Smart Money Mindset

Salary Negotiation – How I Helped a Friend Get a 7 Times Larger Pay Rise

Making sure you get paid what you are worth can be difficult, especially if you have just been offered a great job. But don’t be shy, and remove the myths about salary negotiation from your brain, because if you don’t, they can prevent you from getting the salary you deserve. I used these principles recently [...]

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Watching TV? You’re Committing Financial Suicide!

Like watching TV or movies? You could be programming your brain for financial suicide! TV and movies are full of false values or beliefs, also known as “Memes”, that we pick up and believe in without even realising. Some of the worst are around money and wealth. By getting these into your head you could be [...]

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How Being Too Polite Costs You Money

Here’s some advice on using negotiation tactics learnt from Indian parents to save yourself plenty of money. One thing about being the child of Indian parents is that you get to see them in operation across a number of areas – feeding 200 members of family with a highly effective mobile kitchen infantry unit; fitting 200 [...]

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