Six great New Year’s Resolutions to improve your finances in 2021
Six great New Year’s Resolutions to improve your finances in 2021. These days we know there is a correlation between our financial wellbeing and our general wellbeing. We know that toxic levels of financial stress impacts us in many different ways, it affects our relationships, our self-esteem, our social life, our productivity at work, even […]
How to stop spending too much at Christmas
How to stop spending too much at Christmas. Christmas is by far the busiest time of the year for shopping and many of us deal with the pressure and financial stress of the annual retail frenzy with an increasingly popular new behaviour – self-gifting. If you’re not familiar with the concept of self-gifting, you might […]
Happy holidays: stress less with mindfulness this Christmas
Happy holidays: stress less with mindfulness this Christmas. Christmas and the holidays are mostly feelgood times. At least the ideas behind them are positive, but that doesn’t mean they aren’t stressful. Clinical Neuropsychologist Dr Michael Takagi, says there’s plenty of evidence to show stress comes from happy occasions too: “Planning a wedding is a joyful, […]
Want to avoid financial stress: ask yourself these questions
Want to avoid financial stress: ask yourself these questions. There’s never been so many options for accessing cash quickly as there are today, and that’s very appealing around this time of year – especially this year, with many more people unemployed as a result of the ‘pandemic induced’ economic disruption. Nobody wants to be in […]