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15 Days Book Reading Challenge - 9 Steps To Financial Freedom

  15 Days Book Reading Challenge - 9 Steps To Financial Freedom   WHAT DO YOU WANT FROM YOUR MONEY?   WHAT DO YOU want from your money? College tuition for your kids? A bigger house and a new car? Security when you retire? Wouldn’t it be great simply to have enough money so you don’t have to worry? The “enough money” part of that equation is easy. By the time you finish this book you will understand everything you need to know about managing and protecting your money and making it grow. The “so you don’t have to worry” part is much more complex. It actually has nothing to do with how much money you have or how little. You can balance your checkbook until you’re blue in the face, you can move money every day between your mutual funds and exchange-traded funds, you can double your life insurance, you can buy lottery tickets—and none of it will do you any good until you get beyond the worry and fear.   The fear of money, the fear of not having enough, the fear of having

9 Steps To Financial Freedom - Preface

 9 Steps To Financial Freedom - Preface Look back over the past fifteen years and the one constant is change. Our personal lives, as well as the world we step out into each day, may bear very little resemblance to where we were, who we were, and what we thought back then. Change isn’t just inevitable, the degree of evolution can at times be breathtaking. And yet if there is one profound lesson I have learned over these past years, it is that deep down what you want from your life, and what you may be struggling to make of your life, has not changed at all. I didn’t have a cable television show fifteen years ago, nor were you and I able to converse through Twitter. But the same questions I field today on my show, or when you send me a tweet or e-mail that I field on my iPhone and iPad—talk about two very big changes!—are exactly the same questions my clients and I were working through together fifteen years ago when I was a certified financial planner and wrote this book. To be sure