Take Control of Your Money

You have needs and wants. But the way in which you manage your time and money depends on your stage in life (single, married, divorced, working, retired, etc.) together with your value system. It is up to you to take a long look at yourself and decide if you want to control your lifestyle or not. If you do a then read this book. Reading Take Control of Your Money can help you to: 1. Identify your values and needs 2. Make budgeting work for you 3. Take the stress out of trying to get ahead 4. Expand your lifestyle effectively 5. Provide the freedom to plan your future 6. Draw a clearer picture of your retirement Fictitious characters--that represent a cross section of society--are introduced to illustrate their needs and wants during each stage of this book. You might see yourself in one of these personal categories and be able to adapt their solutions to your own situation. When author, Donald J. Davison, retired from finance and banking, he went through the usual headaches of trying to turn his own life around after a divorce and being retired long before he had planned. This change of life led him through being a real estate agent, to conducting seminars and counseling government employees on financial planning for retirement and eventually to providing financial counseling to 3,500 insolvent families. These experiences taught him a lot about himself as a single parent, a senior and as a survivor. Helping others became a natural extension. You owe it to yourself to learn from his experiences and... Take Control of Your Money "e;Success starts with having the opportunity to plan for the rest of your life."e;