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    #MoneyConscious Financial Planning Guide: 12 Steps to a Richer You
    #MoneyConscious Financial Planning Guide: 12 Steps to a Richer You
    #MoneyConscious Financial Planning Guide: 12 Steps to a Richer You
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    #MoneyConscious Financial Planning Guide: 12 Steps to a Richer You

    By The Debt Free Guys

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    #MoneyConscious Financial Planning Guide: 12 Steps to a Richer You is the Debt Free Guys’ third release in the #MoneyConscious Series. The Financial Planning Guide is designed to help anyone easily create a financial plan and achieve financial success. Most people fail in life because they fail to plan appropriately if they plan at all. David and John utilize stories that have withstood the test of time, such as Aesop’s Fable of the Grasshopper and the Ant and the professor who filled rocks, pebbles and sand as a metaphor for life, to weave twelve steps anyone can follow to create a successful financial plan. This easy to read eBook will help you create the perfect plan to help you reach your financial goals and achieve financial independence.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherThe Debt Free Guys
    Release dateSep 15, 2014
    ISBN9781311600714
    #MoneyConscious Financial Planning Guide: 12 Steps to a Richer You
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    The Debt Free Guys

    The mission of the Debt Guys is to help each person become Money Conscious resulting in eliminating their debt, living a debt free life and empowering them to achieve financial success by virtue of the universal principles discovered by us through our own financial mistakes, victories and professional training. Despite having had thirteen years of experience working in financial services between the two of us, we were financial messes. We were two thirty-something professionals with $51,000 of combined credit card debt, living in a basement apartment. After reaching our rock-bottom, we made the decision to not continue on the road we had been for so long. Now we're out of debt and this blog is to help others reach that same goal. David now has seventeen years of experience in financial services working in mutual fund and the institutional side of the brokerage industry. He holds a degree in International Business, is Series 7, 66, 9 and 10 licensed. John Schneider now has thirteen years of experience in financial services in both retail and institutional investing. He carries a Master’s Degree in Business Administration and is Series 7, 63, 9, 10, 66 and 24 licensed. David and John have been together for over ten years and live in Denver, CO. They love to travel, enjoy wine and being with family and friends.

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      #MoneyConscious Financial Planning Guide - The Debt Free Guys

      #MoneyConscious Financial Planning Guide:

      12 Steps to a Richer You

      By

      David Auten and John R. Schneider, III

      of

      The Debt Free Guys

      Smashwords Edition

      Published by David Auten and John R. Schneider, III at Smashwords

      Copyright 2014 David Auten and John R. Schneider, III

      Smashwords Edition, License Notes

      This eBook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This eBook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to your favorite eBook retailer and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      Content

      Introduction

      Dedication

      Acknowledgements

      The Grasshopper and the Ant

      The Fable in Our Lives

      The Big (Not so Dumb) Rocks

      Be the Ant

      Rock of Ages

      Pebble Beach (It’s Not Just for Golf)

      The Sand Beneath Your Toes

      Avoid Quicksand

      Other titles by the Debt Free Guys

      Introduction

      Through our own financial journeys and professional experiences, we’ve come to the conclusion that most people go through their financial lives unconscious. Many don’t understand how their spending, saving and investing habits, or lack thereof, affect them. Whether because of disillusionment from never-ending stock market crashes and Wall Street scandals or because it’s simply too hard, many aren’t aware of what is going on in the economy and financial world around them. This makes achieving financial success and independence next to impossible. Our goal with the #MoneyConscious Series is to

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