2016 Flashback – Travel Sharing a flashback on the travel, customer visits, and property purchasing Kel and Marisa did in 2016. What a busy time but this shares the travel lifestyle that is possible when you run multiple businesses. You will notice 4 x training events, and investor conference training completed within the year....

NEWS: Inflation or Deflation? NEWS: Deutsche Bank warns the global economy is ‘sitting on a time bomb’ BUT: Pause for a minute! While some warn of inflation ahead, others warn of an economic depression. Given the amount of currency debasement occurring around the world (and yes even in Australia) either option is on the...

What Is Financial Freedom? There are many definitions as to what financial freedom may be. Some say financial freedom is living a life without any debts while others say financial freedom is a function of time or money or a combination of both. The function of time, meaning setting targets and coming up with...

How the Wealthy Play the Game of Tax One of the things that separates the wealthy from the middle class is how they play the Game of Tax. Most people strictly follow the laws set by the government not realizing that there are loopholes you can use, like how the wealthy continuously look for one that would benefit...

If Millionaires Track Their Money, So Should You A question for you. Do you keep track of your money? Or do you like to spend and forget? Before I ventured into business, before all the training and reading of the right books, I had this common image of the rich stamped on my mind. It’s the common idea...

Align Your Dreams with Your Financial Plan Life is too short to put your dreams on hold – that’s not an inspirational quote, just plain, hard truth. Without realizing it, you have withered away doing your regular 9-5 routine and nowhere near where you envisioned yourself to be at middle age. If you’re lucky you may have...

The New “Rich” Standard In Australia the definite figure to be truly rich is $5.3 Million – this according to a study by Finder. A million dollars is not enough anymore. You need to have five times more to be worthy of the “rich” tag. To be a millionaire you need to be a...

Overcoming Fear in Starting A Business (Again) Starting a business is exciting but it also has risks. The possibility of failure is still there even with the best-laid plans and this is why many startups collapse before it even starts to operate. This feeling of vulnerability can easily turn into fear and fear can lead to paralysis....

Can Your Business Survive if You Travel the World? Achieving freedom in your business demands intentional action. As the brainchild of the company, it is normal that you struggle with the thought of letting your team work with minimal supervision.  However, if you want your business to grow without shackling yourself to it, it must run on its own. So,...

Best Practices for Property Rental Owners Renting out properties might seem very straightforward but you need to cover the basics well especially if you are just starting out in the business or you have plans expanding your property listing. Getting it right in the early stages can spare you from unprofitable situations later on. Here are...

Good Or Bad Debt? Old school financial advice will tell people you must do everything to steer clear from debts, all kind of debts. While the intention is good, it can also be a blunder towards leveraging debts to create wealth. While middle income families are leaning towards bad debts, the financially literate are...

Have Business, No Freedom? This is rather a common situation for many entrepreneurs today. They successfully got out of employment, they have built a solid business plan and executed it, they are partially successful in their transition, they are probably earning better, but they are also now unable to take a break from managing...

5 Ways Not To Get Rich Even the most successful business executives can fail in managing their personal finance. Not doing well on this area is not surprising. Financial literacy is not taught in schools. Robert Kiyosaki sees this as the primary reason why people are making wrong money decisions way into their adult lives. Getting...

Business Success And Self-Motivation All motivation is self-motivation. You can listen to the best motivational speaker in the world every day, you can hire the best business coach in town, or you can buy all the inspirational books you see on the shelves but without that internal push, all is just a waste. I...

Business Owner and Employed? Many aspiring entrepreneurs quit their jobs when they start running their business. But even if you are on your way to your millions, there is still a need to put food on the table. Sure, devoting your time to your start-up provides you with focus and perhaps faster results. But...

Property Investment for Beginners: 3 Questions to Ask Property investment can be lucrative but it can also be brutal to newbies. You need to have the skill to read the real estate market, identify and seize good deals, and grow your listing by leveraging on other people’s money. But where do you start? For many people the farthest...

