it was going to be over". That my friend, is flow. The other man-child is musician, a painter and a poet. "When I paint", he says, "I put on my headphones and I relax into the canvas and sort of let the paint take over. Sometimes I dance". That my friend, is also flow. My one fervent wish for them is that they never lose the ability to slip so seamlessly and naturally into flow. But what about those of us who do find it harder. Do we just sit and wait and hope that somehow flow sneaks up and hits us over our heads? Probably not.
Getting Started with an Airbnb Business in Vancouver
I thought it might be interesting to share the steps involved in setting up and testing some business ideas that I'm working on wit my student. One of the firsts is setting up an Airbnb business in Vancouver. Here I go through what kinds of properties you can Airbnb in Vancouver, how to find a property, how to project revenues and costs and test the feasibility. I have also included a link to a pre-populated spreadsheet to help you calculate your costs.
Can we really change our minds?
Can we actually change what our subconscious mind thinks, feels and believes? Here's how to change your mind:1. Identify the beliefs you want to change2. Replace them with another belief 3. Repeat those empowering beliefs until the limiting belief no longer exists.