Category: Wellsfaber

“The greatest damage done by neglect, trauma or emotional loss is not the immediate pain they inflict but the long-term distortions they induce in the way a developing child will continue to interpret the world and her situation in it.” – Gabor Maté All of us believe the stories that we tell ourselves; some of the stories are true, but many are not. When we feel frustrated with life and limited by our beliefs or situations, […]

“If someone throws a fit because you set a boundary, it’s just more evidence the boundary is needed.” – Unknown. If you’re feeling exhausted and overcome by the obligations and expectations of everyday life, you’re not alone. And it’s not because we can’t cope with the same things our parents did; our culture has become infinitely more demanding. Having a real-world life and a concurrent digital life has also taken the agitations, frustrations and exasperations of […]

“Give me six hours to chop down a tree, and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.” ― Abraham Lincoln We’ve written so many blogs about mindfulness and being grounded in the present; understanding that the future doesn’t actually exist yet means that we mustn’t get lost in fear, anxiety and worry about it. But, we still need to plan for it. This is why it’s so hard. We seem to have competing messages, […]

“What a our mind can create, our character should control.” Thomas Edison Money is a tricky tool; too little and we fear how we will get by; too much, and we fear wasting it. Whilst much of traditional financial planning and advice has focussed on the numbers, formulas and historical market commentary, we have always believed that to live in our wealthspace means that we need to connect all the dots, not just the few that […]

“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking that we used to create them.” Albert Einstein Innovation doesn’t need to be hard work. Our modern age has equated innovation with research and development, industrialised and commercialised it and made it feel like hard work. It’s also created a culture of perfectionism, where we’ve become afraid to innovate because we might fail. But, as Brené Brown writes: there is no innovation and creativity without failure. Period. […]

We have found that it’s often easier to look at others and see their blindspots, hangups and issues than to look at our own. It’s scarily easy for us to pass comments and fall into a negative cycle of thinking, “should they be with that person?” or “should they be spending money on that right now?” Luckily, we don’t only do it in a negative way! We also look to people who inspire us and comment […]

Another newsletter? That’s the last thing we need… or is it? If you have a small business or are looking at creating additional income streams, bulk email distribution could be one of the most effective tools in your digital strategy. Whilst many of us may feel like we already receive too many emails, the trick is not to send more emails; it’s to make them more valuable. In our own business, we use regular email campaigns […]

One of the most significant challenges in changing our money habits and financial behaviours is communicating it with our family and those in our care. Relationships and communication are already so nuanced and complex that when we include financial matters, things can escalate with intensity without us even trying! As a result, we can find ourselves wishing we’d approached the conversation differently because we had hoped for a different outcome. Winning the person, not just the […]

“Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow.” – Aaron Burr Whilst Aaron Burr may have been trying to offer words of wisdom, many of us love this phrase because it seems to give us an excuse to procrastinate. Why do something now (that you probably should do now…) if you can put it off until tomorrow? Mark Twain seized this opportunity to say, “Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day […]