by Ric Edelman
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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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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
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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
 How To Be Healthy, Wealthy, & Wise the Fun Way., 2005-06-22
This is an interactive how-to book fulled with relevant comic strips and cartoons -- a very graphic publication. In it, he promotes reverse psychology to get what you want; my sister mastered in this type of child rearing which I could never learn.
This book is about setting goals, not just realistic, but real. Make this goal as though you were living it today. Visualize. By doing this, your enthusiasm will rise, your focus will intensify, and you'll be able to stick to your goal. Nothing is impossible. Sure enough, one day, you will make it happen, because you'll have made it important to you, vitally important.
After you set your goal, you have to plan how to achieve it. Too many retired people are so focused on maintaining a living that they sometimes forget to have a life, and become 'bored to tears!'
Lincoln said: "And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years." He gives several "what-if" and "if-only" scenarios.
Whatever you choose, however you go about achieving your goals, the main end result is to be happy along the way and when you reach your destination. We may not get what we want when we want it. I was told by a stranger some years ago that God does not work on our time, but He has a plan for each of us in His own time. I'd really love to go to South America to see their pyramids. John Greenleaf Whittier said, "For all sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest are those "It might have been."
He tells us that "Bill Gates is rich because he own a whole lot of Microsoft, the software company he started. He's the richest person in America, perhaps the world." Part II shows you how to have your cake and eat it, too: take your choice, pound cake is fixed income investments and stocks; marble cake is filled with both. Cupcakes are fads. Avoid them.
Learn to be yielding, and that way, you'll exercise your strength. It sounds contradictory, but it's not. Many ancient cultures consider water the strongest substance on earth because it acts with gentle persistence rather than brute strength, and in that way manages to shape its circumstances without
destroying what lies in its path. Maybe there's a lesson you could learn from that and apply to your own life.
2 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
 Not so good, 2005-06-19
I picked this book up at a dollar store so I guess I got my moneys worth . this book gives very little info compared to it's size. It does have some useful info on the morning star ratings and Bata.
For me it seems to give a lot of info what people do wrong but not How to do it right.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Two unrelated themes, one decent book, 2004-12-19
This is a decent book, if (a)you want a very interesting guide to goal setting, and (b) you want to learn about mutual funds, and the ideas involved in modern portfolio allocation. So in one way, it is two books in one. The two however, are NOT related in a real way. While some of the advertising and blurbs for this book make it sould like the investing section will in some way help you to more rapidly reach the goals you set in the front "goal setting" section, this is almost certainly not going to happen. The mutual fund, and the "modern portfolio allocation" are not radical way to improve returns. If you follow the advice of this book, you will (a) do about as well as most any disciplined investor, and (b) protect yourself from possibility of massive loss in the type of market we have just been through. You will probably not be touring the world on a sailboat, operating a first class horse farm, or living in luxury in Europe, which are type of goals Mr. Edelman encourages the reader to engage in at the front of the book. So my only complaint would be that the book promises much more than it returns. But if you read each half of the book, as clearly NOT related to the other half, it is a useful tool, in particular the thoughts on portfolio allocation, and the links near the end. It is clearly written and easy to understand in most ways.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
An easy (and funny?) book on personal finance, 2004-03-16
This is a book for personal finance. But it only concentrate on 2 main topics - setting up goals and picking up mutual funds. On goal setting, it is one of a few books that give such an emphasis (and proportion) on this topic. It is important, critical, but somewhat over-long. (Imagine listing several pages of places/events that help you to pick up for your goal?) The good side is that the importance of goal setting is applicable is many other areas - not just personal finance. The second half of the book is about mutual funds, and there are some very interesting 'facts' - e.g. Morning Star ratings, index fund, tax benefit, etc. Since the author is quite humorous, it is a very easy read for the 300+ pages. One thing I only like is that some of the footnotes are totally pointless - they are there just for the sake of being funny?? Maybe Ric can consider 2 labelling of footnotes - one is useful and the other is only joke.
4 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
 Truth, honesty and Integrity, 2004-01-18
These are the three values that come to mind when I think of Ric Edelman. There are many financial books out there and advisors eager to take your money, but how many can you trust?Edelman was named the #1 financial advisor by Research magazine for his focus on the individual client. He has earned three Awards of Excellence by Royal Alliance Associates, was named Ace Advisor of the Year by Ticker Magazine, named Financial Planner of the Year three times by World Invest Magazine and named one of the D.C. areas top financial professionals by Washingtonian magazine. His firm Edelman Financial Services Inc., has won more than 50 professional, business, community service and philantropic awards, was named three times by Inc. magazine as the largest growing privately owned financial company in the nation. awards and has been ranked twice by Bloomberg Wealth Manager as one of the largest independent financial planning and investment management firms in the nation (his firm ranks 6th in the nation). The firm has created and implemented financial plans for more than 6,500 clients, and today Ric and his team manage $2 billion for people across the country. His classic book The Truth About Money was named book of the year by Small Press magazine and his five books have collectively sold over a million copies. Ric has also earned several financial designations, CFS, RFC, CMFC, CRC, and QFC. Finally the man has three important qualifications: Truth, Honesty and Integrity. Ric Edelman is not a "me-too" financial author. He stands alone. In the opinion of many, he is the best.
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