Discover the Wealth Within You: A Financial Plan For Creating a Rich and Fulfilling Life - Hardcover

Edelman, Ric

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0060008326 ISBN 13: 9780060008321

Publisher: Harper Business, 2002

Synopsis

Most people say they want money so they can buy a home, send children to college...and retire comfortably.

Those are fine goals. But, as Ric Edelman points out in this book, there is -- or rather, should be -- a lot more to life. Have your goals and dreams gotten lost in your daily struggle to earn a living and provide for your family?

Join Ric on a journey to self-discover. In Discover the Wealth Within You, he shows you how to choose fun, enriching...and rewarding goals and gives you a simple straightforward plan for achieving them.

You'll discover how easy it is to create wealth, once you set the right goals. After all, as Ric reveals in this book, all you need to become wealthy is to decide what you want to do with your money. With enticing, personal goals in place, you'll motivate, excite...and sustain yourself in your quest for wealth.

After using Ric's worksheet to help you set goals properly, you'll embark on a detailed exploration of personal investing, Ric reveals his formula for creating a plan to achieve your goals, build your financial future...and finance your dreams -- all through his unique, time-tested investing strategies.

By following Ric's plans and guidelines, you can achieve a healthy, balanced and richly rewarding life. Anyone can do it, he stresses, with the tools and techniques he provides. So, join Ric and discover the wealth within you.

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Review:

Ric Edelman believes you can't create a truly effective personal finance plan until you really know what you want out of life. In Discover the Wealth Within You he shows how to develop a realistic series of individualized goals for your future, and then how to construct an investment program to help you realize them. Edelman, author of New York Times bestsellers Ordinary People, Extraordinary Wealth and The Truth About Money, draws on these books to explain why we're ultimately more successful with our financial agenda when we focus on it as a means to an array of unambiguous objectives (such as "see an event in person during the next Winter Olympics" or "have plastic surgery in three years") rather than vague long-range aspirations (like saving "for retirement" or to "buy a house"). In the first section he unveils a step-by-step process for determining the precise objectives that motivate us; in the second he points us toward a mutual-fund-based savings plan that should be easier to capitalize consistently because we know where it's taking us and when we'll get there. Incorporating a profusion of appropriate cartoon strips, inspirational testimonials, persuasive statistics, and an unusual assembly of footnotes that are as amusing as they are informative, Edelman offers a clear and innovative course of action that could turn even procrastinating wannabes into enthusiastic money managers. --Howard Rothman

About the Author:

Ric Edelman is Barron's #1 independent financial advisor, the bestselling author of seven books on personal finance, and host of The Ric Edelman Show, heard on radio stations nationwide. Ric's firm, Edelman Financial Services, manages $5 billion in assets and has been helping people achieve financial success for twenty-five years.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harper Business
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0060008326
• ISBN 13: 9780060008321
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 416