Hello peeps,

This blog post isn’t strictly student related but it does relate to you as a person and an individual. If you read my last blog post you’ll read my little ditty about how important it is to create a vision of your life and then live it.

Well, I found a guy who has truly done that.

His name is Jeremy Gilley and he is the founder of the first ever Peace Day which consists of the an annual day of cease fire and no-violence. During this day aid agencies going into war zones and offer relief in the form of medicine and food for the ill and hungry.

Jeremy saw his vision of this peace day and summoned everything in his power to make it happen. Using his filmmaker skills and passionate personality he managed to involve the likes of Jude Law and Angelina Jolie in his campaign.

The 21st of September also signifies a day for those not in a war zone to have a day of non-violence. No more shouting at friends, no more stabbing, no more violence within the home. It is a day of true peace, to value what it is to be human.

If you want to know more about peace day then click here.

The Olympics is underway and what an opening ceremony it was. The Chinese have truly embraced what the Olympics means to the world and they also portrayed their 5000 years of history in a very moving way.

For me, the Olympics encompass what it means to be at the pinnacle of what it is to be human - obviously on a mostly physical level but sometimes we forget the momentous mental journey these top athletes go on.

To make to the top in anything whether it be sport, business or anything else you might choose to do - you HAVE to see your goal in your mind before you can achieve it. If you can see yourself already in possession of the things you want to achieve, the people you want to surround yourself around and the life you want to leave your subconscious will go out and attract these things to you.

For example, I personally want this site to be the most helpful, useful and most used UK student website on the Internet. It’s not quite there yet, but it’s moving in that direction - with over 1000 students signed up on the email within 3 months, it’s not too bad going - we have a long way to go though. We have a lot more to give to students and we’ll do everything we can for you guys.

But, the point of this blog isn’t about me - it’s about YOU. Today and the next few days - take time to think what you really want in life, what do you REALLY WANT TO ACHIEVE? Who do you want to live your life with?

These questions we rarely get time to think about in our busy lives but start to think about it next time you see an athlete win a gold medal at the Olympics - think about what kind of approach they have to life. See if it changes yours. It may not, but give it a go.

I’ll be back soon.

One love.

Steve.

PS. Who likes that new Kings of Leon song? ‘Sex on Fire’ - “Amazing”.

Hey everyone,

Busy, busy, busy that’s all I can say. Good news today when I popped down to the post office to collect my mystery package - it was paperback copies of the book ‘Defeat Student Debt - The Wealthystudent.co.uk guide to making the most out of university life’ and (I may be biased!) but it looks great.

This coming week we’ll have a new email format coming up and we’ll also be letting people know the winners of the writing competition. Some of you guys have your writing in the book and we’ll be letting everyone know who those people are very soon.

Things are gearing up for a big launch in September once we get this awful summer weather out of the way - I hope you guys have gone on holiday somewhere nice this year. I recommend Greece for 7 nights of sun, sea, sand and sandwiches.

With this gearing up we are looking for a fabulous team of writers and we’re asking you to join this Facebook group if you’re interested. See you there!

I saw the James Caan from the BBC’s dragons den a couple of nights ago on Newsnight discussing or not whether there was going to be a recession and what should be done to stop it.

All things are pointing to a recession at the moment…

• Sinking house prices
• High energy costs
• High food costs
• High oil costs
• Banks won’t lend money for mortgages
• The employment market is slowing

and more things besides. I agreed with what James was saying in that the government must help us out here. If the government don’t want a recession then they must ‘ease the pinch’ on the average British person right now. It’s time to start cutting tax on energy and petrol and place these taxes elsewhere.

I personally have the viewpoint that there is so much wastage by the government that many millions of taxpayers money is virtually ‘lost’ due to poor allocation of the money or the money is not used to its full extent.

Recession won’t hit students so bad because the students will get the same amount of money regardless. The only thing to hit students bad (as I have said before) is these top up fees, high energy costs and rising food costs.

This is partly why this site is here. To help you guys out a bit more!

Take care for now

Just a quick one today.

Big news on the book that’s coming out - it’s just been sent to the publishers! It is going to be available on Amazon.co.uk for £7.99 but of course will be available free in e-book form by signing up on the email. You can see the front cover design on the front page of the site.

Sample drafts have already been sent out and the reviews have been extremely good! We’ll be sending out a near perfect copy on the email within the next couple of weeks so look out for that!

Hopefully you’ve already booked your holiday away from the UK as the weather doesn’t seem all that great, I want to be away again!

