Welcome to the second of my mini video blog series on Myths about Money. Myth number two is simply “Having fancy stuff makes us wealthy.”  Not able to watch the video today? Read the Transcripton below: Even saying it sounds ridiculous! Nevertheless, many of us (and I am included in this) believe that the more impressive stuff we have, the wealthier we are. If we stop to think about it, I think we know this is not true. My Mum had a wonderful saying, she used to say “Oh yes, we know about them – it’s all kippers and curtains”.  What she was saying was look at those people, they live in a big house, it’s all beautifully impressive. On the outside they’ve got f... read more

Welcome to the third blog in my ‘Myths about Money’ mini blog series. This week I’m going to address the extremely common myth of “‘I don’t understand money!”. Not able to watch the video today? Read the Transcripton below: What this concept/idea actually does is to stop us from doing anything at all! We just get trapped in a sort of mental-prison continuously telling ourselves how we don’t understand money.  Let’s put a stop to that! Here’s the question to ask yourself – “What would have to happen for me to become the financial director of my own life?” In fact the answer is really, really simple. I didn’t say it was easy, but I promis... read more

There are so many myths about money it of course won’t be possible to cover them all in a short video blog series, but I wanted to address the three main myths which I think, once addressed, could have a positive impact on your life. This week we look at our final Myth of the series – more money means more happiness. Can't watch the video today? Why not read the transcript: We all know in our hearts that this myth isn’t true but it doesn’t actually stop us trying to earn more money, trying to get ‘more stuff’ and, somehow, believing that this will make us happy! Here’s a question for you though; it’s all very well talking about this ‘stuff’ but what do you... read more