The 9 Steps to Financial Freedom: Practical and Spiritual Steps So You Can Stop Worrying

The 9 Steps to Financial Freedom: Practical and Spiritual Steps So You Can Stop Worrying | Suze Orman | This Book changed My Life

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	The 9 Steps to Financial Freedom: Practical and Spiritual Steps So You Can Stop Worrying Suze Orman Three Rivers Press, 2006 - 352 pages average customer review:based on 210 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Thought provoking, simple and spares financial lingo

Do you constantly worry about your financial future? Are you willing to take the steps that free you from these worries? Are you not an organized person when it comes to your finances? If you answered "Yes" to all these questions then reading the 9 steps to financial freedom will be of immense assistance to your personal and financial future.

In the initial chapters, Suze asks you to ponder a number of questions on the purpose, honesty, responsibility, respect, trust etc among you, your loved ones and your money. Along those lines, Suze also gives insight has to the legal issues involved in creating everything from a simple Will, Trust and doing taxes etc. She even dedicates a chapter to debt management.

Suze dedicated several of the pages to strategies for creating wealth in the long term through investing. She discusses Mutual Funds, 401K and other retirement plans, Index funds, stocks. She also compares all the above among themselves and from the point of view of taxes. Finally, Suze reaches the spiritual world such as charities to answer the issues of financial freedom per se.

On a final note, the book is intended toward novices and people who do not have any or much knowledge of the investment and legal issues related to the financial world. If you already are well organized financially, I do not think you will gain much out of the book. Nevertheless, it is good read and well written with a simple language and lucid style.

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This Book changed My Life

I was clueless about finances until I read 9 Steps to Financial Freedom. I now have paid off all my credit cards and I'm more conscious about what I spend...also thanks to Moneypants.com

Thanks to Suze Orman learning about finances and money has been
a pleasure. I highly recommend ALL her books.

Gets to the root of the matter

I enjoy reading Suze Orman's columns, so I thought I'd see what she says in some of her books. I consider myself pretty financially savvy, so I wasn't expecting to pick up much I could really use from this book.

But I was wrong. The first two of the nine steps ask us to examine our first impressions of money from our childhood and then our fears about money. The third step asks us to really look at where our money is going, by looking at two years' worth of bills, credit card statements, and other papers. These seemed pretty basic to me.

Then we get to Steps Four through Six, where the more practical advice is given. I found it interesting that estate planning was before anything else, but when Ms. Orman explained why, it made perfect sense (people before money -- take care of those you love). Step Five is learning to make your money work harder, and Step Six asks you to trust yourself more than you trust others. I got real actionable advice from each of these chapters.

Steps Seven through Nine are where some people might tune out; they have to do with the spiritual aspects of money, including the benefits of giving. Even if they sound kind of woo-woo at first, if you think about them, they do make sense. If you regularly give money to worthy causes, for example, you are connected to something bigger than yourself. This will make you more engaged in general, and could conceivably affect your own bottom line in a positive way.

I liked both the practical and the spiritual aspects of this book. Of course, when making your own financial plan, you should heed Ms. Orman's advice: do your homework, consult experts, and then listen to your own voice.

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