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The Savvy Scot

Personal finance and lifestyle blog

Saving Money with Green Business Improvements

By savvyscot

Green Business Improvements

When it comes to making improvements to your business, the first thing that likely comes to mind is a brand new office, maybe upgrading the company vehicles, or hardware such as computers/phones/peripherals. In reality, the same principles apply to your own home. One thing that may not be at the top of the list, but… Read more

Filed Under: Futurism, Reflection Tagged With: business improvements, Go Green, green business improvements, recycle and save money, save money by going green, save money by protecting the climate

Can NLP Help You Make More Money?

By savvyscot

Neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) is an evolving field of study and training which incorporates a set of models that seek to explain human behaviour and communication, and a set of techniques designed to help people change the way they think and act. If you think that by going on an NLP training course you’ll somehow be able… Read more

Filed Under: Guest Posts Tagged With: Make money with NLP, NLP, NLP make money, purpose of NLP, what is NLP

Do young people need to think differently about retirement?

By savvyscot

Do young people need to think differently about retirement? There have been a few studies recently that have provided some worrying insights into the attitudes of Britain’s young population to planning for their retirement. #retirement #retired

There have been a few studies recently that have provided some worrying insights into the attitudes of Britain’s young population to planning for their retirement. The figures paint a picture of a generation with surprisingly healthy savings habits, but totally unrealistic expectations about their future financial situation. The Telegraph recently reported on a survey carried… Read more

Filed Under: Saving Money Tagged With: getting on the property ladder, Saving for retirement, saving for the future

Savvy Scot Does the Lifestyle Carnival

By savvyscot

Lifestyle Carnival

Welcome to the Lifestyle Carnival! Today I have the pleasure of hosting an edition of what is an extremely diverse and fun carnival. I actually ended up spending a good hour reading through some of the below newly discovered blogs and what is some excellent reading! P.S. Have you signed up for the monthly Savvy… Read more

Filed Under: Growing a Blog Tagged With: blog carnvials, blog review, blogs on lifestyle, blogs on retirement, blogs on wealth, lifestyle, lifetstyle carnival, top blog posts, Top Blogs, travel blogs

Change Your Life – Step 7 Improve Your Social Life

By savvyscot

Step 7 Improve Your Social Life

Need to play catchup? Part 1 – Exercise Part 2 – Eating Healthily Part 3 – Get Knowledge Part 4 – Your Appearance Part 5 – Learn New Skills Part 6 – Fix Your Wardrobe So you have followed steps 1 through 6 and you are well on your way to making a significant change… Read more

Filed Under: Change, Personal Finance, Reflection, Self Development Tagged With: change life, change social life, how to change my life, how to make friends, ideas to make friends, importance of being social, improve on social skills, improve social skills, make a change to my life, make friends, reasons to have friends, social change, social life

An Exciting Passive Income

By savvyscot

I have a confession to make. I get bored very easily. All my life, I have had a passion for trying new things. As a child I tried Judo, tennis, swimming, skiing, canoeing, played the piano, drums, baritone, guitar… I grew up and started boxing, I tried MMA and power lifting. I have dived, skydived,… Read more

Filed Under: Money Making Tagged With: Forex, make money trading currency, Passive Income, passive income stream, Trading currency, what is currency trading?

People Got Me Questioning – Where is the LOVE?

By savvyscot

Love

It’s been another mad few weeks at SavvyScot HQ. I spent the weekend in central London – dining in Chinatown and visiting the Olympic Stadium. It is sad that the whole place looks like a ghost town! We also got tickets to see the Lion King in the West End which was absolutely incredible! With… Read more

Filed Under: Reflection Tagged With: link love, lion king, lion king london west end, personal finance posts, pf posts, top finance posts, Top Posts

5 Things I am Truly Grateful For

By savvyscot

Hello everyone. It’s been a while since I had a general update post. I have missed two Sunday Reviews now and I apologise to my blogger friends for the lack of link love. I am also very thankful that lots of fantastic people still mentioned The Savvy Scot when I wasn’t able to return the… Read more

Filed Under: Competitions, Self Development Tagged With: $100, $100 giveaway, 5 things I am grateful for, 5 things to be thankful for, being thankful, Thanksgiving

Banking is no Different in Dubai!

By savvyscot

Today I have a guest post about living abroad and some of the things to consider when it comes to opening a bank account. Enjoy These days, few of us can live without a debit or credit card. And that handy little piece of nondescript plastic could prove especially useful for anyone contemplating moving themselves… Read more

Filed Under: Guest Posts Tagged With: bank accounts abroad, Banking, Banking abroad, Dubai

Felix Baumgartner – Crazy Risk Taker or Calculated Genius?

By savvyscot

Risk Taker

For those of you who have been following this blog for a while, you will know that I like to think of myself as a little bit of an adrenaline junkie. From fast motorbikes to free climbing and diving with sharks to diving out of planes – I love it all. When I told my… Read more

Filed Under: Adrenaline Junkie, Entertainment, Self Development Tagged With: Adrenaline Junkie, attitudes to risk, Finance risks, Mitigating Risks, Personal Finance Risks, Risk Taking, risks with money, tackling risks, Taking Risks

Changing the Future of Investing

By savvyscot

Future of Investing

A couple of months back, a company calledrPlan got in touch with me. I am usually very skeptical about almost most emails/inquiries that I receive through SavvyScot if I’m honest… from dodgy freelancers who want to write a post in exchange for 100 high quality link backs, to people wanting to buy the blog outright;… Read more

Filed Under: Investing Tagged With: analyse portfolio, investing, investing made easy, investments, portfolio analytics, rPlan

Change Your Life – Step 6 Fix Your Wardrobe

By savvyscot

Fix Your Wardrobe

Past posts from the Change Your Life Series are as follows: Part 1 – Exercise Part 2 – Eating Healthily Part 3 – Get Knowledge Part 4 – Your Appearance Part 5 – Learn New Skills Be Smart and Get Smart A lot of people have a problem when it comes to their wardrobe. It… Read more

Filed Under: Change, Self Development Tagged With: change life, change your dress, Change Your Life, Dress to impress, how to impress with wardrobe, importance of fashion, why to dress well

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