Take care for now,

Burf x x

Hey guys n girls! Summer is finally upon us and the sun is shining outside and I am sweating my ass off trying to bring you as many discounts and vouchers as I can before the new academic year starts. I am just putting the finishing touches to the book before it goes off to the publishers at the end of the week. It should be out on Amazon.co.uk by mid August (if all goes well). 

The book will be available free on this site in an e-book version via on the email sign up. Perhaps if you’re a new student then you could ask mum or dad nicely to get you a paperback copy! 

Remember to keep money close to your chest over summer, it’s a good time to keep some sort of budget going before September comes around. Rising oil prices means don’t put your foot down when driving around and make sure to watch your budget for food - prices are going up!I am off on a long awaited to Kos on Saturday so keep chatting on the forums and give us any feedback on admin@wealthystudent.co.uk - we’d love to hear from you!  

Talk soon, 

Burf.  

PS. I pulled out Holland in the sweepstake - result! I love the Dutch. Did you know the women chat up the men there and their favourite line is - “Would you like to share a biscuit with me in the morning?” It means that they want breakfast with this person and therefore would like to sleep with that person. Genius!  

It’s been a while and we have busy behind the scenes at wealthystudent!

With a long discussion and seeing how everything is working we are deciding to scale down everything onto one main site (wealthystudent.co.uk) - we do currently have four sites - the banking, savings and phones site.

The main reason for this is it should be much easier to use and everything will be in one place. There is also going to be change in the way the website is set up. The menu bar is going to be going someplace different and it should look pretty sweet!

We have also made a MAJOR decision to give the book we are writing away for FREE on the website. That’s a free e-book version for everyone. This book is going to change the way students think about money and their University experience. We believe everyone should read it for free.

We are hoping that people take the book seriously and don’t treat it like a free piece of junk. I think we’ll have to play some mysterious trick to make everyone think they paid good money for it but they really got it for free.

The book will be out by the end of August and available on Amazon.

That reminds me…keep entering the competition so that you can get your advice in this book! Not enough entries so far!

Click here to enter the competition

The economy is looking like it’s going to collapse. The government are panicking by putting £50million of our own money into the banking system in an attempt to get a few more people on the housing market and stop the inevitable collapse of house prices.

The prices will crash and this is good for current students as in 4 or 5 years time housing SHOULD be more affordable. A well known economist predicted there would be a housing price crash starting in 2008. He says there is an 18 year cycle. 14 years of stable or growing prices followed by around 4 years of falling prices.

So how will the recession affect students?

Money will be tighter with costs of everyday goods going up, but if you can pick up a part-time job and save a bit of cash whilst you’re at University you’ll be in a great position when you finish.

You’ll need to start being a bit tighter with your cash and not piss it all away drinking to 4am every morning. Be a wealthy student, not a skint student!

I’ll be blogging more soon on this subject, but busy writing this book at the moment!

I have a nice title for the book that has come in the competition ‘The Wealthy Student Handbook’ - providing a wealth of knowledge for the student community.

It’s going to be tough to be it - but you can try here.

With this blog I am going to get into some meatier subject matter to get my real views on things out there.

This week: Where does all the money really go?

I am talking about taxes and what the general public pays. Of course we pay taxes to maintain the services - police, army, hospitals and those things, but is every single pound and penny going to good places?

I personally don’t think it is.

There is so much waste of money in our society and our government has to take the blame here. I know if every penny was spent properly students wouldn’t have top up fees and being slammed with 4.8% interest.

We need to fight the student corner but we also need to fight our own corner as a British citizens. Where is every single pound of our money going? All we seem to have found out lately is that MP’s can now claim thousands on a new kitchen for their second home.

In Scotland students don’t have the same fees as us. Why not here?

We need answers and in our quest to help students, we’ll also be trying to get these answers.

Are you with us?

8 entries so far which is good but not quite good enough!

That means you have forced me to bump it up to £100. No more until we get loads more entries!

That’s got to be four nights out the town at least!

There is also a second prize of a ipod shuffle.

Again, we need to have at least 50 entries by the end of April or we’ll have to roll over till May.

So you get your competition entries in.

This is just a short blog post but in the next post which will be in a couple of days about a so called ‘expert’ who wanted me to pull wealthystudent.co.uk down. Hmm…who could it be? Who would do such a petty thing?

Over a years work has gone into this site and it’s here to raise awareness and fight student debt. No one will take it down.

You’ll find out who it was pretty soon.

For now take it easy guys. Look after yourselves this weekend! My arm is finally out of my cast but I can’t move the damn thing. One day I’ll be a normal human being again!

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