Activate Your Money

Educate yourself about finance and socially conscious investing with a woman-centered approach Activate Your Money provides the foundational support women need to talk to each other about their money, invest to grow their wealth, and to take the actions required to shift their assets into alignment with their values. Written for smart, savvy women who want to feel financially empowered, Activate Your Money starts where other personal finance books leave off. It delivers the depth of information you need to make informed investment decisions across your entire portfolio. Starting with checking and savings accounts and proceeding asset class by asset class, this book provides you with core investment knowledge, as well as concrete examples about how and where you can invest your money in alignment with your values. You don't have to do it alone. As women, our strength is in relationships, and this book will help you use that strength to attain better financial outcomes for yourself and your family. Activate Your Money will help you find communities of support and position you to share your knowledge with other women and enable the next generation of smart, confident values-aligned investors. Activate Your Money also includes a companion website that contains downloadable tools you can use to take action and a curriculum that guides women through the process of starting and running their own values-aligned investment clubs. Step up your relationship with money and recognize the power you have to change the world through your investment decisions Demystify financial lingo, learn investment strategies, and acquire tools to help you grow your wealth Explore values-aligned investment options, asset class by asset class, and make informed decisions about where to put your money Break the taboo on discussing money with partners, advisors, friends, and daughters Unlike any other investing book out there, Activate Your Money offers expert guidance, a uniquely woman-centered approach, and a focus on doing good while doing well. Whether you are just starting out or are already a seasoned investor, this book has something for you. Use it as a reference that you can return to again and again as you build your knowledge, confidence, and values-aligned portfolio.

Where does your money come from? Do you earn it or is it given to you? What do you do with your money? Do you save it, spend it, or share it? Your Money takes a look at the financial literacy issues of earning, budgeting, handling debt, sharing and spending in an easy to understand, accessible manner. Includes a table of contents, glossary, index, websites and books for further information, and discussion questions.

Named the best personal finance book on the market by Consumers Union, Jane Bryant Quinn's bestseller Making the Most of Your Money has been completely revised and updated to provide a guide to financial recovery, independence, and success in the new economy. Getting your financial life on track and keeping it there -- nothing is more important to your family and you. This proven, comprehensive guidebook steers you around the risks and helps you make smart and profitable decisions at every stage of your life. Are you single, married, or divorced? A parent with a paycheck or a parent at home? Getting your first job or well along in your career? Helping your kids in college or your parents in their older age? Planning for retirement? Already retired and worried about how to make your money last? You'll find ideas to help you build your financial security here. Jane Bryant Quinn answers more questions more completely than any other personal-finance author on the market today. You'll reach for this book again and again as your life changes and new financial decisions arise. Here are just a few of the important subjects she examines: • Setting priorities during and after a financial setback, and bouncing back • Getting the most out of a bank while avoiding fees • Credit card and debit card secrets that will save you money • Family matters -- talking money before marriage and mediating claims during divorce • Cutting the cost of student debt, and finding schools that will offer big "merit" scholarships to your child • The simplest ways of pulling yourself out of debt • Why it's so important to jump on the automatic-savings bandwagon • Buying a house, selling one, or trying to rent your home when buyers aren't around • Why credit scores are more important than ever, plus tips on keeping yours in the range most attractive to lenders • Investing made easy -- mutual funds that are tailor-made for your future retirement • What every investor needs to know about building wealth • How an "investment policy" helps you make wise decisions in any market • The essential tax-deferred retirement plans, from 401(k)s to Individual Retirement Accounts -- and how to manage them • How to invest in real estate at a bargain price (and how to spot something that looks like a bargain but isn't) • Eleven ways of keeping a steady income while you're retired, even after a stock market crash • Financial planning -- what it means, how you do it, and where to find good planners Page by page, Quinn leads you through the pros and cons of every decision, to help you make the choice that will suit you best. This is the single personal-finance book that no family should be without.

