Jesse Meijers

Why your retirement plan is fundamentally flawed

The generation of my grandparents have it made basically. They worked hard for 40 years and then they received a nice pension from their retirement plan that they had saved for over the course of those 40 years. How can this plan be flawed at all? Don't all people simply save money to put into their retirement plan and justly receive this money when they retire?

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Success Formula – Happiness, Health and Cashflow

In a previous post I was writing about the difference between being rich and being wealthy. As I intended in that post, I will post an update of my own wealth every month. I won't disclose any details about the values most of the time, but I will tell you what decisions I made and how I think they are going to work out for me. In the end I hope this series will be a valuable resource for beginning entrepreneurs, who want to learn more about which decisions make the most sense.

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Must-have ingredients for a good partnership

Yesterday I had a meeting with my business partner who just came back from his holiday. And I was about to tell him something that I knew he was not going to like. But he's my partner so it also felt as though I had an obligation to tell him what was on my mind. In the past we've talked about tough personal circumstances and how that influences your work. Sometimes they make you work harder, at other times it has a negative impact on your work and commitment. But we talked about these things nonetheless, and it would seem as though this was just another case. Yet it wasn't.

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Learn to be wealthy and successful, not rich

As I explained in my previous post, I have a definition of wealth that may not be the same as yours. Many people think of wealth as an equivalent to being rich. In a certain extent they are right, because riches are a part of wealth. However, people who merely define being wealthy as being rich, miss the big picture. The true definition of wealth is much more subtle.

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The road less traveled

Today I read a fantastic poem by Robert Frost. This poem got me thinking. I have always felt that I am traveling the road less traveled, having been an entrepreneur since the age of 19, practicing a pretty unknown sport and generally having a different look on life than most other people around me.

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