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Take Control of your Finances!

5/7/2020

 
Where did you learn to manage your money? School? Books? Family?  Did you ever learn?

I don't remember learning anything particularly useful about finance at school.  I did economics at college but that didn't teach me anything I could particularly apply to my personal finances.
Alan Donegan burning £50. Personal finance. FIRE
How good are you at managing your finances? Does it feel like you just burn through money faster than it comes in?
I use supply and demand theory in my business to this day ​but no one taught me about personal finance. I learnt through books, courses that I paid to go on and through trial and error; the good old fashioned way.  I have paid a high price for the skills I have developed and I think it is time I gave it all away for free...…...

I have been doing that with entrepreneurship for the last decade now. Giving away the course I wish I had when I was launching my business.  Katie and I have decided to do this for personal finance next. 

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Quarantined? What can you build?

19/3/2020

 
Are you stuck in the house?  Have you been quarantined? Wondering what to do with al the new time on your hands? Netflix calling to you?

​Katie and I are in New Orleans, Louisiana.  Normally a hot bed of music, food and partying.  Not at the moment though!
Alan Donegan writing a blog post on the deck in New Orleans during lock down
Alan this morning creating this blog post to share with you. Focusing on creation!
We came here for Katie to learn Jazz piano, to go to the bars and listen to jazz and soak up the food and culture.  3 or 4 days after we arrived here, the state shut down all restaurants, bars, clubs, events, gyms etc. and the city went on lock-down. 

We now have many hours on our hands and I am wondering what to do with them!  What am I going to build?  What am I going to learn?  What am I going to create?

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What to do in changing times....

16/3/2020

 
The world seems to be changing faster than ever before and with these changing times comes uncertainty.  This post is inspired by the fact that PopUp Business School (an events business) has had 10 events cancelled this week because of the Coronavirus.  
With change happening so quickly and so out of the blue it is difficult to prepare.  What is important is how you react. 
Alan Donegan with empty shelves at Walmart because of panic buying over the corona virus
16/03/2020 Bare shelves at Walmart from Panic buying related to the Coronavirus. Things are changing so quickly......
I don't see the rate of change slowing down, I can't foresee the next black swan event and I have given up trying to predict what is going to happen next.  What I am working on is how I react and I want to share some thoughts that I think will give you comfort and inspiration in these dark and changing times...…...

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The extraordinary belongs to those who create it

20/1/2020

 
The extraordinary belongs to those who create it.  This is written over and over again throughout my notebooks as a reminder that if you want to have an extraordinary life then you have to create it, build it and make it happen.  No one else is going to create it for you.  You have to create it.
Alan Donegan Legoland California
Katie, Alan and their friend Jason at Legoland California. It is amazing what you can build!
The last decade has just finished and the question I have started to think about is:  "What are you going to build over the next 10 years?"

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Annual Review Questions

19/12/2019

 
It is the last few days of the decade!  Can you believe it? At this time of year I get to do one of the most exciting things I do each year!  I get to do my annual review and start to think about what I want the next year to be like!  

Are you thinking about 2020 yet? What you want life to be like in the next decade?
Alan Donegan reviewing his goals from 2019 and thinking about 2020
Alan reviewing his 2019 goals
10 or 12 years ago I started to do annual goal setting and reflection and have slowly developed my list of questions and process over the last decade.  I have run it with everyone on the PopUp team and shared with friends to great impact but not published it yet!  This is what I want to give to you for this year!

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Following your dreams

9/2/2019

 
What are your dreams?  Have they changed over the years?  What have you always dreamed of doing?

Since an early age I have been inspired by the amazing TV shows of the 80s, the movies of the 90s and the last golden decade of the superhero movie. 
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Alan on Batman's bike on a green screen in LA in 2016
I have loved watching these movies and it has left me with a dream of being involved, writing or creating something.  If you've got a dream shouldn't you pursue it?  Why don't more people follow their dreams?

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