About Us

My name is Peter, a 27 year old white collar worker who spent the last few years working as an accountant of an accounting firm.

The concepts of managing your personal finance and passive income was something which started to consume my life and I spent all day thinking about it and learning about it. It was something, which all my spare time such as going to the library at lunchtime, going straight to the library after work and working in a café before work.

I then started writing my thoughts in journals and before long I was flying through them.  I started to type these journals up in a word document to keep all the related content in the same document.  Then bloomed the idea of a blog style website for people of similar interests to understand and to provide meaningful feedback and discussions on the topics.

The 6 years in accounting taught me a few important lessons:

- Work Hard– throughout the year, you were always busy, there were always deadlines to be working towards and in the later years there was never any quiet periods. Each client you worked at wanted there work done as soon as possible and had high expectations of the work you were performing. You had to fit in your schedule around these expectations they set.  I loved working hard, it became the norm. It was expected of me and I expected it.

- Resilience– You have to have a mental and physical resilience in order to work the hours required. There really was restrictions on your social life, as you had to work late nights and occasionally weekends.  You cant let the work get on top of you and you cant mentally break down. You just have to keep going. The one factor that makes it all better is you work in a team environment so you really are in it together. Never give up.

- Adaptability– Each and every week for 6 years was working out of a different office. You were constantly exposed to new staff, new systems, new methods of business, different methods of communication. You had to quickly understand what you were playing with and adapt in order to get the job done.  In contrast you could see the staff at the client you were working at had no adaptability. They could not handle change at all.

- Management of expectations– Everyone has expectations surrounding everything. You need to be able to understand what people expect, and communicate to them what your expectations are. The term management of expectations could summarize the entire day of work. When people say what do you do for a job, I should have replied with expectation management.

- High Performing Teams – I saw over and over again how important great staff was to a well functioning team. In order to function well you need to understand what is important to your staff. If a colleague has a young family, flexibility is important – they want to be able to work from anywhere and to be able to fit their family into their schedule. If someone is a fitness freak and needs to go to the gym everyday, there colleagues should know this and help make the staff member accountable. All to many times, no one ever put in the effort to find out what was important to their colleague, and a result there were a lot of unhappy staff members. I could see this in the teams all the time.

I continued to read and write throughout 2019 and spent any free hours I had delving into my craft. There was one thing that I did not want to do throughout the entire process, and this was to rip innocent people off. There are so many people out there who are in things for the wrong intention. I do all of this because I enjoy it and it is interesting.