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Category: Financial Habits

It’s amazing how small financial habits can make a huge difference in your finances. Habits such as budgeting, saving, tracking expenses, setting goals, checking prices etc. Small and consistent daily moves will have a great impact!

Financial habits don’t need to be complex, time consuming nor difficult. They really are just small changes to ones’ mindset, being more conscious about spending and knowing your bigger picture plans.

My personal finance spreadsheet

My personal finance spreadsheet

by BrendanJanuary 18, 2021January 19, 2021Leave a comment

I update my personal finance spreadsheet almost monthly. I was sharing about it on Twitter recently when some users asked for a copy. So here is my personal finance spreadsheet. It's just a template and can be customised to suite…

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Financial Habits download, featured, Goals, keep track
Money management tips

Money management tips for 2021

by BrendanJanuary 11, 2021February 6, 2021Leave a comment

We've all had a somewhat challenging year and I thought to start the new year with some basic money management tips. Some may be things that you already do, and some hopefully are new to you, or they spark ideas…

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Financial Habits Budget, emergency fund, insurance, plan
Teach your kids about money

Teach your kids about money

by BrendanDecember 9, 2020December 9, 2020Leave a comment

South Africans are notoriously bad at saving money but wow, we can change that! Why not start to teach your kids about money? Have the conversations that you wish you had around the dinner table. Share feelings and emotions about…

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Financial Habits children, values
Personal finance for beginners

Personal finance for beginners

by Journey ManNovember 20, 2020February 25, 20212 Comments

Been a Late Starter I've really had to learn about personal finance for beginners. This is me. Learning the basics, undoing the bad habits and striving for better financial control! This is the last post in my series on being…

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Financial Habits, Late Starter debt free, take charge
Saving for emergency fund

Saving for emergency fund

by Journey ManNovember 19, 2020November 19, 20201 Comment

Given the vast amounts of information already out there, you may be asking if we really need another article on saving for an emergency fund. I worked out this week that when life happens, and the nonsense hits that fan,…

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Financial Habits, Late Starter emergency fund
Tracking my expenses

Tracking my expenses

by Journey ManNovember 17, 2020November 17, 2020Leave a comment

I decided that in order to build (improve, encourage, regain) self-control in terms of my spending habits, I need to work on my discipline. Sounds scary for some reason LOL. I can't believe it, but I have actually started tracking…

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Financial Habits, Late Starter expenses, keep track, spending plan
Knowledge vs Doing

Knowing vs Doing

by Journey ManNovember 8, 2020November 8, 2020Leave a comment

I was listening to someone this week, talking about knowing vs doing. Talking about living life the way we should, and he mentioned ‘Passion’. He said that we need to live our lives purposefully, with passion. I know exactly what…

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Financial Habits, Late Starter Budget, emergency fund
personal finance basics

Personal finance basics

by BrendanSeptember 27, 2020October 26, 20201 Comment

I had a great chat with Terence Tobin recently on personal finance basics. Some of the basic aspects that you can look at right now. Watch the recording and read as I elaborate on the topics discussed. https://youtu.be/IwKnc6JWrKY Have an…

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Financial Habits Budget, estate planning, insurance
Paying yourself first

How to pay yourself first

by BrendanJuly 20, 2020August 15, 20201 Comment

Sponsored by Nedbank Paying yourself first is one of the fundamentals of personal finance and something that’s often mentioned or written about. In fact, I recently wrote about what it means to pay yourself first, but as it’s really such…

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Financial Habits invest, save
Survival guide to 2020

A survival guide for 2020

by BrendanJuly 8, 2020September 4, 2020Leave a comment

Sponsored by Nedbank Have you caught yourself trying to scratch your nose whilst wearing a mask? Who would have thought that it could be so tricky? In fact, so much of what we know to be “normal” has changed over…

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Financial Habits cash, invest
Pay yourself first

What does “pay yourself first” even mean?

by BrendanJune 20, 2020September 14, 2020Leave a comment

To pay yourself first, simply means to prioritise saving or investing, above all other things. Instead of spending all your money and then seeing that there's nothing left to save, rather save first, and then spend what's left. A typical…

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Financial Habits invest, long-term
Personal finance behavior

Personal finance behaviour

by BrendanJune 13, 2020July 22, 2020Leave a comment

Behavioural bias; you're only human You would be naïve to think that the daily financial decisions that you make are made in isolation from your emotional ones. We're only human and our personal finance behaviour is often as unpredictable as…

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Financial Habits behaviour, long-term, plan

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