The concept of a gap year is to take a break from your career path and spend 12 months either travelling or living abroad doing something completely different from your normal life.
This is often done during the year between high school and starting university/college or starting a ‘real’ job. Isn’t it funny how we think we need the break at this point in life when so many of us are about to sign up for a few decades of this thing called work?
Of the 40+ blogs we published in 2017, Four Easy Savings Tips to Create Your Financial Launchpad (Financial Launchpad Part 1) was our one of our readers favourites! Since that post we’ve had lots of requests for more actionable tips like that. Especially for building on savings and how to start investing. So here goes nothing!
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Recently we’ve written about the importance of having a side hustle, how to find a suitable hustle and reasons why you should start one. This week you’ll learn how to keep your side hustle in check.
Welcome to part two of our series on side hustles! In part one we covered the benefits of starting a side hustle and how to find the right hustle for you. In this week’s blog we give you our key tips on how to start a side hustle and get it off the ground faster.
Side hustles are trending. The idea of having a side hustle has become more and more popular and is the subject of every 2nd or 3rd meme on Instagram. You can start a side hustle in almost anything and it’s the best way I know to earn some extra income and kick more goals sooner.
Think about your last holiday – do you know exactly how much you spent and whether you blew out your travel budget? Been there, done that, and definitely got too many t-shirts!
Here are our tips for mastering your travel budget, ensuring you have all-time holidays and can still buy groceries when you get home.
Inspiration and motivation are really important but these alone won’t get you where you need to be. I want to show you, using some of the lessons I’ve learned, how to profit from your motivation at it’s highest level to generate positive results for your money and your life.
It can be easy to get overwhelmed with big plans especially when money is involved. The good news is you can fix this without any money knowledge and it takes next to no time. If you can block out 20 minutes of your weekly schedule you will be money fit and in control in no time!
So he’s finally let me loose on the blog! Hi all, it’s Tash here, arguably the better half of the Millard family and proud supporter of Sufficient Funds (read: I get to embrace the privilege of editing James’ work as a ‘hobby’ whilst I juggle my full-time mum role on mat leave).
At tax time you look back at how much you earned in the previous year, but have you ever looked at how much time was taken away? Are you prioritising the wrong things?
There is a difference between earning lots and having lots.
Even though revenue (think total sales or total income) is often a measure of success for a business, it is a false measure and provides only part of the story. The real yardstick is profit. You can generate lots of income but if you have a bloated staff base and other inefficiencies, there will be very little profit left and your business will not be successful.
There is a lot of content out there about how you need to find your purpose in order to live successfully. Simon Sinek made it famous with the brilliant “Start with Why” and every guru out there now trumpets it as a top 3 tip for success.
So now that we’re all aware that loving what you do means you’ll be better at it, I want to give you the fluff-free way to find your purpose and stay on track with it.
