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Smart spending

Lust, Hunger and Desire

by Adam August 25, 2010 Smart spending

I’m in love. With a phone.
Be careful as your mind can quickly start rationalising purchases, regardless of whether they are in your long-term best interests. But click through and read about a strategy that might help avoid spending that you’ll later regret.

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Why Being Bad can be Good

by Adam August 1, 2010 Smart spending

Get rid of ideas of loyalty, practice your scary phone voice, step out of your comfort zone, and learn that you can do the wrong thing for the right reasons!

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Crazy Money

by Adam July 16, 2010 Smart spending

If you want to successfully grow your pennies over the long term, it doesn’t mean you can’t be crazy with your money.

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How Using Storage Can Help You Grow Your Pennies

by Adam July 12, 2010 Property

Often space = money. With this in mind, here are three money making/saving suggestions that will maximize your space.

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My Crazy Evening in Ireland

by Adam July 9, 2010 Smart spending

Being spontaneous requires a lot of pre-planning and being impulsive always works best when there has been a lot of preparation behind the scenes.

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My Crazy Evening In Another Country!

by Adam July 7, 2010 Smart spending

On Tuesday night I worked a full day before rushing out to catch a plane to another country for an evening of fun. I then came back on Wednesday morning (today!), and was back at my desk before 9am. Was I crazy? Click through and leave a comment before I share the full story!

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Get Rich with Secrets of Top Marketers

by Adam June 28, 2010 Focus

Here’s five selling ideas and how you can use them in your own life. The techniques are really useful for selling to yourself to make your future self really really happy.

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Two Powerful Ways To Stay on Track

by Adam June 2, 2010 Smart spending

Our friends influence us more than we may think. Not just for encouraging extra rounds at the bar but in the little things like our lunch choices and how we spend our evenings. So how do you stay on track with savings goals?

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Five ways to make your budget work

by Adam May 3, 2010 Basics

‘Budgets’ are like home-exercise machines. They sound great, and just having one around make you feel better at first, but then ‘life’ comes along and it sits in the corner gathering dust.
However if you want a growing pile of pennies, you really should dust off that budget and try again.
Here’s five ways to make sure it works this time.

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Your Home is Not an Investment

by Adam April 14, 2010 Investing

Whilst saving for a house deposit is an admirable goal it shouldn’t stop you from begin investing for even longer-term savings goals like retirement. It’s not OK to just be saving for a house. Click to read why saving for a house isn’t enough.

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