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    The Good Friends Guide to Money: Your Math-Free, Guilt-Free Guide to Financial Health
    The Good Friends Guide to Money: Your Math-Free, Guilt-Free Guide to Financial Health
    The Good Friends Guide to Money: Your Math-Free, Guilt-Free Guide to Financial Health
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    The Good Friends Guide to Money: Your Math-Free, Guilt-Free Guide to Financial Health

    By Lucinda Atwood, Ann Leckie and Marina Glass

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    Many women experience money as a source of worry, jealousy, frustration or sadness. They want to be responsible but feel out of control with their money. In The Good Friends Guide to Money, authors Lucinda Atwood, Ann Leckie and Marina Glass show women how to develop a great relationship with money.

    With humor and personal anecdotes, and in easily accessible language, they provide the tools to help women change unhealthy and negative thoughts about money. The Good Friends Guide to Money teaches women how to clarify their personal values, develop their own financial goals and action plans, and spend and save in alignment with those values. In addition, financial experts provide advice on topics such as starting a new job, insurance, job loss, and bankruptcy.

    The Good Friends Guide to Money is not about budgeting or deprivation. It is about thoughtfully aligning saving and spending with personal values. With clear values, women can set financial goals and action plans that fit like a well worn pair of jeans.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisheriUniverse
    Release dateSep 29, 2011
    ISBN9781462056088
    The Good Friends Guide to Money: Your Math-Free, Guilt-Free Guide to Financial Health
    Author

    Lucinda Atwood

    Lucinda Atwood, Ann Leckie and Marina Glass are entrepreneurs, business leaders, community activists, and coaches. Combining their unique strengths and talents, they authored The Good Friends Guide to Money. Visit them online at girlfriendsguidetomoney.com.

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      The Good Friends Guide to Money - Lucinda Atwood

      the Good Friend’s Guide to

      Money

      Your Math-Free, Guilt-Free Guide

      to Financial Health

      Lucinda Atwood, Ann Leckie

      and Marina Glass

      iUniverse, Inc.

      Bloomington

      The Good Friend’s Guide to Money

      Your Math-Free, Guilt-Free Guide to Financial Health

      Second Edition

      Copyright © 2011 by Lucinda Atwood, Ann Leckie and Marina Glass

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping or by any information storage retrieval system without the written permission of the publisher except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

      iUniverse books may be ordered through booksellers or by contacting:

      iUniverse

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      1-800-Authors (1-800-288-4677)

      Because of the dynamic nature of the Internet, any web addresses or links contained in this book may have changed since publication and may no longer be valid. The views expressed in this work are solely those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the publisher, and the publisher hereby disclaims any responsibility for them.

      ISBN: 978-1-4620-5607-1 (sc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4620-5609-5 (hc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4620-5608-8 (e)

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2011917154

      iUniverse rev. date: 01/10/2012

      Contents

      Introduction

      Section One

      Section Two

      Conclusion

      Endnotes

      About the Authors

      Introduction

      Do You Want to Improve your Relationship with Money?

      I’m sorry, it’s been declined. Do you have another card? The cashier hands back your debit card. Trying to look unconcerned, you pull out a credit card. Hopefully that one will go through; two declines would be embarrassing.

      Oh well, it’s only a week until payday, you can live on credit that long. But still, it’s only the 25th; last month you made it to the 28th before running out of cash. It seems that each month, the month gets longer and the cash gets shorter. One of these days you’re going to do something about that. And start a savings account. Imagine going on a real vacation …

      Which reminds you to buy a lottery ticket, or as you call it, the retirement fund.

      Do you experience money as a source of sadness, jealousy, anger, resentment, confusion or worry? Many of us do. We want to be responsible, but feel out of control with our money. We work so hard to earn it, but there never seems to be enough. We know what we should be doing, but nothing seems to work, at least not for long. We are not weak or stupid, but somehow money seems unmanageable.

      Spending is no fun either. Paying the bills is depressing; so much of our money goes for expenses. We feel guilty spending on ourselves, so we overspend in other areas. Or we overspend on ourselves, but still feel unsatisfied.

      These negative emotions diminish the quality of our lives.

      This Book will Help You Change your Relationship with Money

      Ask yourself these questions:

      1. Do you have credit card debt?

      2. Do you worry about which bills to pay this month, knowing that you can’t afford to pay all of them?

      3. Did you and your partner argue about money this month?

      4. Do you feel anxious about money?

      5. In the past month, did you save less than you think you should have?

      6. Do you ever feel jealous when friends go on a trip or to an expensive restaurant, or buy new shoes?

      7. Are you thinking about working longer hours or getting a second job in order to pay the bills? But worrying about missing out even more with your kids or partner?

      8. Do you feel that you should be doing more for family or groups you believe in such as community, religion or charities, but can’t due to lack of time and money?

      9. Do you worry about your financial future?

      10. Do you worry about your children’s relationship with money? Do you get upset when they ask you to buy things? Do they constantly beg you to buy things?

      11. In the past month, did you buy something only because it was cheap?

      12. In the past month, did you deny yourself an experience or item that you really wanted, only because of the cost?

      If you answered yes to any of these questions, you have the potential to improve the quality of your life by improving your relationship with money.

      Your relationship with money has nothing to do with the amount of money that you have. Read that sentence again: Your relationship with money has nothing to do with the amount of money that you have.

      Your sense of abundance and financial health is affected by your thoughts about money, the way you interact with it, and how you perceive the role money plays in your life. When you spend and save according to your values and goals, you will feel sufficient and abundant. You will get what you want.

      How you think and feel about money greatly affects your sense of abundance and your ability to have enough. Changing your relationship with money can change your life.

      This book was written to give you an option; to offer you a new way of thinking about abundance, your values and your money. You can create a positive and joyous — yes joyous — relationship with money.

      This book will help you to:

      • Develop a healthy relationship with money.

      • Manage your money confidently.

      • Spend and save in alignment with your goals and values.

      • Make saving and managing your money an easy and positive aspect of your life.

      • Develop a network of professionals and experts who can help you manage your money at specific times in your life.

      This Book will Help Others

      When you improve your relationship with money, you will influence your friends, family and co-workers. You will model healthy attitudes and open the door to understanding that rich is a state of mind.

      By living your values, your life will improve and you will touch the lives of others. You will free up money to donate to charities and good causes.

      And, yes, you can still have nice shoes!

      Listen up, Girlfriend …

      We wrote this book as a girlfriends guide to money. Think of us as your girlfriends, walking beside you, supporting you. We are the girlfriends you turn to when your relationship goes bad, who listen with open hearts and then tell it like it is.

      We like you. We believe in you. We believe that you — as you are — are sufficient. You have everything you need to have a healthy relationship with money; all you need is the insight to evolve your thinking.

      When you believe in yourself the way we believe in you, your relationship with money will change. You will have enough. You will find yourself spending and saving in alignment with your values.

      What this Book is Not

      This book is not a lecture — we are not here to tell you what you have done wrong or how to live. We will not encourage you to get rid of all your possessions or to stop shopping.

      This book is not about numbers and equations. It contains no math and none of those gut-wrenching, headache-inducing exercises that make most of us feel guilty and incapable.

      Who Are We?

      Image08-3authors.tif

      Lucinda Atwood, Ann Leckie

      and Marina Glass

      We are three friends who saw women giving their power away through lack of knowledge, awareness and support. We have experienced the move from lack to abundance. We know the joy of spending and saving in alignment with our values. Our goal is to help you develop a great relationship with money so that you too can live happily and fully.

      The three of us have backgrounds in finance, human

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