Archive for March, 2009

We read a lot. We watch movies. We hear words. We attend seminars. We participate in discussions. We attend different exhibits. These were just some of the ways we learn things. In continuation of my financial literacy education, I watched a video called “The Cone of Learning” discussing the different ways of how we learn things discussed by Kiyosaki. In this video, he discussed the different ways of learning things from the least effective to the most effective way.   In his discussion,

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In my last article on credit cards, indeed credit cards can be friends and allies in achieving financial freedom if you know how to use them properly. But without discipline, it can be your worst move to avail them as they can literally be a ‘blackhole’ that can drain your finances. Being in a good credit standing, I have received a lot of offers from credit card companies. Usually, I will be interrupted at work by credit card telemarketers and they will offer me various credit

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As the saying goes, “the early bird catches the worm”, one of the things that I learned in the journey towards financial freedom is to start early to retire early. The earlier we started saving money, the earlier we started our financial education, the earlier we started to invest, we can be guaranteed that we can also retire earlier. Why not? Retiring early is one of the best options of a lot of people. Who wants to work for the rest of their lives? Who wants to be bothered by

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The month of February has ended and it’s time for me to make a post on my recent developments. As I am making this post, I was quite dismayed by the fact that when I visited bloomberg for updates on what’s happening on the financial markets all over the world, I was surprised to see a series of bad news about the global recession: First, the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) in US set another record low falling below the 7,000 mark for the first time since 1997. Second,

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