There is a type of personality in the investment world called the perpetual punter. Picking winners and finding good deals is their stock in trade. They strategically scour the internet and agents windows looking for “deals of a lifetime” – that no-one else can see and that somehow magically appear exactly when the punter is […]
Red eyed with a coffee stained desk, the mathematical madman constructs ever more complicated mathematical formulas – one building impressively upon the other. The mathematical “constructs” and spreadsheets look so glorious that the path to wealth becomes clear and certain. If only normal people could see what he can see…….until reality hits and the figures […]
They say that humans are motivated mostly by two things: a) money and b) recognition – and their subconscious minds don’t care much about which one of the two they get. However, better still is to have both money AND recognition. Humans need recognition to feel accepted and to feel as if they are “someone”. […]
Or at least starting out poor is a good thing. If you have always been rich, there is no relevance or joy to it. You have nothing to compare with. Being rich would be normal for you. Being able to pay the largest bills, enjoy the best luxuries, buy the best cars, buy the best […]
The human race has always been wired to go without and to feel pain – for the sake of some future benefit. It has always been the case that the future is a place with threats and danger embedded in it. That was the reason in past times for such misguided rituals as human and […]
As you might know, the Canterbury “tools of trade” enable [for example] clients to pay off a typical 20 year home loan in say 3 years, then build an impressive portfolio of assorted growth assets that increase in value over time and provide ever increasing passive incomes – and all of this happens without increasing […]
As Noel Whittaker says “Business is a game where the winner is the person who holds the most growth assets the longest time”. In other words, the more assets you own and the longer you own them, the richer you will get. Some people overlook that a great deal of their wealth can be held […]
There is no such thing as standing still financially. You are either improving or failing. If you think you are staying still, keeping your head above water, not going backwards – guess what, in real terms you are going backwards – and the speed at which that happens increases over time. Look at it this […]
Think about it. People spend their lives trying to become financially strong so that they can “pick the fruit” and enjoy life during their retirement years. But that rarely happens. It’s a life-long fallacy for nearly every person. When the time comes after 65 years of age to pick the fruit, there is no fruit. […]
You can “have your cake and eat it too” in the business world. One success leads always leads to another success. As every Canterbury client knows, step one in real wealth creation is to eliminate non tax deductible debt i.e. to pay off your home loan. Every so often, Canterbury carry out a free raffle […]