Happiness is not a goal. It’s an ongoing journey to be savored along the way day by day.
… see what others are spending. And that is a problem. Due to our envy bias we do pay more attention to how our friends and neighbours spend compared to how they save. Well, comparing with friends might be a…
Would you agree or not? Have you ever felt a drop in motivation to actively take care of your investments? If you are not intrinsically motivated, your default option is usually extrinsic motivation. That leaves you foraging for carrots (money,…
The centerpiece of your identity and life’s purpose? A means to get richer than your neighbor to become happy? Or actually richer than the rest of the world? Thanks to the internet “we can compare ourselves to every humblebragger from…
How do you value time versus money? Let’s first understand a crucial difference between them: As a personal commodity, money is extremely elastic, in that you can theoretically accumulate an infinite amount of it. Time, by contrast, is intrinsically inelastic:…
To grow your nest-egg you can earn more or invest more. Wherever you look there are reports on robots taking our jobs. Are you a bit scared of AI and robots yet? When my generation entered the workforce in the…
Do you feel engaged at your work? This is somehow an off-pattern post here on TACOMOB. But it totally fits into the context of Taking Care of Your Own Business – your own business of earning money by working for…
My apologies, in case I puzzled you, but we do love our acronyms here in Singapore. I have mentioned the PFC previously under the “Framing Bias” but to expound further, the PFC is your Prefrontal Cortex; a brain region that lies…
Does your work rock? Does your work sometimes feel like this? Recognition is the fuel that keeps us going. Do you feel you are being recognized enough for what you are doing for the company by your bosses? What…
THE GOOD LIFE IS ANYWHERE We tell ourselves that we need the right setup before we finally buckle down and get serious. We tell ourselves that we need this and that at work, a more supportive boss, more autonomy, more…
Does it give you a purpose beyond that biggest addiction of them all – your monthly paycheck? Does it enable you to contribute to something bigger than yourself? Hmm, what is he trying to get at? Allow me…