Have you started thinking of Next Year?

TUNDE OYEDOYIN  

Tunde Oyedoyin is a London-based personal finance coach and founder of Money Intelligence Coaching Academy, a specialist academy of personal finance. He can be reached as follows: +447846089587 (WhatsApp only); E-mail: tu5oyed@gmail.com

With the buzz of the Christmas season nearly here, if you haven’t really figured out what and what to get and how much to splash out on what to wear, eat, drink and give, you’re not a loner. Yours truly hasn’t finished his. But please ensure to make whatever you come up with affordable and that you balance the book. Just thought to drop that off.

While at the ‘PizzaExpressLive’ in Holborn to watch “An Evening with Paul Play’ Dairo,” on the second Tuesday night of October, I met motivational speaker and author, Dr Dayo Olomu in the building. Soon after pleasantries and the ‘good to see you’ stuff, as we sipped our drinks, there was time to catch up with each other before the show started.

As an aside, it was an unforgettable evening that was worth its weight in gold.

In the course of the conversation with Olomu, he disclosed two things he had lined up for next year and that sort of precipitated the idea for this piece. Though next year was not part of what yours truly was thinking when he popped in for the show, having quickly filtered what he said with a personal finance prism, that chat was a reminder that it wasn’t too early in the day to start thinking about 2025.

Interestingly, over a fortnight later, while at Heathrow Terminal 4, waiting for the flight to Rwanda, Ladi Famojuro – a.k.a Famo – a fellow old boy of one’s alma mater also disclosed something he too had coming up next year as we chatted.

While Olomu’s event is for the second quarter of 2025, Famojuro’s is in the first quarter. But without knowing it, and I doubt if they even know each other, both guys not only got me thinking with my pocket, the conversations were good enough as building blocks to think and plan ahead for the soon to arrive 2025.

Now watch this. Just over two weeks ago, as Mrs O and I made our way home from Romford from the 30th wedding anniversary celebration of Pastor Bimbo and Princess Detoun Odunsi, she chipped in something about next year that has to do with personal finance. When she threw it in, that sealed the idea of this piece. Moreover, it also nailed the point that there are things that may stretch everyone’s pocket, come next year . So, if you haven’t, please start gradually factoring next year into your thinking.

Hope Mike Tyson can hang on to this

Let’s face it, not everyone’s going to get the kind of opportunity of a huge payday for a second chance like Iron Mike Tyson did last month.

Having banked millions despite a very, very below par performance at the office against a YouTuber, that’s actually immaterial. The most important thing the boxing legend can do for himself is to make sure he hangs on to this purse. Praying the Lord delivers him from the old ways and the evil of spending as if tomorrow doesn’t exist. 

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