With the tiny home movement in full swing, many people are downsizing their homes to something much smaller. City dwellers are trading living space for location and convenience. With home taxes, insurance, utility and upkeep costs rising every day, you may end up asking yourself if you really need all the space you now… Read more
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Happy New Year! What are your resolutions?
Hey, it’s almost new year 🙂 I’ll get ahead and jump straight to 2014, what are your resolutions? Mine are Health: Run 3 times a week, swim every day. I already run 3 times a week with decent consistency, except when it rains a lot. The daily swim is easy after a run because… Read more
Totally Unrealistic Resolutions
A big happy new year to everyone. I had planned to write this post a few days ago so that I wouldn’t need to write hungover, but unfortunately that did not happen. I refuse to admit that this was down to bad planning, rather I decided my time would be better spent with family!… Read more
Change Your Life – Step 9 Find Yourself
As we approach the end of this 10 part series, hopefully you have picked up at least a couple of pointers and made a change or two. Small steps make a big change.. ever heard of the butterfly effect? Like the saying goes ‘A small mistake you commit can create blunders later’ – small improvements… Read more
Change Your Life – 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
Change Your Life – Step 6 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
The Benefits and Risks of Contracting
Hello Everyone! Today I bring you a guest post on the Pros and Risks of Contracting. A very relevant topic for my fellow freelancers out there and some great tips. I have added my thoughts throughout and have a question for you at the end! If you are thinking about changing from permanent employment to… Read more
Change Your Life – Step 5 Learn New Skills
If you are new to the Change Your Life series then you can catch up with the following articles from the series: Part 1 – Exercise Part 2 – Eating Healthily Part 3 – Get Knowledge Part 4 – Your Appearance This week’s addition to the change your life series involves learning new skills. This… Read more
5 Things Hurricane Sandy Can Teach Us
As I am sure the whole world knows, 50 million people on east coast of North America are embracing themselves for the arrival of Hurricane Sandy. Public transport is grounded and over 7000 flights have been postponed. The storm has already taken 60 lives, has disrupted the presidential campaign and shut down Wall Street for… Read more
Change Your Life Series – Step 3 Knowledge
For those of you who are new to the ‘Change Your Life Series’ then fear not – there is still time to make a huge difference. Here’s what you have missed out on: Part 1 – Exercise Part 2 – Eating Healthily Part 3 – Get Smart & Learn You will be pleased to hear… Read more
Change Your Life Series – Step 2 Eat Healthily
Have you joined the cool kids as a subscriber of SavvyScot.com yet? ——–> Last week we started the Change Your Life Series; a series of ten blog posts that (if followed) will change your life – guaranteed! The first post was centered around Exercise. For the last seven days you have been slowly increasing… Read more
Change Your Life Series – Step 1 Exercise
Back in February when I founded SavvyScot.com I wanted to help people make a change in their lives. That change could be a financial change, or it could be something else. While I don’t claim to know everything about money (in fact most of my knowledge comes from my interest in personal finance and what… Read more