I started serious Investing Journey in Jan 2000 to create wealth through long-term investing and short-term trading; but as from April 2013 my Journey in Investing has changed to create Retirement Income for Life till 85 years old in 2041 for two persons over market cycles of Bull and Bear.

Since 2017 after retiring from full-time job as employee; I am moving towards Investing Nirvana - Freehold Investment Income for Life investing strategy where 100% of investment income from portfolio investment is cashed out to support household expenses i.e. not a single cent of re-investing!

It is 57% (2017 to Aug 2022) to the Land of Investing Nirvana - Freehold Income for Life!


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Sunday 12 June 2016

Less Is More - Simplfy it Whatever Thing We Really Care!


Less Is More ... Look at the final number or outcome!

Uncle8888 was no different; he also started by tracking every single expense and transaction to know his household expenses and to manage his budget; but slowly he began to realize that this type of detailed tracking and tabulating was sucking away his time.

It was not much fun doing them either. He was spending up to 2 minutes per expense or transaction doing tracking and recording and slowly these activities added up! Suck man!


Read? Two Bank Accounts? No, You may need Four! - (4)

Less Tracking. More Big?

What we really care or concern is how Big?

Ultimately, we just  need to know how big has this number happened in the past and how often have other similar big numbers also happened?

” If you have a worry problem, do these three things:

1. Ask yourself: “What is the worst that can possibly happen?”

2. Prepare to accept it if you have to.

3. Then calmly proceed to improve on the worst.”


(Carnegie 49)


Once we know the biggest Number, we learned from this wise man of History and help ourselves.

Dedicated one bank account to track all our household expenses to know the Big Number. That is what we need to know to overcome our worries on not having enough money!

Once the Big Number is taken care; the rest of the smaller numbers are peanuts? LOL!









5 comments:

  1. Can't we spend less time and effort to achieve reasonable outcome? No?

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  2. CW,

    It's a process or journey.

    Tracking and monitoring are just tools (clutches or sampan) to help us determine WHERE we are - how far we have journeyed from our starting point; and how far still to go to our desired destination.

    Once we have reached our destination, you'll be surprised how many still cling on to their clutches; or carry the sampan over their heads when they are already on dry lands ;)

    Somebody is 50 steps laughing at 100 steps...

    LOL!

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    1. How not to laugh by Grasshoppers?

      Ants may have to do these.

      (1) Use Inflatable sampan to cross

      (2) Use foldable bike to cycle


      When I go for my long distance jog, I will bring some cash and Translink fare card for contingency if I decided not to jog all the way back. This is how Ant like to think and plan.

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  3. Uncle 8888

    Out of topic abit if I'm out of track.

    Used to only look at investment port folio, however these past 2 months, I reflected and tracked warchest, investment holdings and emergency funds as a whole portfolio to see the overall. ( this is good as circumstances changes) and like uncle 8888, I start to use pie chart and Bar chart.

    Qualitative and Quantitative.

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