Create the environment to attract the life that you deserve, with the guidance of internationally renowned Feng Shui Master Marie Diamond. Rooted in ancient Chinese culture, Feng Shui is a system that teaches people how to arrange their living space to attract health, wealth, happiness, and good energy—or chi—into their lives. Marie Diamond’s unique Diamond Feng Shui system combines traditional Feng Shui teachings with the Law of Attraction, neuroscience, and quantum physics to help you increase the abundant energy in your home and in your life. In this book, you will learn: The importance of space clearing to create a more mindful, relaxed, and organized home. How your personal energy number can help you attract the things you want with quicker and better results. Ways to activate your Feng Shui with crystals, plants, flowers, and water. Tips for activating your success, money, health, and relationship goals. Ways to Feng Shui different parts of your home to improve the energy flow and boost your chi, including your front door, family space, bedrooms, and kitchen. Feng Shui Your Life offers exercises, tools, and practical guidance, and will become your go-to resource to help you attract a life of abundance beyond your wildest dreams.

The Seven Essential Money Skills are the core skills that anyone who handles money should have to build a functional relationship with money. The journey starts with creative thought and creative increase to create multiple streams of income. You learn functional saving techniques for investing purposes, which leads to focus on building value through your money and other resources. Protection techniques and control mechanisms allows you to keep all or most of what you create. This leads you to willingly sharing your abundance with those you love. People who retire without money, more often than not, did not build a healthy and functional relationship with their money while they could. By applying these skills in your life, you ensure a healthy financial future.Learn these skills, install them into your character, activate them and live by them to build a healthy relationship with your money. Money follows the character of its owner. To change money's direction, you need to change the character of the owner.

Profiles several investor personality types to enable readers to understand their own personal strengths and weaknesses and make informed financial plans, sharing simple instructions on how to maximize gains with a minimum of effort. By the author of Everyone's Money Book. 50,000 first printing.

When it comes to money, it pays to know yourself. This is NOT just another money book. Personal finance expert Rachel Cruze brings an all-new approach to the traditional money rules, and it all starts with your mindset. Go beyond the Ramsey Baby Steps and get to the root of all of your decisions—your mind, your behaviors, and your beliefs— so you can change your money mindset for good. You may already know how to make the right money decisions, BUT you probably still find yourself slipping into impulse purchases, dipping into savings, disagreeing on your budget with your spouse, and wondering “Why did I do that?!” If so, this book is for YOU. Rachel Cruze explains the psychology, strengths, and challenges that come with each of her brand-new Seven Money Tendencies: Saver or Spender Nerd or Free Spirit Experiences or Things Quality or Quantity Safety or Status Abundance or Scarcity Planned Giving or Spontaneous Giving Along with discovering where you land on the scale of Seven Money Tendencies, this book also introduces new ways to understand how your parents, your fears, and your beliefs impact your money mindset. You’ll learn: Which of the Four Childhood Money Classrooms shaped your personality How the Six Core Money Fears can drive your most common money mistakes Why you handle money the way you do, and what to do about it You DON’T have to white-knuckle your way toward financial freedom. This book will show you how to make taking control of your money so much easier (and fun).

Magnetism flows through your brain and body, as well as throughout time and space. Your mind can be magnetized with ideas that cause it to attract whatever you want. Just as your mind sends out magnetic wavelengths to cause you to desire food when you are hungry, so too, your mind can be magnetized with wavelengths of desire to attract money. possessions, friends, love, happiness, gifts, talents and everything you need to give you a perfect life here and now. This book gives you a proven step-by-step system for supercharging the powerful, money-pulling poles of your mind with money magnetism-the same power that geniuses of the past have used, and our modern millionaires employ every day But here's the good part. You don't have to be a genius to put these secrets to work. Once you discover the simple methods and practices in this book, you too can magnetize your brain centers with ideas that irresistibly attract-almost as if by magic-money, lands, possessions, jewels, houses, friends-all the rich, fine and glittering things in life. This book is filled with real-life accounts of ordinary people-just like yourself-who've used these secrets to bring a floodtide of riches into their lives. You, too, have only to stir up the "mental filings" in your mind. The magnetic force is already there. You have only to use this book and, by so doing, turn on the switch that releases an unending stream of abundant riches-beginning right now. But don't take my word for it. Let me prove this to you.