Exploring Self-Build to Rent

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Who is self-build to rent best suited for? In this weeks newsletter we take a quick look at the housing data to see how this method could suit one particular type of self-builder.

How to find your Good Days

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Hi everyone πŸ‘‹, πŸ”₯ What I have been doing this week 😷 We’ve been combatting a sickness bug this week which has meant that there has been very little spare time or energy to spend on building knowledge for self-build or creating new Grand Reviews. I did have a couple of days off work to […]

Timeboxing Your Calendar For Achieving Goals

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Hi everyone πŸ‘‹, πŸ”₯ What I have been doing this week 🏠 I managed to get a bit of time over the weekend to complete the second Grand Review. The structure adapts subtly each time I make one, which is inevitable in these early stages while I find the framework of what works best. I […]

How The Value of The Pound Affects Self-Build

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Hi everyone πŸ‘‹, πŸ”₯ What I have been doing this week 🚁 There have been several deadlines to meet with Design work that has drained me quite a bit this week. I have managed to achieve the objectives, but it seems to have made me procrastinate in the evening by about 2000 when I eventually […]

Calming the Chimp

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Hi everyone πŸ‘‹, πŸ”₯ What I have been doing this week πŸ€’ It has been a bit of a slow week in terms of output this week due to my daughter having a fever all weekend. She’s better now thankfully. 🚲 I went out on my road bike for the first time in two-years. We […]

Mapping 18 Grand Designs

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Hi everyone πŸ‘‹, πŸ”₯ What I have been doing this week πŸ•Έ More refining on the website this week whenever I get the chance to work on it amongst the other chores of life. I have now added these newsletters to the site. The Grand Reviews Philosophy is now ready and it outlines the how […]

Reframe Your Long-Term Goals

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Hi everyone πŸ‘‹, πŸ”₯ What I have been doing this week πŸ•Έ I have been playing around with Custom Fields to improve the layout of the Grand Reviews Template page. It gives each page a bit more structure than the typical WordPress defaults so that I can add more taxonomies that are specific, such as […]

The Practice Playground

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Hi everyone πŸ‘‹, πŸ”₯ What I have been doing this week πŸ‘·β€β™‚οΈ I have been doing quite a lot of thinking and building in the background to determine the framework for this newsletter and the website. I’m about a month in since having the idea of sharing my processes and journey and it has really […]

Where to begin?

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Hi everyone πŸ‘‹, πŸ”₯ What I have been doing this week πŸ•Έ My main task this week has been further work on my new website where the main articles will be written and posted. These things take time and mental energy which is difficult when you are sleep deprived and in a full time job. πŸ“Ί I […]

Celebrations and Setup!

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Hi everyone πŸ‘‹, πŸ”₯ What I have been doing this week πŸ•Έ My main task this week has been buying the domain and setting up hosting for my new website where the main articles will be written and posted. It is surprising how much time this can take up and sometimes feels a bit like β€œfake productivity”. […]