What do you do when you feel out of whack? When you’re stressed out and feeling as though you’re out of balance? Many people find meditation, exercise or yoga activities that help them to rebalance and centre themselves. Or you take a visit to your masseuse, chiropractor or physiotherapist for a regular adjustment.

Just like your health, your finances can also get out of alignment. Your portfolio, whether ordinary investment or superannuation, can easily shift from your strategic (or t...

I’m heading off overseas to Vietnam shortly for a 2 week vacation and a few days at Conference. Fabulous, I know!

I’ve done quite a bit of travelling in my past and I’ve had some incidents with wallets and money being stolen. When it comes to currency and money, a lot has changed since the mid 90s in the way you can access your funds, but what hasn’t changed is that there are still people out there who will steal your stuff.

Here are my thoughts for savvy travelling with money.

For...

Bill Gates once said, “Most people overestimate what they can do in one year and underestimate what they can do in ten years.”

10 years can disappear in a blink of an eye. I was chatting with friends over dinner last week discussing the real estate opportunities we had missed in the early 2000s, all for a variety of reasons and all of those reasons being other than financial.

It is easy to lament the things we didn’t do if we look back on the past with some regret. This point of...

Since end of September last year, I’ve been going to the gym. Not just any gym, but Fight Gym.

As a young child, I was sporty and active. My major sport was softball and in my early teens was considered adept enough to make regional teams (until I broke my right arm in a bicycle accident!). At school on the playground and during sports time, I played everything from handball to football!

From around 17, life started to impinge on sport. Suddenly I was too busy with study, part time ...