Posted on July 17, 2009 - by La Papillion

Reflections

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I know I’ve not been blogging for some time, so here’s my feeble attempt to do that.

Blogging has always been a reflection of myself. Though I’ve not been writing, I’ve always been reflecting. So, maybe this blog article will just log in some of the things that I’ve been thinking about since the myriad things I reflect are too short to exist as an individual article by itself.

1. Most dominantly on my mind is how to make more money. Ya, I sure know how it sounds like. But that’s the truth. I’m still trying to meet my 50k target by this year end, and am most happy to say that for my target set per month, I managed to do it. But it’s getting tougher and tougher to do that. Hey, setting a goal is the first part. Relentlessly pursuing it is the next part. Who ever said it’s going to be easy?

Sometimes the only motivation for me to keep doing work at the pace I’m doing is the elusive utopia that I won’t be doing this forever and I’ll be financially free from the burdens I’m carrying now. I need to remind myself why the hell am I saving for.

2. Time and money. I need to leverage my time more. I NEED to earn more but work less. I know it can be done and I just need more time to do it. That would be one big goal settled, if I managed to pull it off successfully. This will really seriously accelerate my goals of being financially free.

3. Endowment plans… I always try to separate my insurance from investment. For example, I never try to use whole life as an instrument for investing and will not compare the returns of whole life to say a fund returns. I’ve no intention to cash out my whole life policy to get the cash returns (though it’s good to have an option if I have to) hence will not launch into the big debate about buy term invest the rest philosophy. Read more…

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1. Reflections on 31 December 2009
2. Christmas day’s reflections
3. Financial freedom: it’s a mindset, really!