Financial success is about maintaining a few good habits regularly and

consistently over time. Today I'm going to talk about one of those.

Welcome to another five-minute Friday. Friday. One of the things that I see all too often is people setting up a pension or a

ICER or some kind of savings plan and setting it up for, I don't know, 50 quid a month,

100 pounds a month, and they're never ever changing that.

They just leave it at the savings rate that they chose initially and forget about it.

Those same people are the ones who are surprised when they get to two or three years

before retirement and they realize they're not going to have enough money to retire on.

It's a simple fact, you can't just set something up

forget it entirely and just assume it's going to be fine for the rest of your life. No you have to

keep an eye on it and in this case we're going to talk about increasing the value of your savings over time.

So let's put five minutes on the clock.

I'm not going to need anything like five minutes this week.

He says, perhaps unwisely.

So let's crack on.

The thing about setting something up once, forgetting about it and not even thinking about it for another 10 years or 20 years, is that that's a passive non-intentional way of dealing with your money and you know if you're a regular

viewer and listener to meaningful money intentional is the key word when it comes

to seizing control of your finances and making sure that you're going to be

okay one day. So you guys are not in the business of being passive or

unintentional about your money and just kind of letting it waft along and

maybe it'll be okay okay maybe it won't. No you and me

were about seizing control of our money grabbing it by the scruff of the neck and

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