Budgeting Personal Finance

Being rich is not normal: most people never achieve wealth in their lifetime. The very word "rich" describes a state beyond the median. To become rich, you will have to think radically differently from the way most people around you think. Do you know what those specific differences may be? Business and wealth guru Douglas Kruger strips away the feel-good hype and gets right down to the practical principles. He leads you through the types of thinking that hold individuals, families, and businesses in generational cycles of poverty.

You cannot be rich, at least not with your job as a nurse. Everyone tells you this, and you have gradually come to believe that maybe getting wealthy has been preserved for people in other careers–with bigger paychecks.

This chapter-level book can change the way you listen to big shots - mostly businesspersons with a snapshot or two of politicians - as they pontificate for public consumption and personal gain. You'll recognize the spin, that dastardly polite euphemism for lies that the advertising/PR folks coined years ago to anoint their profession with a bit of undeserved dignity. In the process, you might gain a more realistic grasp of what's going on around you and how your mind is being manipulated, or brainwashed.

Sí sabes que NO recibirás una jubilación, ¿verdad? ¿Y que tu afore no te dará ni la tercera parte de lo que hoy ganas?... Afortunadamente, estás a tiempo de evitar una vejez pobre o, en una de esas, ¡incluso de retirarte joven! En este libro, Eduardo Rosas te cuenta, paso a pasito, las decenas de herramientas y opciones que puedes explotar para alcanzar el paraíso en la tierra: la llamada «libertad financiera».

Is life insurance a bad investment? Don’t I lose all my cash value when I die? Shouldn’t I just make a bundle and invest it instead? What about my spouse or my kids—do they need life insurance? Can I borrow money from (or is it against?) a life insurance policy? My insurance advisor told me one thing about insurance, but my financial planner gave me different advice, and an expert on TV said something else entirely. What do I do now? Help!

In Help Your Child Build Wealth: A Parent's Guide to Teaching Children To Be Successful Investors, bestselling author and investing educator Michael Sincere delivers an exciting new take on the stock market. Perfect for rookie investors with children, this book explains exactly how you can get started as a long-term investor using index funds, ETFs, and individual stocks. You'll also discover how you can teach your kids about investing in a way that gets them excited about building wealth for their futures.

George Samuel Clason is an author from the early 20th century who revolutionized financial advice. After serving in the Spanish-American War, George started writing international pamphlets about achieving financial success. The Richest Man in Babylon is a compilation of his more popular pamphlets.

Want a more prosperous, less stressful financial life? Jonathan Clements, longtime personal-finance columnist for The Wall Street Journal, is here to help. His goal: to provide listeners with a coherent way to think about their finances so they worry less about money, make smarter financial choices, and squeeze more happiness out of the dollars that they have.

How do THEY do it? Those people who are able to save and invest and not fret about their financial futures? Meet ordinary people who know how to make their money work for them.

How to Speak Money reveals how the language of money is often a tool to conceal and mislead; he explains hundreds of common economic terms, from GDP to the IMF, amortization to securitization to collateralized debt obligation; and he argues that we all need to speak money lest those who do write the financial rules for themselves.

This dynamic program, founded on cutting-edge psychological research, enables you to deconstruct and deal with stress head-on. Stress: The Psychology of Managing Pressure helps you identify external and internal sources of stress in your life and reframe unhelpful patterns of thought into powerful psychological solutions that you can apply every day. Underpinned by psychological theory, with relevant findings from psychologists, doctors, and teachers, this audiobook will help you smash the shadow of stress in any area of your life.

If there is one thing parents often forget but is actually extremely important, that’ll be financial education. It is a given that in order to survive and flourish in this world, one must know how to handle their finances. In this audiobook, parents will have a guide on how to discuss money, finances, and investments with their children comprehensively. You will see tips on how to teach your kids about how to track, budget, save, and grow money.

The Intelligent Asset Allocator has helped thousands of people like you build wealth through carefully diversified portfolios. Now, with global markets in constant flux, balancing risk and reward is more critical than ever. Self-taught investor William Bernstein offers no gimmicks, inside secrets, or magic solutions - just the facts about investing and calm smart advice on how to build and manage a portfolio designed for the long run.

Ever since he got married, author and pastor Scott LaPierre has supported his family on a single salary while remaining debt-free. He’s witnessed the stress that accompanies financial insecurity, yet he’s learned firsthand that even those with a limited income can eliminate monetary worries when they abide by biblical principles.

Not a book for those looking for a new and better get-rich-quick scheme, but an ideal guide for those who desire to create wealth, are determined to succeed, and are disciplined enough to rise above the status quo. Prescription for Wealth provides a simple and time proven way to personally free yourself from the power of those who control the wealth of the world, even in these times of financial uncertainty.

We need credit for everything nowadays, whether it's to buy a house, car, or get a loan. As you grow older, your needs change and so does your credit. Analyzing your own credit can be difficult if you don't understand what it entails. This audiobook will teach you the importance of credit and all the factors involved, from credit scores, debt, credit cards, and credit mistakes, that can contribute to or destroy ones' credit.

Investing in your future is easier than you think—discover how and achieve financial security more quickly than you can possibly imagine. Young adults are especially financially vulnerable because they’re just starting out, want a lot of “stuff,” and are not earning the big bucks yet. So, they’re borrowing too much and saving too little (if at all), and they’re in a financial mess. But it doesn’t have to be like that. Instead, imagine a life where you have peace of mind, because your financial affairs are in order, and you’re on the right path to building wealth.

Empower yourself financially with the practical steps, insights, and valuable information in this book. Marriage is about love, divorce is about money. When divorce is on your doorstep, you need to protect your financial future. This book is a guide to help you take charge of your finances through your divorce, and after. Achieve the best divorce settlement possible for you and your children.

The ultimate guide to the basics of personal finance. Manage money, plan for the future. The key to becoming your own financial hero is simpler than we think, but the knowledge has been cloaked in mystery for generations. It’s what we should have been taught in schools and skills we should have developed at a young age. Peter Komolafe inspires and educates us on how to get off their hamster wheel and take control of the one thing that will give people freedom of choice – money.

The definitive guide to financial independence at any age! Retiring early is not limited to lottery winners or the super rich. In fact with proper planning, we can all retire at a younger age than we ever dreamed - but only with the right plan. Personal finance expert Deacon Hayes explains the practical, concrete steps you can take to start your retirement when you're young enough to thoroughly enjoy it.