Atiqah Nadiah Zailani
Create Your Own Personal Finance System
Not all of us are accountants, but all of us, whether we like it or not, need to manage our money - here's how. Previously, we discussed...
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Atiqah Nadiah Zailani
- 6 min
The Game of Trash: Which Mastery Level Are You At?
Like any game worth playing, there are levels for you to advance through to become the ultimate Trash-Master. If you are following this...
Atiqah Nadiah Zailani
- 6 min
How to spend your paycheque
Putting that moolah on your pay slip to the best use. Source My first ever official paycheque was for USD 400 – a result of spending 12...
Atiqah Nadiah Zailani
- 5 min
The Personal Waste Audit
Know thy enemy. In this particular case, the enemy is the mound sitting inside your trash can. Discovering others who had successfully...
Atiqah Nadiah Zailani
- 7 min
The Emergency Fund and the Stupid Fund
A piggy-bank to save your day, or week, or month, or year. Before we get to anything else in this series, let’s first figure out your...
Atiqah Nadiah Zailani
- 2 min
More Things I Wish You Knew About Money
A continuation of the first personal finance series, but this time more focused on actions. Last year, I wrote a starter series on...
Atiqah Nadiah Zailani
- 5 min
House Building Diary: Week Two
Continuation of the house-building adventures. The first week of building was exhausting, and I was starting to think that I had gotten...
Atiqah Nadiah Zailani
- 7 min
Eye-Opening Blogposts You Should Read
Blogposts that I re-read over and over again because the content is just THAT GOOD. I was a bit late to the blog scene, stubbornly...
Atiqah Nadiah Zailani
- 5 min
Building a Sustainable Home
Efforts to build a home that meets all of one's requirements and yet produces minimum negative effects to the world around it. Being a...
Atiqah Nadiah Zailani
- 5 min
Designing A Home For Yourself
When you're not an architect or a construction worker but you still insist on designing and building your own home. There’s nothing quite...
Atiqah Nadiah Zailani
- 6 min
Maximising Your Money & Fulfilment
Having everything you need, and enjoying everything you have. That is where you want to be. Like everybody else, I grew up with the...
Atiqah Nadiah Zailani
- 5 min
Get Inspired to Build Your Own House
When others do such a great job that you want to do it too. I am certainly not the first to attempt building a house, or the first to try...
Atiqah Nadiah Zailani
- 8 min
What Doesn't Get Measured Won't Get Fixed
Know where your money goes by tracking it. I was a scientist during my college days - I studied Biological Sciences and spent a few years...
Atiqah Nadiah Zailani
- 6 min
Ramadan Resolutions
Familiar with New Year's Resolutions? Try Ramadan Resolutions. Most of us are familiar with (and are often well-meaning practitioners of)...
Atiqah Nadiah Zailani
- 5 min
Income Is What You Earn, Wealth is What You Keep
Why the amount you save matters more than the amount you earn. At one of the many jobs I’ve held, I had a head of department who liked to...
Atiqah Nadiah Zailani
- 7 min
A Tiny Home for a Tiny Person
Building a home by yourself offers a gazillion possibilities - a terrace house? A mansion? A freaking palace?? Or the exact opposite: a...
Atiqah Nadiah Zailani
- 7 min
Things About Money That I Wish You Knew
Things I believe you need to know if you want to get your financial act together. Ever since people found out about my mini-retirement,...
Atiqah Nadiah Zailani
- 11 min
Books That Changed My Life
Incredible, mind-altering books that shifted my view of the world and changed how I lived my life. I read a lot, and easily go through...
Atiqah Nadiah Zailani
- 10 min
The Mini-Retirement Experiment
Retiring isn't always all it's cracked up to be. It's still pretty awesome though. Pros & Cons of the mini-retirement experiment. Some...
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