Starting The Journey

• Who am I

First things first, who am I? Paul Green currently living in Dublin Ireland originally from the UK. I moved to Ireland with my partner who grew up in this area 5 years ago. We have 2 beautiful daughters and they are my reason why. Currently, I am part of the accounts team for 1 of the largest hospitality group in Ireland.

• Why am I doing it 

So, why have I started doing this blog? After a conversation with a close friend early this year, I realised I wasn't getting any younger. I needed to start looking towards retirement. At first, I thought I'm not even 30, why would I need to look towards retiring? that seems a million miles away. A few YouTube videos later and it opened my eyes completely. I needed to start investing and I had no choice but to start right there and then. This blog is all about documenting my journey and trying to learn something new every day. I plan to use this as a platform to connect with other people on the same journey and pick their brain a little. If this, in turn, inspires others to get financially free that will be amazing. 

• What am I blogging about

If you haven't guessed it already this is going to be about investing and all the different forms of it, Creating a portfolio that will grow for retirement. For everyone in my shoes that is new to investing I hope this will be a chance for you to join me on the journey, And for everyone who has the experience of being a lot further along on their own journey, I hope to be a sponge and take any every bit of advice I can get and grow my knowledge every day. I'm a firm believer in hard work and education and trying to learn as much as possible. 

• Blog goals 

So what are my goals? Ultimately to gain financial freedom and to set my family up for retirement, Having the freedom to spend more time with my children and get out of the rat race. To put a timeline of a specific goal that would have to be in 12months I want to have added to my portfolio the funds to be able to purchase a rental property. Goals are so important something i have not doing nearly enough. This is something i will be going into more detail about in a later post.