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"The book’s gem is a personal financial action plan that allows easy assessment of current assets and retirement goals…This book demystifies the many obstacles--from the logistical to the conceptual--to smart financial planning.”
--Publishers Weekly
"Eric Tyson is the best personal finance writer at work today. In a field cluttered with hucksters, false gurus, and just plain bad advice, this book delivers powerful common sense. I trust Eric Tyson, and you should, too.”
--Tom Ehrenfeld, former writer and Editor at Harvard Business Review and Inc. Magazine, author of The Startup Garden: How Growing a Business Grows You
"Many people have developed attitudes, beliefs, and fears about money that prevent them from acquiring, investing, and spending it in healthy ways...Eric Tyson helps readers get past all that...and start building happy and healthy financial futures. Everyone can profit from this new book--I did."
--Dr. Brian Russell, Psychologist as seen on CNN, Court TV, and Fox News; Professor, University of Kansas
Transform Your Personal Financial Habits and Attitudes...And Your Life!
Real money solutions from the best-selling author of Personal Finance For Dummies, Eric Tyson!
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Save smarter, invest smarter, and spend smarter, starting today
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Reduce your financial risks--and eliminate your money anxieties
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For everyone interested in improving their personal finances…whether you’re saving for college, retirement, or anything else
Worried about money? Join the club. Now, do something about it! One of America’s best-selling personal finance authors offers real, practical solutions that work: steps you can take right now to start replacing money anxiety with financial fulfillment and happiness. Eric Tyson gets straight to the point, identifying the habits that put you at risk--and helping you replace them with the habits of financial success. Tyson offers plain-English, no-gimmick techniques you can really use: knowledge you’d have to pay a fortune for, if you could get it at all!
Financial success doesn’t just “happen”: it’s determined by your financial habits. Fortunately, you can develop good financial habits--and systematically eliminate the bad ones that stand in your way. Eric Tyson will show you how--step-by-step and hands-on.
Millions of people have benefited from Tyson’s best-selling books and award-winning columns. Now he brings together all he’s learned over two decades--including financial management secrets most professionals never tell you about.
Tyson will help you organize your finances…take control of your future…make plans you’ll actually implement…save, spend, and invest more effectively…choose the right advisors…reduce your risks…and put money where it belongs in your life (instead of making it your whole life!).
This meaty, action-oriented guide is packed with checklists and worksheets that’ll help you start today, get results fast, and make positive changes that will last a lifetime!
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Develop the best habits, and use the best strategies
What you can learn from the nation’s best personal financial managers
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Take control of your finances, one step at a time
Make plans that work--and make your plans work
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Transform your hopes and ideas into action
Everything you need is here, including hands-on worksheets and practical exercises
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Get real, not real obsessed!
Learn how to give money the right role in your life...not your whole life!
Customer Reviews
Average Customer Review
(17 customer reviews) 17 of 18 people found the following review helpful
Getting Real About Not Just Your Money,
December 11, 2007 Tricia Huff (Cincinnati, OH) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Let's Get Real About Money! (Paperback)
". . . my best days at work don't even come close to the best days with my kids." p. 86 of Eric Tyson's "Let's Get Real About Money." Often, personal finance literature takes a quietly dismissive tone when discussing the claims of family, time and quality of life. Tyson's latest book has an unusually open acknowledgment from a financial advisor that it takes more to be happy than climbing the corporate ladder and stockpiling our nest egg. If you have ever thought other finance writers have sidelined the real issues of balancing work and money with family, then you will feel validated by the serious attention Tyson gives these concerns. When does climbing the corporate ladder deliver diminishing returns? How do I teach my kids good financial habits? The personal consequences of super savers, those who save compulsively, are explored alongside of the expected cautionary tales of high consumption debtors. I was heartened by Tyson's balanced approach to money management.
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13 of 15 people found the following review helpful
Eric Tyson does it again!,
December 3, 2007 Dexter L. Hall (Houston, TX) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Let's Get Real About Money! (Paperback)
I have bought several books by Eric Tyson, and this is his best. Eric Tyson provides you with a concise way to handle your personal finances. After reading this book you will not need to purchase another personal finance book from another person. This book also teaches you how to invest in quality mutual funds.Tyson is the best personal finance author out there.Tyson also talks about investing in your personal health. If you purchase this book you will never be the same.
9 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Basic Book With Slightly Misleading Subtitle,
April 9, 2011 goldenrulecomics (New Jersey) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Let's Get Real About Money! (Paperback)
Let's Get Real About Money is a basic introduction to developing good personal finance habits, from getting a sense of what your net worth is to constructing a spending plan, investing and buying insurance and other essentials. Not much is new or revolutionary, so if you have read one or more other personal finance books this one won't make much of a difference. I found the subtitle of the book a bit misleading, because there really isn't any discussion about the habits of the best personal finance managers. The book contains the author's best advice, which is good, but I didn't see much about other managers. For more in-depth book reviews I've done, search for goldenrulecomics on the Squidoo website.
