Sunday = Ponder-day
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…
Category: Mindfulness intentional, accepting and non-judgmental focus of your attention on the emotions, thoughts and sensations occurring in the present moment
Why do you try to avoid pain so often?
Do you use Alipay, payWave, Apple Pay, Google Pay, Samsung Pay or boring NETS or even Credit Cards to part with your money? Then for you making payments might hurt less than it should. The pain of paying may be the…
Question time: What does your job mean to you?
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…
Are you paying attention?
To what? – you might ask. To whatever you are somewhat interested in. We are masters in paying zero attention to what we are not interested in. All thanks to our inborn or learned biases. Regular readers of Tacomob are…
The best things in life aren’t things
I was a bit quiet over the last 4 weeks for a reason. I went for a Mountain Biking Tour to Nepal. Living in a densely populated City-Island-State like Singapore—where driving in any direction for about 30 minutes brings you…
Time for some Optimism
You and I we tend to be optimistic about the future. That is not a bad thing in general. However, this optimism might easily develop into “wishful thinking”. Too much “wishful thinking” will be harmful to you and your money. You might be awful…
Ponder-worthy stuff I read last week
The best way to talk to people about money … is keeping the phrases, “What do you want to do?” or “Whatever works for you,” loaded and ready to fire. You can explain to other people the history of what…
Weakness of willpower
Why do we consciously do things which we genuinely know are not beneficial to us? A non-financial example includes smoking cigarettes (we know we shouldn’t, but many do anyway), while a financial example includes not living within our means, or saving up for a…
Have you ever been wrong?
If your answer is yes, you are an honest chap. If your answer is no, either you are lying to yourself or your name must be Nobody (“Nobody is perfect”). Or you are a candidate running for president—the best any country ever had. I would…
Profound Question
I had lunch with an ex-colleague from my corporate-duty-days yesterday. She asked me how was it possible (sic!) to achieve financial freedom by the age of 44? Hmm, that made me think. I was not able to come up with…
intentional, accepting and non-judgmental focus of your attention on the emotions, thoughts and sensations occurring in the present moment
Why do you try to avoid pain so often?
Do you use Alipay, payWave, Apple Pay, Google Pay, Samsung Pay or boring NETS or even Credit Cards to part with your money? Then for you making payments might hurt less than it should. The pain of paying may be the…
Question time: What does your job mean to you?
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…
Are you paying attention?
To what? – you might ask. To whatever you are somewhat interested in. We are masters in paying zero attention to what we are not interested in. All thanks to our inborn or learned biases. Regular readers of Tacomob are…
The best things in life aren’t things
I was a bit quiet over the last 4 weeks for a reason. I went for a Mountain Biking Tour to Nepal. Living in a densely populated City-Island-State like Singapore—where driving in any direction for about 30 minutes brings you…
Time for some Optimism
You and I we tend to be optimistic about the future. That is not a bad thing in general. However, this optimism might easily develop into “wishful thinking”. Too much “wishful thinking” will be harmful to you and your money. You might be awful…
Ponder-worthy stuff I read last week
The best way to talk to people about money … is keeping the phrases, “What do you want to do?” or “Whatever works for you,” loaded and ready to fire. You can explain to other people the history of what…
Weakness of willpower
Why do we consciously do things which we genuinely know are not beneficial to us? A non-financial example includes smoking cigarettes (we know we shouldn’t, but many do anyway), while a financial example includes not living within our means, or saving up for a…
Have you ever been wrong?
If your answer is yes, you are an honest chap. If your answer is no, either you are lying to yourself or your name must be Nobody (“Nobody is perfect”). Or you are a candidate running for president—the best any country ever had. I would…
Profound Question
I had lunch with an ex-colleague from my corporate-duty-days yesterday. She asked me how was it possible (sic!) to achieve financial freedom by the age of 44? Hmm, that made me think. I was not able to come up with…