Real estate is often spruiked as the best investment in your portfolio and there are literally thousands of "gurus" out there promoting property investment strategies. But, weirdly, there are

Well, well, well, it's been a few moons now hasn't it? It's high time that I provide an update on my progress towards becoming debt free in 2 years, especially given that it is approaching 2 years since

It's time for the bi-annual review! Back when I earned virtually no money, but had little in the way of responsibility, reviewing my finances made no sense. I already knew where my limited funds went (beer),

This past week brought some bad news with it. My wife has been stood down from her work while this virus situation is worked out which makes us a single income household. I mentioned this in a previous

Week three of the lockdown is complete. And, sanity wise, I am fine. While I normally travel extensively for my work, I have now been working from home for a full three weeks. This feels unusual, and I

They're almost ripe! I've spent the past 12 months or so growing my chilli plants. This has involved learning: how to grow chillies from seed; propagating them from seedlings to plants; learning the best

Day 16 of my isolation... I suspect they assume I spend all day sleeping I've been in isolation for a couple of weeks now. While I have no symptoms or any likelihood of having this fucking virus, my employer

Hello, to my fellow Hive users! I wasn't very well known (if at all) on Steemit. As I was a relatively new user of the platform compared to most of you, who have transitioned over to Hive. I joined Steemit

It’s been some time since I have posted here. And I feel bad for not doing so. Especially with the recent excitement around Mr Sun squiring the platform. I enjoy writing, but I seem to be consistently

2019 was always going to be a challenging year financially But I am happy to report that the year came to a positive end and I have launched into 2020 by knocking one of my various debts on the head. One

Some time ago I wrote about growing chillies as the starting point of a small “side hustle” which will soon lead to me trying my hand at creating chilli related products, selling chilli seeds online, and

Learning from your mistakes is an important way to grow as a person. But being stuck in a loop of repeatedly reminding yourself of all your errors in life can be tiring and depressing. I am the type of

I haven't been on Steemit for very long - less than 4 months in fact. But the #my2019 competitions created by @anomadsoul are too good an opportunity to review my time on Steemit, and some of the creations

Define insanity The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again while expecting a different result each time - Albert Einstein This quote sums up many aspects of my life, including

I think I need to make one this year People always say that new year’s resolutions are made to be broken. I generally avoid making them given people are correct in that the resolution typically fails to

This too shall pass The above sentence is my wife’s favourite quote. And I find myself falling back to this quote very frequently. src The quote is significant to me for a couple of reasons. Firstly, during

Well it’s actually closer to 14 months. But it is almost precisely 12 months since I walked out of my business for the last time. I don’t quite know how I feel about this anniversary, however the past

It’s microwave meals and hotel rooms again! This shit never gets old. Oh wait... I’m doing some work in southern Victoria this week. And my work days are quite long. I had every intention of catching up

One of the things that I love about my work is that I get to travel to so many different places. Even if most of that travel sees me on the road well before dawn. Strangely, recent months have seen me

The consequences of failure can be endless I've spoken about a few of the consequences of business failure in previous posts, however the consequences can be many, and sometimes a little unexpected. One