Financial Jiu-Jitsu: A Fighter's Guide to Conquering Your Finances - Hardcover

Ford, Scott

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0470648309 ISBN 13: 9780470648308

Publisher: Wiley, 2010

Synopsis

A unique approach to personal finance that tackles money like a jiu-jitsu fighter would tackle an opponent In martial arts and personal finance, fundamentals are important. But while failing in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu may be disappointing, it's nothing compared to failing to build wealth and creating a better future for your family. Nobody understands this better than Scott Ford, a top-ranked financial advisor and Jiu-Jitsu enthusiast. Now, in Financial Jiu-Jitsu, he shows you how to overcome your emotions and state of mind to excel at your investing endeavors. Along the way, Ford teaches you fundamental skills such as automating your savings and investments, the importance of paying yourself first, and managing credit wisely. * Compares the patience and practice of the martial arts, specifically Jiu-Jitsu, to investing * Offers an approach to adapting to financial change as you move through life, while maintaining the same guiding principles * Author Scott Ford is ranked in the top one percent of all financial advisors The guiding principles in this book are the foundation of your financial fight plan and the keys to reaching your financial dreams. No matter what punches the market or the economy throws at you, if you follow these principles you'll always react well in the face of adversity.

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A unique approach to personal finance that tackles money like a jiu-jitsu fighter would tackle an opponent In martial arts and personal finance, fundamentals are important. But while failing in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu may be disappointing, it's nothing compared to failing to build wealth and creating a better future for your family.

From the Back Cover:

What is mind over market?

The financial market is like an adversary that's bigger, faster, and stronger than you as an individual investor could ever hope to be. Financial Jiu-Jitsu: A Fighter's Guide to Conquering Your Finances evens the playing field, showing you how to be a smarter fighter in the battle for financial freedom.

From year to year and even minute to minute, financial markets change, sometimes dramatically. The average investor grapples with this fact in one of two ways: fear everything and do nothing, or get emotionally caught up in Wall Street's every move, reacting impulsively and irrationally to each up or down. There's a third option. And if it's your hope to achieve a firm financial footing, it's your only option--master the guiding principles of finance to achieve mind over market, expertly and effortlessly adapting to and overcoming market swings. Financial Jiu-Jitsu shows you how to master the basic principles of finance to:

• Overcome fear
• Set aside emotions
• Build a financial foundation that can be leveraged to build real wealth regardless of what the market throws at you

Everyone's fighting a battle for financial freedom. Most are losing. Financial Jiu-Jitsu shows you how to win.

About this edition

• Publisher: Wiley
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0470648309
• ISBN 13: 9780470648308
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 208