Financial Intelligence: How to Make Smart, Values-Based Decisions with Your Money and Your Life

Investing and Financial decisions are hard to perfect. One of the main reasons why we make poor financial decisions is because we don't have a grip on our emotions. Whenever negative financial externalities occur: Stock Market Crash or Job Loss, typically we are not in the most optimal state of mind when we make some of the most important financial decisions. This book helps us evaluate our state of mind and heart to make sure that we are making intellectual financial decisions and not emotional financial decisions. And it trains us to make those optimal decisions by first helping us discover who we and and what we want to accomplish. The largest take away for me was being able to make "Valued" based financial decisions. From now on I will first ask myself before making any financial based decision: Does this decision help or hurt my values? For example: My values are God, Family, My Significant Other, Charity, and Wisdom: I will always ask myself if my financial decisions positively or negatively help these values.

Basic focus of of this book is to awaken one to the reality that we part with a buck when we see real return, yet often kid ourselves about that fact.You can't come away from this read without forever understanding that we buy our values. We spend our money based on more then, say, what a product returns, but on how we feel about the way it fits among society.The author gently wakes up readers to realities that are useful to the rest of one's entire life.Claudia Strasbaugh

They looked new and good, I think my client is enjoying them now theat He doesn't complain about anything

4 R's works! Practicing this method of critical thinking is helping me catch and correct my self-talk and improve my EQ. A good read, thanks Doug!

I love this book! and got it as gifts for a lot of my friends.

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A very good book very focused on developing a smart financial culture. Very intuitive, detailed in its description and very good to comment and share it with family and friends.

Financial Intelligence is a remarkably thought-provoking read! The theories, methods, research, and knowledge shared throughout the book are applicable in so many ways in everyday life. While financial concepts are not always easy to understand and even more difficult to apply, the authors of this book do an excellent job of articulating how these somewhat confusing concepts can be applied in professional and personal relationships alike. I especially appreciated chapters 5, 9, and 10! Thank you to Doug Lennick, Kathleen Jordan, and all of the others who contributed to the content of this incredible book.