Reader’s Digest-featured expert, and Fortune 500 financial advisor Steve Maxwell now reveals the dynamics behind how to put your money to work in YOUR best interest.
Over the last twenty years Steve has counseled and taught thousands of people at various stages of life - from those struggling to pay this month’s rent, to those with multi-million dollar businesses - about their personal finances. This step-by-step workbook will take you through the practical and specific steps he's taught for decades to individuals one-on-one, and to hundreds at seminars. Steve has applied these principles himself to become a self-made millionaire by the time he was 40 years old, and they have worked for thousands just like you, all across the country.
Is this book right for you?
o There are some excellent books on financial fluency that teach you to have the right mindset, which is incredibly important. However, if you're only interested in learning about the mindset this isn't the right book for you. In this workbook, Steve shares with you the mindset, motivation, AND the specific tools you need to set you on a path to financial freedom.
o If you’re not paying attention to your money – someone else is! If you don't take time to learn to manage your money well, there are plenty of others happy to take advantage of you… salesmen, creditors, even so-called financial advisors. The sad thing is, if you don't invest in your financial education, you won't even know you're being taken advantage of until it's too late! Do you want to learn what's best for you in order to help yourself and others? If you hope to become financially independent, you better answer “YES” and make the decision to manage your finances! The world is not "fair", but there is a world of abundance and prosperity available to you if you're willing to learn how you can share in it.
o "Money is just a tool", BUT it's a tool that we ALL use and it greatly impacts our lives and the lives of those around us in many ways. Are you worried about debt? Are you a workaholic? Do you live paycheck to paycheck? Have you planned out your retirement and funded your kids’ college account? Do you look at the money issues in your life as a blessing or a curse? You'll learn the tools to positively impact your life long term once you apply the principles in Steve’s book.
o Teaching recently at a seminar, Steve spoke with another presenter who is a very successful CPA. He realized they had both come to recognize something surprising about their audience. “I'm amazed at how many business owners and those earning six-figure incomes don't have a good handle on their personal finances and aren't financially fluent" said the CPA. Steve knows EVERYONE needs to learn to speak the language of money!
o Where ARE you learning about how money really works? Just from the school of hard knocks? Do you just ignore your finances because you seem to “get by” without spending a lot of attention on your finances? Are those teaching you (whether deliberately or by example) where you want to be?
In this action-packed workbook you'll go through 4 specific steps to help transform your personal finances and save you thousands of dollars a year. Take a look at the table of contents.
PART ONE
Wi$e Up Strategy One: Why Bother Learning About Money?
CHAPTER 1 What Will it Cost You to Stay Where You Are? Do You Even Need to Care?
CHAPTER 2 You Have Permission to Make "Mistakes!"
CHAPTER 3 Where Do We Learn About Finances?
CHAPTER 4 What Is Your Mindset About Money and Personal Finances?
CHAPTER 5 Where do you Really Stand Financially?
PART TWO
Wi$e Up Strategy Two: Learning the Language of Money Starting With Financial Statements
CHAPTER 6 Why Bother Tracking Your Finances? How “Virtually Anyone” Can Really Earn $100 an Hour Working From Home
CHAPTER 7 20 Words & Phrases You Need to Know In Order to Become Wealthy
CHAPTER 8 What is a Financial Statement and How to Use it in
Everyday Life to Become Rich?
CHAPTER 9 Create Your Financial Statement in 7 Easy Steps
CHAPTER 10 How to Quickly Evaluate a Basic Financial Statement
PART THREE
Wi$e Up Strategy Three: Understanding How Money Really Works: 10 Secrets Everyone Should Know
CHAPTER 11: How Interest Works For and Against You.
CHAPTER 12 How Can you Really Get Out of Bad Debt?
CHAPTER 13 What You DON'T Know CAN Hurt You - Bad Credit & FICO Myths
CHAPTER 14 9 Things You Should Know About Your Credit Card That May Shock
You ... Okay, Some Will Just Tick You Off
CHAPTER 15 One Person Gives Freely, Yet Gains Even More
CHAPTER 16 What Insurance Do You Really Need?
CHAPTER 17 How Loans Work and Why You Should Care
CHAPTER 18 Are You Planning for Retirement?
CHAPTER 19 When Not to Bother with Estate Planning
CHAPTER 20 How a basic understanding of Taxes Can Save you $1,000's
PART FOUR
Wi$e Up Strategy Four: Putting It All Together
CHAPTER 21 Putting it All Together - Taking Action: What's Best for ME with Money
With "Wi$e Up - What's Best for ME with Money" YOU can learn to talk the language of money to change your financial future. You will learn 40 proven specific exercises to transform your personal finances.
A personal message from Steve …
My brother Rob recently asked me, ““Steve, why is understanding financial fluency and sharing it with others such a passion for you?” And I want to share the answer I gave him with you here, so you understand why I made the commitment to share this material with you here.
Really, there are a lot of reasons financial fluency is important, but the biggest is probably the incredible impact that being financially fluent has had on both my life and the lives of others. I compare the great results of those who take the time to learn about finances, to what I’ve seen happen to those who aren’t financially fluent, and I realize how important these skills truly are.
Personally, I believe money is just a tool … but it’s a tool we all use and it greatly impacts our lives and others in many ways. As I’ve talked to people about financial fluency I’ve come to realize that it’s a rare dialect that most don’t believe they CAN learn. Like any language, we’re not born able to speak it … we have to learn it.
I’ve often asked others, “Are you interested in earning at least an extra $200-300 per month working from home for a couple hours a month whenever you want to schedule it?” Of course, I usually hear, “Yes, tell me how!” I tell them, “Then really learn how to create, maintain, and use your financial statement, it really makes that kind of difference … plus learn about all the other insider secrets on how money really works.”
I know how personally financial problems can affect families – for better and for worse. That’s why it was so important for me to take the time to write this book. Usually I don’t work with people one-on-one anymore, without charging a hefty fee of $5,000 or more. That may seem like a lot, but that’s what it takes to drag me away from family time these days (you can make those decisions, too, once you’re financially independent!) However, I have spent 100’s of hours distilling my knowledge in this workbook, and I want to make sure you use it to best advantage, so I’ve made this self-guided home study program, proven principals to help thousands, available for only 1% of what I would charge if we took the time to do the exercises together.
I’ll never forget Ed’s smiling face when he thanked me and shared with me that he was now rid of bad debt, reviewing his finances regularly, and making great progress toward his other financial goals. And just yesterday I received an encouraging email from Ray, one my students in the Wealth Advisory Program that Grassland Investments taught this year, telling me about an out-of-state 286-unit apartment complex he had just purchased. He said, “We did close on the apartment complex. I also wanted to thank you for all your support and the team at Grasslands.......and I wanted you to know I could not have pulled this off without you and your team.”
It all starts with becoming financially fluent!
Steve
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P.S. I’m so confident you’ll find value in this book based on thousands of others, that if you read this book and complete all of the exercises I’ll guarantee you’ll make at least 10x what this book cost in the first year, likely much more.
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