Reading Time: 3 Minutes Happy New Year everyone! It’s the beginning of a brand new decade. Exciting stuff! How was your New Year celebrations like? We had a grand old time here in old Sydney town as MrsFrugalSamurai and I spent it with our family, watching the fireworks as they herald in 2020. Importantly, the start of each new year brings with it new year’s resolutions. If you’re like me, resolutions typically involve a more active approach to health and fitness, improved career/finances and learning new things for personal and professional development. But then studies show that 4 out of 5 of us will fail our New Year Resolutions by…
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Bye Bye 2019!
Reading Time: 3 Minutes Howdy everyone! Wherever you are, hope you’re having a WONDERFUL festive season with your nearest and dearest. Although, can you believe that we are on the very last legs of the year AGAIN? Where does the time go, seriously. This will be yours truly’s last post for the year and I wanted to say a big THANK YOU to all of you for making this blog what it is. Been a whirlwind couple of years and I am genuinely stunned with the reception this blog has received since. So for the last post of 2019, I thought I’d do a quick review of how it went…
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Millionaire by 30 – How I Did It (Final Part)
Reading Time: 3 Minutes Merry Christmas 2019 everyone! How’s your Christmas going? Plenty of food and good times with your most dearly beloved I hope! MrsFrugalSamurai and I are about to head off to have dinner with the fam fam, but before that, I wanted to share a quick post to continue with this mini-series. If you joined us late, here is Part 1 and Part 2. Part 3 As mentioned at the end of Part 2, I graduated from uni and entered the full-time workforce during the GFC… in banking and financial services no less. What I saw and learnt during this time deserves a post all on its…
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Millionaire by 30 – How I Did It (Part 2)
Reading Time: 3 Minutes Annnnnd we are back peeps! First off, thank you to all those who read the previous post! We had millions of views guys! MILLIONS! Give or take a few numbers here and there. No seriously, thanks all to the wonderful support you have shown me and this blog! Could not have done it without the encouragement and kind words from the community and each one of you! (Looks around the room). But today, today we proceed to part 2 of this mini-series. Which is in response to our dear reader Rennie’s comment: “I am most intrigued by this statement in your ‘About Me’ section: “Recently, I achieved a…
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Millionaire by 30 – How I Did It (Part 1)
Reading Time: 3 Minutes Yeah, I know what you’re thinking. ANOTHER clickbait article? I’d have to say unashamedly, yes. Please bear with me though, because this post is in response to a question I received recently from a dear reader, Rennie, who asks: Hi Samurai Interesting blog. I am most intrigued by this statement in your ‘About Me’ section: “Recently, I achieved a goal I set early on of $1m in net assets before 30.” Wow! This is really remarkable, and truly newsworthy on its own. But I couldn’t find much further about it in your posts. I think you would have many more interested readers if you made a…