The Real Score of Financial Freedom Financial freedom can be defined in so many ways. With many experts jumping into the money freedom bandwagon, it is easy to confuse the many ideas about it with other related concepts like wealth creation and entrepreneurship. However, to me it is very simple. It is affording the lifestyle that...

All The Income, None of The Work? Owning a business is one of the best ways to move away from employment and exit the rat race. The clincher? You need to set up your business to run successfully even without you on its helm. Without this element built into your venture you are just changing your money...

Why Teach Financial Literacy Early? The economic problems of many countries today are caused by financially illiterate population. If we want to improve the odds of future generations in surviving economic crises (or not causing one), we need to start young in imparting money skills. Where do we start? Students, including your own kids! Teens...

10 Business Advice For Millennials Business ownership among millennials is low compared to previous generations. Many experts believe this is because millennials are not really the profit-hungry kind. Regardless of the reasons, business start-up rate among people ages 20 to 34 peaked only at 35% and this has been steadily declining since 1996, this according...

Change Is Good (Only If You Expect It) Jack Welch said it best – “change before you have to”. Adapting to change becomes a competitive advantage when you are the first one to embrace the new reality. Changing before the need arise means having all the time to roll out new products or services or being the first...

Sharing the Cashflow Game Lessons During our visit in the Philippines, I spent 7 hours teaching and sharing lessons about business and financial freedom to the Greymouse team leaders and marketing team. During the training, we paused and allowed the team members to share their lessons as part of the debrief, using the same process...

I Hate My Business! This is one of the most common burn-out statements by people engaged in a business. Truly, entrepreneurship is not for everybody. That being said, it is easy to throw in the towel when the going gets tough. But most business owners often fail to see the bigger picture – when...

Working Hard But Not Getting Anywhere? Do you feel like you are working hard but getting nowhere? Are you slogging away each day at your job or business, but realise that there is little headway, money or wealth to show at the end of the day? Have you noticed that the majority of people either work...

The 13 Year-Old Entrepreneur Is Building His Business Kai takes a break from building his business and book writing. Playing games is his pastime so he is back into Gmod. Kai is a Geek and has the joys and challenges of any geek, including communicating with girls. So he is  creating a physical book, virtual book, t-shirts, products...

13 Year-Old Entrepreneur Creates Passive Income In one of my articles, I've shared with you the story of my 13 year-old nephew, Kai, and his passion for business. Now Kai is with me, his dad Chris and Marisa here in the Philippines, to expand his knowledge in business and learn from our marketing team. Kai wanted to create...

After The Business Training – My Realizations Just to let you know that the training idea I developed a few years ago was delivered, and now I AM TOTALLY STUFFED! The concept of physical training, following the chapters of the books I wrote and the process worked! It was a full on three days, with five people...

The Journey Is Hard Entrepreneurship. If you are expecting me to give you a quick tip or want me to share an easy path to entrepreneurship and wealth, you should stop reading now. The dream of easy wealth sits beside a crystal ball, magic genie or maybe even a magic lamp. It is not...

13 Year-Old Entrepreneur In the Business Freedom Lifestyle training course in Fiji, I shared the story of my 13 year old nephew who saved his pocket money at the age of 9 and put that towards buying Nintendo and Wii games and consoles. Instead of keeping these, he then packed up the different...

If You Lose It All Kelvin, What Will You Do? How would I start all over again? Is a very, very good question. Before I answer, does this happen? Yes, all too frequently. Unfortunate events including separation, divorce, family arguments, accidents, litigation events, health issues, fire etc. cause life to go back to square one. First and foremost, whatever business...

Gaining Inspiration From Our Latest Rich Dad Company Visit Marisa and I had the pleasure of visiting the Rich Dad Company office in Scottsdale Arizona, USA two weeks ago. I started following Robert and Kim Kiyosaki’s Rich Dad teachings in 2000. Since then, I have learned and adopted their philosophy, structure and principles in much of what I do personally...