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Problem and power
The problem should never be allowed to have the power. If it does it will always be a problem. If creativity towards the problem is given the power then it soon fades. Focus on the creativity not the "problem". It's what you then create will have the problem...
Transitions
Thoughts from our wellbeing coach, Suzan Issa: Life is filled with a series of transitions, each posing its own set of challenges. As creatures of habit, we become accustomed to routines, patterns, and expectations, making it particularly unsettling when these are...
TCFP104: 30 Things in 30 Years in Financial Services
2024 marks 30 years of me working in financial services, I started as a Trainee Broker Consultant at the Croydon branch of Scottish Equitable in October 1994. What lessons have I learned? More than I can remember, but below are 30 that came to me when I gave it...
Go to the corners
I was walking Frankie in a rectangular field the other day, where many others walk. A clear path has formed what I noticed is that it does not go into the corners – all the corners are cut. Cutting corners comes easily to us, but it’s not always to our benefit, for...
Time For Change?
Does our voting system work? Are the right people governing us? Or are they simply as collection of unemployable chancers? Has it always been so? Are these outcomes acceptable in any way at all? https://www.visualcapitalist.com/youth-unemployment-in-oecd-and-china/ or...
Boring
It is peculiar the lengths we go to get in the way of ourselves. The thoughts we have about what we can and can’t do, will or won’t like, backed up by the scantiest of evidence. Take getting better at something. It needs practice, but the thought of practice for many...
The Crypto Diaries…
Crypto and other digital assets are completely unregulated and can be hugely damaging to your wealth. Complete loss of your entire investment is a very real possibility. If you cannot afford to lose it, your cannot afford crypto. Crypto assets come in all shapes and...
The Big Wheel
As Massive Attack advised us in 1991 with the “Hymn Of The Big Wheel”, the big wheel keeps on turning. After two years of investment malaise from December 2021 until November 2023 equity markets have picked up considerably and returned something like 15% these last...
ICM: Notes from the 5 March meeting
The TCFP investment committee met on 5 March to discuss the current economic, political and investment environment. As a result the TCFP Model Portfolio remains unchanged. Here are brief notes of our discussion: Politics The big news for 2024 is that half the...
TCFP105: What I Learned from Disney World About Running My Business (And Planning Our Next Big Trip)
Recently we spent a week at Disneyworld in Florida. And what I experienced there reminded me of why I try to run and work in TCFP the way I do. We opted for a seven-night stay at a Disney resort, granting us access to all six parks in the vicinity. Six parks over six...
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