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The Savvy Scot

Personal finance and lifestyle blog

Viewing category: Reflection

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

Change Your Life – Step 7 Improve Your Social Life

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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

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

The 25 Year Growth of Average Wages

By savvyscot

wage increases

There are numerous reports on how the average wage has varied in the UK over the last 25 years. Let’s take a look at the following infographic: The above infographic shows us how wage increases have varied by percentile of earners over the last 25 years. The graph essentially shows that top earners pay has… Read more

Filed Under: Reflection, Saving Money Tagged With: Average Wage, Change in average wage, Citizen Advice, Debt consolidation, IVA, Payplan, Top percentile of earners, Trustdeed

How Do You Protect Your Assets?

By savvyscot

Aside from the presidential election, the media has been full of coverage of Hurricane Sandy recently. While the hurricane has caused complete devastation and ruined many people’s lives, there are some great lessons that we can all learn. From a selfish point of view, it has forced me to look closely at different ‘high risk’… Read more

Filed Under: Guest Posts, Reflection Tagged With: Home Security, how to increase home security, how to protect assets, protect assets, reasons to protect assets, security tips, tips to improve home security

5 Things Hurricane Sandy Can Teach Us

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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

Filed Under: Change, Reflection, Self Development Tagged With: Dangerous Hurricane, Hurricane Sandy, Hurricane Sandy kills, Learn about Hurricane Sandy, Learn from Hurricane Sandy, What we can learn from Hurricane Sandy

The Sunday Review – Top Posts of the Week

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Subscribe to SavvyScot Updates – Enter your email address:   Sunday came around fast!! This weekend was actually pretty relaxed from my end. We did a lot of eating and a lot of chillin’. The temperature down in London has dropped to near freezing (1 degree Celsius all day) and Mrs Scot and I have… Read more

Filed Under: Reflection Tagged With: exciting blogs, Favorite Blogging Posts, Ouch giveaway, Top Blogs, Top Posts, Top Posts this week, travel blogs, win $100

Change Your Life – Step 4 Your Appearance

By savvyscot

Change Your Life - Step 4 Your Appearance. Take a look at yourself in the mirror. Do you like what you see? Chances are if you think not exactly or I look OK then others are going to think that too - Do you want to be an average joe? Or do you want to be that memorable person that everyone wants to know?

To recap, the last 3 weeks we have been making small steps for a big change. If you are new to the Change Your Life series then I recommend you read these articles first: Part 1 – Exercise Part 2 – Eating Healthily Part 3 – Get Knowledge Improve Your Appearance and Hygiene Take a… Read more

Filed Under: Adrenaline Junkie, Reflection, Self Development, Transitions Tagged With: Change appearance, Change Your Life, Get Smart, how to improve appearance, how to improve my appearance, improve hygiene, power of knowledge, should i change my appearance

12 Crazy Disney Facts You Never Knew

By savvyscot

12 Crazy Disney Facts

Big news in the UK is that there are plans to build a Massive Theme Park in 2018, only 17 minutes from central London! This would be a Paramount Pictures park, based on a British theme – one of the top 4 largest theme parks in the whole world – at a cost of around… Read more

Filed Under: Entertainment, Reflection Tagged With: crazy facts about disney, Disney, Disney facts, Disney stats, facts about theme parks, theme park statistics, theme parks, top 10 facts about disney, weird disney facts

The Lifestyle Carnival

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Have you subscribed to SavvyScot updates? Never miss a post again by filling in your email address in the box on the right. ——> I am delighted to announce that I am hosting my first BLOG CARNIVAL: Ok, maybe it’s not that kind of Carnival but it’s a great way to add new blogs to… Read more

Filed Under: Reflection Tagged With: blog carnvials, blogs on lifestyle, carnival, lifetstyle carnival

Starting a Blog in the UK – Pt. 2 Domain Names, Hosting and More

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Starting a Blog in the UK – Pt. 2 Domain Names, Hosting and More

Do you enjoy reading The Savvy Scot? Did you know that you can subscribe by entering your email address in the box at the bottom of the page? It takes half a minute and it will ensure that you never miss a post again!   So by now you have read ‘Starting a Blog in… Read more

Filed Under: Growing a Blog, Money Making, Personal Finance, Reflection Tagged With: Blog Hosting, Blogging Platform, Choosing Domain Name UK, Domain Names for Blogs, Hosting Blogs in the UK, Hosting for Blogs, Hosting Options for Blogs, how to make a UK blog, how to start a blog from the UK, How to start blogging, make money blogging, Make money blogging UK, Self-Hosted Blogs, Start a Blog, start a UK blog, UK Blogging, UK money blogs, Why to go self-hosted

The Sunday Review – Top Posts of the Week

By savvyscot

I want to start by saying thank you to all my readers for another fantastic week at SavvyScot. Visitors continue to steadily increase with this week’s average sitting at 137 per day. The most popular post of the week was ‘Four Ways of Making Things Frugal at Home’ This week saw the conclusion of the… Read more

Filed Under: Growing a Blog, Reflection Tagged With: Favorite Blogging Posts, Posts, relayrides giveaway, Top Posts, Top Posts this week

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