Monthly Archives: July 2020

Month: July 2020
Retirement

Having enough in retirement

We hope that we can retire with enough life left in us to enjoy all the things that took a backseat during our working years. We want enough money to be comfortable and safe in the knowledge we won’t run out of money and have to go back to work, unless of course we want to.

With all this in mind, you probably want to place a dollar figure on how much you need to save now, to be able to retire comfortably. That number is your individual number as it will be based on your individual circumstances – where and how you want to live, your assets and debts, whether you have dependants or not and the type of lifestyle you live. It will also change based on the type of investments you hold and the returns on your investments

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July 9, 2020 No Comments
Education

6 SIMPLE RITUALS FOR OVERCOMING STRESS & ANXIETY

How often do you feel you are burning your candle at both ends? That no matter how hard you try to destress or what boundaries you set, the to-do list gets longer and you find it harder to catch your breath? Even with businesses shutting down and our usual activities ceasing, somehow we’re still just as busy as before. We’re filling up our free time with activities and home workouts and picking up new hobbies, and it’s exhausting. This kind of burnout has been getting the better of our generation and we’re starting to fall victim to it from a very young age. The constant strive for productivity is making us unproductive.

The hardest thing about the society we built is that it has become increasingly difficult to extract ourselves from triggers; work, illness, racism, pandemics, environmental crisis’, social media… The list itself is endless. But one thing I found that helped me has been building a ‘medicine cabinet’ of rituals that I can treat myself to when I start to feel anxious or overwhelmed. Here are a few rituals that may help you too.

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July 3, 2020 No Comments

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