Developing mental toughness using ancient Stoic customs

LEARNING FROM MICHAEL JORDAN AND MARCUS AURELIUS

As a child I was huge Michael Jordan fan, as were many other sports fans. For me he is the absolute epitome of mental toughness.

Right now, I am partway through a series that documents Michael Jordan’s last basketball season with the Chicago Bulls. The Last Dance is a great documentary even for those who are not basketball fans. The series offers you a view into the life of one of the world’s greatest competitive sportsmen ever.

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Turbo charge your pension with the power of compounding

With time and patience, compounding can give your pension efforts a massive boost. Find out more about this little-known financial marvel…

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Where to, Mr. Market? An Economic Outlook by Dr. Constantin Gurdgiev

Driven by the combination of the expected positive fundamentals (namely, forecasts for a robust V-shaped recovery in the U.S.followed by fast-paced recoveries in the emerging markets) and by unprecedented monetary policy developments through 2022, global equities have entered a new bull market phase. Left unperturbed, investors’ expectations are likely to drive markets higher in the medium term, irrespective of the underlying individual assets’ fundamentals. Put differently, we are in the hype period of asset markets valuations, when corporate finance, as a discipline, matters none to the bullish buyers.

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Turbo charge your investment with the power of compounding

With time and patience, compounding can give your saving or investment efforts a massive boost. Find out more about this little-known financial marvel…

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Get Financially Fit While in Lockdown

Let’s start with the most important point. Staying healthy and helping to flatten the Covid-19 curve is the reason behind the current lockdown, and this is where our focus needs to be. We’re doing this for ourselves, our families, our cocooned loved ones and the wider population. This is the most important focus for all of us.

At the same time though the world doesn’t stop turning, albeit on a slightly different axis. Loss of jobs and income has unfortunately been an outcome of the current crisis for many people, who now have financial pressure heaped on them too. We would like to set out a few thoughts on how you can emerge from the current crisis in the best financial shape possible whether or not your income has been affected.

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