The Six-Day Financial Makeover: Transform Your Financial Life in Less Than a Week!

by Robert Pagliarini

Overview

In six short days you can and will experience a total financial transformation! There are truckloads of investing and personal finance books available. What makes this one different? You'll learn how to develop a compelling financial vision for your life, quickly put your savings on autopilot, maximize your success by investing with a purpose, survive when disasters strike, and protect your loved ones in a way that's simple, effective, and fun.

This isn't just another personal finance book—one that rehashes the same tired financial rules of thumb and glib investment advice. Financial Motivator Robert Pagliarini provides specific guidance that cuts through the "financial fog"—complex jargon and wishy-washy advice—that makes it hard for people to understand and implement positive financial changes in their lives.

More than a book, The Six-Day Financial Makeover will not only show you exactly what you need to do to radically improve your finances, but it will also help you easily implement the advice . . . in just six days!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781429976862
Publisher:	St. Martin's Publishing Group
Publication date:	10/03/2006
Sold by:	Macmillan
Format:	eBook
Pages:	304
File size:	679 KB

About the Author

ROBERT PAGLIARINI is a Certified Financial Planner and holds a master's degree in Financial Services. He is an expert in many areas of personal finance, with a particular emphasis in helping others define their vision and discover their goals, align their resources with what's most important to them, invest using a unique goal-oriented strategy, protect assets, and prevent financial disasters. Raised in a poor family by a single mother of five, Robert was inspired to pursue a career in financial planning to help women and ordinary families experience a greater sense of security and financial independence. Robert has been interviewed by CNN, The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, Money Magazine, the Associated Press, the Los Angeles Times, Woman's Day, and NPR's Marketplace, among other national media. He lives in Orange County, California with his family.

Robert Pagliarini is a Certified Financial Planner™ with a master's degree in financial services. He is the president of Pacifica Wealth Advisors, a boutique wealth management firm recently ranked one of the top in the nation, and the author of the The Six-Day Financial Makeover, The Other 8 Hours and the ebook, Plan Z: How to Survive the 2009 Financial Crisis (and even live a little better).

Robert has appeared as a financial expert on 20/20, Good Morning America, Dr. Phil, ABC Morning News, NPR’s Marketplace and in The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, BusinessWeek, Money Magazine and many others. Robert lives with his wife and daughter in Orange County, California. On most Sundays you’ll find them at Saddleback Church, and occasionally at Disneyland. 

Read an Excerpt

Chapter One
Do You Need a Financial Makeover?

Do you want more from life? Are you working harder and putting in longer hours but don't feel financially secure or satisfied with your progress? Many of us are making more money but we still don't feel that we've made it. What do you think about when you're alone? When the phones aren't ringing and the television is off, what occupies your thoughts? What questions or concerns do you have just before falling asleep at night? In those quiet moments when you are able to reflect, are you satisfied with your financial situation or do you yearn for more?

Regardless of your present situation, you can achieve the life you've always dreamed of. It doesn't matter who you are or where you live. It doesn't matter if you had a privileged childhood of abundance or one of hardship and scarcity. With this book, you can improve your life and chart your own destiny in six short days.

This chapter is your wake-up call. Do you feel that you are maximizing your potential? Do you feel that you are living the life that you've always wanted? If you are financially frustrated, insecure, or just plain scared, you can feel financially secure and realize all of your dreams with a financial makeover.

Should I read this chapter?

True False

1. I thought I would have a more fulfilled life than I do right now.

2. I think making money is the most important goal to have.

3. I don't know what it would take to have a balanced life.

4. I don't know why financial independence is a worthwhile goal.

5. I'd like to learn about the incredible opportunity I
have to improve my finances and my life through a financial makeover.

If you answered any of these questions TRUE, you should read this chapter.

What Is a Financial Makeover?

Maybe you're not sure what to expect from a financial makeover. That's fair. It's good to be a little skeptical. If you're familiar with fashion makeover, you know the successful ones don't stop with a facial or a new wardrobe. Successful makeovers require a total transformation--from head to toe and inside and out. Likewise, your financial makeover won't stop with just a budget or an investment plan. Your financial transformation will include all of the critical areas of your financial life--creating a spending and savings plan, protecting assets, investing wisely, risk management, insurance, estate planning, and much, much more.

Over the next six days, your financial makeover will strip away everything that is not working--maybe you're spending too much, sabotaging your own success, taking too much risk, not investing wisely, or leaving yourself and your loved ones financially exposed--and replace it with a solid foundation from which you can immediately start to see success and feel a sense of confidence. Your financial makeover will also maximize what you're already doing well. If you have powerful and inspiring goals, are saving diligently, and investing well, your Six-Day Financial Makeover will help you maximize and optimize your strengths.

I will walk with you, step by step, throughout the six-day transformation. Together we will turn the complexities of budgeting, investing, insurance, and estate planning into something understandable and practical. We're going to take the "pie-in-the-sky" theories and turn them into bite-sized pieces that you can implement in your life immediately.

Copyright © 2006 by Robert Pagliarini. All rights reserved.

Editorial Reviews

"If you're serious about taking charge of your financial future, this book is a must-read. Self-assessments, clear examples, and direct advice make it understandable and valuable even to financial ostriches." —Lois P. Frankel, Ph.D., author of the international bestseller Nice Girls Don't Get Rich

"Finally, a finance book that acknowledges the importance of more than just money! In addition to thickening your wallet, Pagliarini's advice should boost your well-being!" —Tom Rath, New York Times bestselling coauthor of How Full Is Your Bucket?

"With the help of this book, money does not have to be the obstacle that stops you from achieving your dreams. This program is powerful, easy to use, and insightful." —Marcia Wieder, author of Making Your Dreams Come True

"This book gives you practical tools and a proven system to organize your financial life and ultimately achieve financial independence. it should be required reading for everyone." —Brian Tracy, author of Getting Rich Your Own Way and Eat That Frog!

"Robert Pagliarini offers a personalized program that makes taking control of your financial life fun and easy. With The Six-Day Financial Makeover, you'll get smarter with your money, motivated about your life, and happier with your financial success." —Jennifer Openshaw, author of The Millionaire Zone and host of ABC Radio's Winning Advice with Jennifer Openshaw

"Robert Pagliarini's book is designed to reach the average American and is particularly suited to those who suffer from personal-finance phobia. Reading it will help you get a handle on this important area of your life." —Barbara Whelehan, Bankrate.com

"The Six-Day Financial Makeover is the right medicine for virtually every investor who craves sound, practical insight regarding how to best navigate the complicated world of insurance, investments, and retirement planning. Robert Pagliarini, MSFS, has generated a thought-provoking work that provides a road map to financial literacy for those on Main Street as well as Wall Street." —Dr. Larry Barton, President and Chief Executive Officer of The American College

"An excellent blend of psychological and financial insight into our relationship with money." —Eileen Gallo, Ph.D. and Jon Gallo, principals of The Gallo Institute and authors of Silver Spoon Kids and The Financially Intelligent Parent

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