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When Financial Freedom is more Important than Creative Writing!

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Trading I consider is a creative process (until I get better at creative writing) and to believe the experts you can make some money from it.  So I tell myself buy the vegetables! i.e. Australian Shares, keep them for one year for tax advantages (you pay less tax if you traded them after one year instead of the 50% tax if it's less than that). So I imagine myself a trader. It happens to be shares, but it could've been anything from tomatoes, wheat to jewellery, cars, clothes or shoes. I never ever sold anything online other than shares. I just find it tedious to photograph products and wait for strangers to contact me. Never aspired to sold anything on eBay, Amazon or any online eCommerce and perhaps I never will be. Of course, I don't do garage sales! Its scary for me to have small business, so I never entertained the idea. I started warming to the idea of blogging and making a bit of pocket money, as a hobby and not as a major hustle. For it to be ...

On blogging & which blogs I'm reading

Some people maintained their blogs on regular weekly, monthly and yearly bases. My blog was in the forgotten and neglected land. I'm aware that some bloggers generate income form their blogs, my blog had started as a personal journey for writing discoveries. So the blog wasn't the goal of itself. It was a mean to an end. Moving forward, and after reading some exceptional, & inspiring blogs, I changed my mind on blogging. The blog by itself is an art, people use it in many different ways, to inform, entertain or for self discovery. So perhaps I can delve into some topics that I'm interested in, and write about them. I wasn't in the past consistent blogger, from now I try to find my rhythm by publishing on regular basis. I'm not sure yet, if it'll be weekly, but at least I should aim to publish monthly. I admit that the blogs I enjoy reading currently are personal finance blogs and its a big & huge thing, these kind of blogs attracts many comments by si...