Sleep-Well-at-Night Finances: My Aggressively Simple Financial Strategies

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“Sleep-Well-at-Night Finance series” essay list

• If You Want "Sleep-Well-at-Night" Finances, Stop Listening to The Noise™

• Focus on These 3 Financial Areas and You're Golden

• A Simple and Straightforward Take on the FIRE Movement

• Buying Time = Buying Happiness

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When it comes to finance, I want transparency.

And yet we - and I include America as much as Britain in this - are so crap at being financially transparent. Money is still a taboo to talk about, whispered in hushed tones, if it’s talked about at all. Just this week my friend told me she found out a guy at her company at the same level as her earns £30k more - because her company is not transparent.

So I try to do my best to be transparent in my finance writing. I put my money where my mouth is, as it were.

As such, this week I want to share with y’all my financial setup. How does it look on a daily basis? What principles do I abide by?

Make no bones about it - it’s simple. Some might say aggressively so.

But it works (for me at least).