Sales & Marketing

Why The Search For Passive Income Is A Mistake

Wow. Last week, I published a post asking you what you’d like to see on cheerfulegg that could make a difference in your life. A BUNCH of you emailed me back with super awesome suggestions. (Side note: The amount of email that I get from cheerfulegg has quadrupled over the past couple of months, so […]

Money & Travel

Why You Should Buy Anything You Want

So my girlfriend had an epiphany recently: She wants to buy a car. Not some boring old Toyota Camry, mind you (no offense to the Toyota Camry drivers reading this), but a sexy, sporty Mazda MX 5.  Why now? Because she realized that she’ll only look cool driving a sports car while she’s still young.

Money & Travel

The #1 Way To Accelerate Your Investments

Most Singaporeans (including myself) have incredibly high expectations for everything we do. For example, I found myself getting pissed because I missed the MRT by 2 seconds last night and I had to wait SEVEN WHOLE MINUTES for the next one. Seven minutes!! (Never mind that in other countries, waiting ten minutes for the subway

Money & Travel

My Interview With Big Fat Purse

I recently met up with Alvin and Jon from BigFatPurse.com (I know right, that’s a freakin’ awesome name) to talk about my hot-off-the-press ebook Automatic Investing: The No-Stress Guide to Index Investing in Singapore. You can check out the interview here. You know the feeling when you’re traveling overseas, and you meet some fellow Singaporeans at

Money & Travel

3 Reasons Why I Stopped Reading Trading Books

Readers who follow my blog will know that I’m a huge weirdo. For example, I used to be obsessed over trading books. I’d spend hours in the “investing” section at Kinokuniya and Borders devouring mountains and mountains of books. (Fact: When Borders closed, I ran out into the rain, turned my head to the sky

Money & Travel

One-Sentence Financial Rules

When it comes to investing, most of the really important stuff is actually really simple. It only sounds complicated because your financial planner wants to confuse you even further so he can charge you even more money. In a recent blogpost, I mentioned that the two most important things you need to know about investing are:

Money & Travel

How To Invest While Having A Life

First, a quick announcement: This Sunday, at 9am Singapore Time, I’m going to release Automatic Investing to the world. By this point you’re either really excited about it or are really tired of hearing about it. Either way, we’ll be underway soon. 🙂 The Most Valuable Currency Of All Today, I want to talk about

Money & Travel

The Biggest Mistake That Beginner Investors Make

Let’s say that you wanted to learn tennis. What’s the first thing you should focus on? Should you figure out which racquet to buy? Whether it has a leather grip or fiberglass frame? Should you buy shoes that suit the surface you’re playing on? No, you weirdo. The first thing you should do is grab

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