One of the things I’ve learnt in my journey towards financial freedom is to be more proactive and do something instead of lying around waiting for things to happen. In life, we will be faced with many decisions on a day-to-day basis. Some decisions are relatively easy, e.g. what to eat for breakfast, what to wear to work.

Other decisions are harder, e.g. should I cut loss on my paper losses or hold on to a stock? Should I set my asset allocation at 50% equities to 50% cash or 70% equities to 30% cash or 100% cash and 0% equities.

Being paralysed and afraid of making a decision sometimes inhibits our growth as a person because we do not want to accept the consequences of our own decisions.

Life can only be lived looking forward

Steve Jobs’ commencement address that talked about how we ...