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Personal Finance
Personal Finance
Complete Guide to Organize, Protect, and Grow Your Money
Almost nobody fails with money because of bad math, but because of invisible habits. A practical, evidence-based guide to understanding your relationship with money, setting up a budget that works, getting out of debt, investing with common sense, protecting what you have, and planning every stage of life. Without get-rich-quick promises: with order, patience, and criteria.
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Contents
- Introduction. The System Decides Before Your Salary Does
- 1. Behavior Matters More Than Knowledge
- 2. The Phrases from Home That Still Decide for You
- 3. When Scarcity Takes Over Your Mind
- 4. The Three Seconds Before You Pay
- 5. The Raise That Evaporates
- 6. The Wealth You Can't See
- 7. How Much Is Enough: What the Data Say About Money and Well-Being
- 8. Spending the Same Money Better
- 9. The Order in Which Money Gets Fixed
- 10. Five Numbers to Know How You're Doing
- 11. What an Hour of Your Life Costs
- 12. From "I Want to Save" to $200 on the 5th
- 13. The Chart on the Wall and the Crossover Point
- 14. A Budget That Lasts Longer Than February
- 15. Every Dollar with a Job
- 16. Three Numbers Instead of Thirty
- 17. A Lot on What You Love, Nothing on What You Don't Care About
- 18. A Salary for People Without a Salary
- 19. The Small Leaks
- 20. The Best-Paid Hour of the Year
- 21. Five Minutes a Day
- 22. You First, Then Everyone Else
- 23. Saving So Little It Doesn't Hurt
- 24. The Cushion
- 25. Each Saving in Its Own Drawer
- 26. Planning for the Plan That Fails
- 27. What Borrowed Money Really Costs
- 28. The Plan to Get Out
- 29. Which One First?
- 30. The Small Number on the Statement
- 31. Pay in Full or Nothing
- 32. Your Reputation as a Borrower
- 33. When It's No Longer Enough
- 34. Renting Isn't Throwing Money Away (and Buying Isn't Always Investing)
- 35. The Twenty-Five-Year Debt
- 36. The Car That Doesn't Eat Your Salary
- 37. Every Experience Has Its Decade
- 38. The Asset That Doesn't Show Up on Your Statement
- 39. The Raise Is Earned Months Before You Ask for It
- 40. Five Hours a Week with What You Already Know
- 41. More Than One Cable
- 42. Before You Quit
- 43. The Business's Money Isn't Your Money
- 44. Charging What Your Work Is Worth
- 45. Kiyosaki and DeMarco Under the Microscope
- 46. The Tax Nobody Votes For
- 47. A Ten-Year Head Start
- 48. The Pieces on the Board
- 49. Your First Portfolio, in One Afternoon
- 50. Buying the Whole Haystack
- 51. What They Take Without You Noticing
- 52. Owner or Gambler
- 53. Nobody Knows What the Market Will Do Tomorrow
- 54. Bricks, Funds, or Deposits
- 55. The All-Weather Portfolio, with Its Fine Print
- 56. The Day Everything Is in the Red
- 57. Crypto Without Faith and Without Fear
- 58. Insure the Catastrophe, Not the Phone
- 59. The First Two Weeks Without a Job
- 60. So the Blow Doesn't Break You
- 61. The Pattern of Every Scam
- 62. Your Money Lives on Your Phone
- 63. Pay What You Owe, Not a Cent More
- 64. What You Leave in Order
- 65. The First Paycheck Builds the System
- 66. The Conversation Couples Put Off
- 67. Thirty Minutes a Month, as a Couple
- 68. Real Money to Learn for Real
- 69. Lending to Someone You Love
- 70. Support Without Carrying
- 71. The Inheritance That Arrives in Time
- 72. Will It Be Enough?
- 73. Getting Off the Treadmill
- 74. Your Number, and the Fine Print of the 4% Rule
- Conclusion. Ten Rules on One Page