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How to Start Investing
Baby steps to investing for those who don't know how and where to start. Investing is such a complex and wide topic, with everything...
Atiqah Nadiah Zailani
8 min read


Cover Your A** (With Insurance)
For those rainy, thunderstorm-y, hurricane-y days that lie ahead. Insurance is one of those things that nobody really wants to think...
Atiqah Nadiah Zailani
10 min read


Dealing with Debt
The best way to deal with debt is to have none of it. In a world where loan opportunities and credit cards are offered every time you...
Atiqah Nadiah Zailani
7 min read


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...
Atiqah Nadiah Zailani
6 min read


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...
Atiqah Nadiah Zailani
6 min read


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
7 min read


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
2 min read


Put Your Money To Work
'Money is a good servant, but a terrible master'. Pick the right side. There are essentially three ways to go about becoming wealthy: 1) ...
Atiqah Nadiah Zailani
8 min read


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
6 min read


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
8 min read


The Price of Your Life
Your Life-Energy is worth something. Figure out your price. In college, I worked several part time jobs. About a quarter of my waking...
Atiqah Nadiah Zailani
7 min read


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
5 min read


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
7 min read
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