Ready to take control of your finances and build a life you're truly excited about? With simple, practical tools that work, I'm here to help you make smarter financial moves, build solid foundations, get into investing, grow your wealth, and live confidently. This is your zero-fluff space to turn financial dreams into real possibilities for Irish professionals—because your future deserves nothing less.
The Cheshire Cat was onto something....
Reader,
Alice: “Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?”
The Cheshire Cat: “That depends a good deal on where you want to get to.”
Alice: “I don’t much care where.”
The Cheshire Cat: “Then it doesn’t much matter which way you go.”
The Cheshire Cat was onto something when it came to results.
More specifically, that subsection of results we like to call goals.
Thinking we can drift along without a destination, hoping to stumble upon wealth, is akin to Alice being lost in the woods, not knowing which path to take. If she gets there, wherever 'there' is, it’s just dumb luck.
Like them or not, the truth is goals are your North Star guiding your money journey.
Without defined goals
- Financial decisions can’t be informed, leading to missed opportunities and misplaced priorities. We become resentful.
- Lacking goals leads to no accountability or direction, hobbling progress and growth. We get frustrated.
- Our well-being takes a hit. We become stressed.
How to create your goals
See the importance of setting clear and measurable financial goals. They act as a map through the dark forest of life towards financial ease.
Learn effective goal-setting strategies. Understand the power of creating clear, specific, stepwise, achievable goals.
Do regularly check in and re-align your goals to match your evolving life circumstances. Stay accountable. It will keep you on the right track.
Your personal goals point you in the right direction and let you know the next step.
If in doubt, think, what would the Cheshire Cat say…
“I am not crazy; my reality is just different from yours.”
You design your reality through your goals.
This week's reads and resources
- The podcast I’m listening to - The Diary of a CEO Steven Bartlett the simple mission of un-filtering success and giving you the knowledge you need to create the life you want.
- Key Tool - The Money Question you must ask yourself every single day.
- The book I'm reading: Atomic Habits by James Clear. Anyone who's anyone knows this book? If you haven't read it and want to truly change your life; then now is your time.
“Only a few find the way, some don’t recognize it when they do – some… don’t ever want to.”
Cheshire Cat
More money, more freedom, more happiness,
Kel 'Lewis Carroll the right-brained genius' Galavan
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Ready to take control of your finances and build a life you're truly excited about? With simple, practical tools that work, I'm here to help you make smarter financial moves, build solid foundations, get into investing, grow your wealth, and live confidently. This is your zero-fluff space to turn financial dreams into real possibilities for Irish professionals—because your future deserves nothing less.
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