Warning: I’m so busy these days I don’t have time to do nice editing and correction of typos but whenever I have something I think needs to be logged for others I just slam it out. Apologies for the lack of polish but hopefully the content is valuable. After I took so many days to finally set up my business…
Category: Investing
What Equity Should a Child of God Focus On?
Someone I know shared this text message conversation about a business decision really got me thinking: Person A: What do you have to give up to get their $ ? Person B: I don’t care what I have to give up as long as I get a small piece of a much larger pie. I’ve learned success is largely about…
Vancouver Real Estate Roller Coaster
Just so you know, like Ecclesiastes and the Byrds said, for everything there is a season and a time. There is a time to live and a time to die. A time to sow and a time to reap. A time to buy an investment and a time to sell it. And, based on a tear-down 60 year old house…
8 Secrets of Success – Wayne Out There Approved List
Well, here it is. A perfect summary of the secrets to success. I can tell you they are true because I have personally failed some of them, if not most of them, and as a result, go figure, I’m not wildly successful – yet. Awareness is a critical thing though. Ignorance is not bliss as much as we joke that…
Great Article to Quickly Review Our Financial and Investment Literacy
This is a great article to quickly reveal how much we *don’t* know about $$ and what we need to do. Thanks to my friend Paul who forwarded this article to me. I think these are most painful to me because I remember sitting there in high school having a classmate explain to me the importance of compound interest and…
Why Visa Points and Visa Dollars are Worthless
I just wanted to write a quick post about my experience with my Coast Capital Savings Visa Desjardins and the ‘visa bonus dollars’ program they have. First, as an FYI, if you do not pay $30/year annual fee you get .05% of purchases converted into bonus dollars instead of the whopping 1%… For the longest time we couldn’t figure out…
Is a House a Great Investment?
This is a SUPER video to demonstrate how you have to be very careful when you buy a home and talk about it as an ‘investment’. It may be one of the *worst* investments you could make. Please note that even though this video is excellent, it doesn’t talk about other very important factors like the fact that you have…
Why I’m Closing Down my Primerica Deferred Sales Charge (DSC) AGF Account
Last Update to Dialogue: 15-01-14 It seems this is turning into a dialogue which I will update as they come in. I will put the date of the most recent response at the top of the blog post. Below is my response to my Primerica sales rep when he asked why I was shutting down/transferring out my AGF DSC account. …