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February 2025 Update - Brace Yourself

Here we go!

I will get this out earlier next month, as I've forgotten what even happened in February. But after 18 months or so of ups and ups, here comes the first stagger that we've seen for a while. Trump is back and Trump will Trump. A lot of noise and chaos that crept in during February and has extended even further in what we've had in March so far. 

2025 Non Financial Goals Tracker

It's been a terrible start in terms of my non financial goals. January and February are always my least favourite months and I pretty much go into hibernation, but this is the current position on the immediate goals:

5 Lessons of Portuguese a Week - Currently on Lesson 18, so not quite the 5 lessons a week but the lessons have gotten longer than the initial ones. Still happy with the progress 

Get down to 12 Stone - Think I've gone further towards 13 Stone (Maybe even above) but I have had couple heavy weeks of eating and drinking due to multiple birthdays. Operation Brazil body will be a complete failure. 

Get 10 Goals for the Season - I have got 2 goals in the first 2 months taking me to 6 for the season, but with missing 5 of the last 8 games of the season I won't be hitting the 10 goal mark unless I find some scoring form out of nowhere.

February Liquid Assets

As mentioned the first decent dip in the stock markets for some time. my ISA value includes a £1,6000 contribution in the month so a loss of just over £2K in the month. The GIA investments have gone from being up 35% to a 3% loss overall. What a difference a month makes, whilst being a small amount on the whole.




Almost every man and his dog seemed to be saying to market was and still is severely overvalued, so no concerns about the reduction in the month. In March so far, the market has gone down even further, and by pay day hopefully some more, so I can gain some extra shares. With another 15 years of accumulation still to come, I will be listening to the wise words of Dory below (cute drawing by @handdrawnviola / @handdrawnviolist) 


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