Finding a job with decent pay is not an easy task nowadays. Trying to make extra money in your current job can also be a challenge as your job may pay a salary or you may not have the opportunity for overtime pay. Moonlighting or working on a side hustle can take a lot Read More …
Category: General Finance
Blog topics that involves everyday or general finance. It could be about saving money, reducing debt, how to invest or anything that can help you improve your financial knowledge.
Achieving Financial Independence
A while ago, I started my financial independence journey and set sail towards my early retirement with a goal of $2M in family net worth. Once I started this journey, I met a variety of people from bloggers, to families and friends to the casual strangers on the way. Very often, I would get Read More …
Raising Financially Responsible Kids
After becoming a parent about six years ago, I started to ask myself a simple question, “how do I raise my kids to be financially responsible individuals?” In general, I know that it’s important to be a nurturing and supportive parent to our kids. Providing them with the best environment that we could possibly Read More …
The Final Step To Saving A Million Dollars
It has been more than a month since I started to compose the first step of this million dollars saving guide. Throughout this process, I had not only reflected and learned from my past financial decisions, I had also done a fair amount of research and incorporated new ideas from other personal finance experts Read More …
The Fifth Step To Saving A Million Dollars
In the previous four steps I had covered a few basic topics ranging from pursuing a career with income potential to minimizing consumer debts to harnessing the money growth factors to invest long-term in the financial market. By following the first four steps, it’s sufficient for the average person to develop a good grasp Read More …
The Fourth Step To Saving A Million Dollars
Welcome back! I hope that you enjoyed reading the previous steps and the concepts that I covered. In this step, I’ll be covering more interesting and fun topics than the previous steps (First Step, Second Step and Third Step). Yes, I am going to talk about the financial market and provide insights on how Read More …
The Third Step To Saving A Million Dollars
In the first step to saving a million dollars, I’ve provided insights with regard to maximizing your potential to generate income from your employment. The second step was a little dry (I must admit, not a lot of people like to talk about debt), where I advised my readers to avoid costly loans that Read More …
The Second Step To Saving A Million Dollars
In the first step to save a million dollars, the theme was to research and pursue a suitable career with great earning potentials. For the second step, the central theme will be keeping more of our hard-earned money. In my minimizing your income tax post, I mentioned that “It’s not how much you make. Read More …
The First Step To Saving A Million Dollars
While growing up, I didn’t have the benefit and guidance of a mentor nor a big brother. So I was left to fend for myself and to explore my own career choices when I grew up (I would say that was about the age of 23 or so). Fortunately, I had two things that Read More …
Part 2: How To Improve Your Financial Health
Happy New Year Isaved5k readers. Welcome to the first post (second post if you count my giveaway post) of 2017 and I hope that you’ve had a great holiday and are ready to jump-start 2017 with a bang. I am happy that you are here, which means you are interested in having a healthy Read More …