Just a Kiwi Striving for FIRE
This will be short, sweet, and might just make you a millionaire. 752 - the magic number that is going to change the way you look at money and spending. When you think about your spending how do you frame it? Most people might frame it on a weekly basis, some a monthly, the odd …
Continue reading Change Your Mindset – It Might Just Save You A Million Dollars
So if you're new to all of this you may have noticed me and a lot of other finance bloggers talking about FIRE. But what is it and why do I want to achieve it? FIRE stands for Financial Independence Retire Early, it is the concept of building up enough in investments that you are paid a passive income through dividends or returns thus enabling yourself to live without working.
Emotion - it's a savvy investors worst enemy, let it seep into your decision making and you're going to end up hurt. Emotion and misplaced faith in a company are what lost me 100% of my investment. So far my worst investment yet. It was about a year into my dabbling in the stock market, so far I had purchased only large NZX50 companies such as Summerset, Air New Zealand, and Chorus. They all turned out to be solid investments and reasonably safe.
Let's have a quick chat about fees. You slave away like a minion 40 hours a week diligently contributing your hard-earned moolah to your KiwiSaver (if you're not contributing, here's why you should be) so hopefully one day in the hopefully near future you might be able to join in the craze of purchasing some brick and mortar. And in the hopefully not too near future, you can enjoy a nice game of bingo with the other pensioners without having to worry about who's paying the power.
