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Overview
Learn the strategies, tools, and confidence to make your financial dreams a reality!The 9 Steps to Financial Freedom Guidebook will:
- Dispel the myths of money
- Uncover what is blocking you from having it all
- Reveal personal insights into your destructive money behaviors
- Eliminate fear from ruling your finances
- Cultivate positive attitudes so you can take positive actions with your money
- Free you from debt forever
- Teach you the nuts and bolts of sound financial management
- Make your money work for you
- Educate you to become your own financial advisor
- Give you the power to attract riches into your life
- Teach you to look forward to handling and investing your money
- Help you create what you deserve-a life of abundance and true wealth
Synopsis
A One-on-One Financial Planning Session with Suze Orman
With her New York Times bestseller The 9 Steps to Financial Freedom, America’s leading financial expert Suze Orman transformed the concept of money forever by teaching us to recognize the emotional aspects of our relationship with it. Now, this fully revised edition of Suze Orman’s Financial Guidebook translates Suze’s own brand of motivation and inspiration into a user-friendly, hands-on workbook that will empower you to work through the nuts and bolts of personal finance, with Suze as your trusted adviser.
Updated to keep you abreast of our quickly shifting economy, you’ll find:
• Insightful exercises, quizzes, and worksheets to help you understand how your parents’ relationship with money affects yours, and what money means to you
• Up-to-the-minute information on tax codes, IRA rules and regulations, and long-term-care insurance
• Useful strategies for coping with the ever-changing landscape of educational costs, social security, and the stock market
• An outline of key questions that every financial adviser should ask you upon your initial meeting
• An in-depth analysis of all your monthly expenses, providing a realistic picture of just how much money you have to work with and how you may not be respecting your money as much as you should
Regardless of your age and income, it is never too early or too late to take control of your money. Suze Orman’s Financial Guidebook is the perfect companion to The 9 Steps to Financial Freedom, the personal finance classic that changed the way millions of Americans viewed money. Full of self-tests, thought-provoking questions, and Suze’s easy-to-understand personal finance advice, here is your empowering approach to achieving financial freedom forever, with the best guide possible.
Editorials
From Barnes & Noble
The Barnes & Noble ReviewIf you were to tap a stranger on the shoulder and ask him or her to define their money attitude, chances are they might perceive you as being a little odd. After all, our hypothetical stranger might wonder, doesn't everyone know that having more money is pretty much always a good thing? Why do you even need to inquire about my attitude? However, if the stranger had read Suze Orman's pioneering work The 9 Steps to Financial Freedom, you'd probably get an entirely different response.
Orman changed the way that many people conceive of their relationship to money by arguing that each individual carries within them powerful memories and family traditions that shape, control, and even warp their ability to deal effectively with financial matters. Perhaps, as in Orman's case, you inherited the message that you'd never have enough money, and so now you feel like a fraud whenever you achieve success; perhaps your parents often told you how irresponsible you were, leading you to think that you'd never really be able to deal with complex issues like investment or estate planning. Whatever the original problem, many readers found that The 9 Steps helped them move their lives forward by providing an enhanced awareness of their own sometimes self-defeating and hidden struggle with the legacies of the past. At the same time, some of Orman's readers asked her for practical advice to supplement her psychological insights. And so she created this book, which is filled with quizzes, worksheets, and exercises that will help people make the best possible choices as they consider their long-term financial objectives.
Suze Orman's Financial Guidebook is divided up into nine chapters, each one corresponding to one of Orman's celebrated nine steps. For example, Chapter 2 helps you face your fears and create new truths in your life. The chapter begins with a quiz that helps identify your present-day money fears and then continues with exercises that allow you to explore the connections between those fears and your formative childhood experiences. Orman shares her own story, which I found very inspiring, before teaching you how to develop new narratives about your life. Later chapters delve into the practical details of life insurance, credit card debt, and planning for a child's education. The publishers bill this book as the next-best thing to having Suze Orman as your personal adviser, and I think they're right: If you found Orman's earlier works helpful, this information-filled guidebook will prove to be another invaluable and accessible source of sound financial advice. (Sunil Sharma)