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Cash in a Flash: Real Money in No Time

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Cash in a Flash combines mind training with financial planning. The result is an interesting audiobook that helps you overcome mental obstacles to achieving financial success. The first part of the book helps listeners identify negative, mental "voices". Through clever exercises that work well in the audio format, listeners practice manipulating their mental voice . I believe the audiobook version is actually better than print for many of these exercises. Author and narrator Mark Hansen (of Chicken Soup for the Soul fame) is an experienced cheerleader and guide. His enthusiasm will encourage people most in need of mind conditioning. His vocal performance is both animated and supportive, a perfect match for his role as coach.

I was impressed that this book first addresses mental obstacles to financial success. I believe those new to mind training will find the book's approach welcoming and easy to understand and access. The authors then tackle how to accumulate wealth using their knowledge and experience. This is a complete audiobook package for anyone looking to improve their financial situation. Anyone can follow this approach with success.

When you mix Chicken Soup for the Soul and Multiple Streams of Income, you get Cash in a Flash.

Hansen and Allen have written 2 books for you to enjoy. If you're the linear-learning type of person, you'll read the left-hand pages; if you're the picture person, you'll read the right-hand pages.

Here is how you can get cash in a flash - according to these authors:

#1 Wow Now - Invision yourself getting a lot of money.
#2 Inner Winner - Convince yourself you can get a lot of money.
#3 Dream Team - Gather with people who can talk you into convincing yourself to get a lot of money.

That is the first part (and majority) of the book; a lot of mental and psychological practices to rid your imagination of all the negative "voices" in your head. They tell you to make your negative voice sound like Mickey Mouse and turn down his volume whenever he speaks to you.

The last 3 chapters deal with the ideas which include: real estate, writing a book, and sales.

After reading this book I had some ideas of what I could do. However I don't think I could ask people to pay me $2,000 to write a chapter in a book I was writing. (But that's my negative Mickey Mouse voice talking)

When all is said and done, this is not the kind of how-to book people are looking for.

Robert G. Allen and Mark Victor Hansen have motivated and inspired millions of people all over the world, and I am just one of them. This book is for anyone who is going through some change or transformation in their business career or their life.

It is about who you will become as you read it, so it would be a good idea to have a large notebook at hand to express all the creativity and intelligence that is sure to begin flowing from YOU. The first page I turned to was a cartoon of a father and son in the kitchen. The son says to the father, "You followed the recipe but it's missing the secret ingredient: Mom."

For me that cartoon expresses the change that is taking place in business today. We are moving into a different way of doing business. We are moving to a higher awareness, soul-based business world where it is a requirement for us to begin to tap into the full range of our divine masculine and feminine energy to be successful.

Cash In A Flash combines practical business information with the direct personal experience that each of us has access to a well stocked kitchen, and the possibility of cooking up financial freedom even in the midst of a diverse and ever-changing economy.

Hansen and Allen have done it again. They have laid out a blueprint that anyone can follow to transform their life from scarcity to a life full of abundance. What people have to understand about creating wealth is that it is first a mindset. Your mindest is the foundation to receiving cash in a flash and for building long term wealth. So, the authors provide practical strategies to help you listen to your 'Inner Winner' instead of your 'Inner Whiner' and that's critical because you are going to have to become an entirely different person in order to change your current financial picture. In other words, you have to change the causes if you truly want to see different effects. And the cause is your thoughts.

Hansen and Allen talk about one of the most effective ways to change your thought patterns which is asking empowering questions. I am a BIG fan of asking bigger and better questions and taking actions as a result. If you ask yourself questions like,

1) Why is receiving $100,000 from my business in 12 months so easy for me now?

OR

2) Why is losing twenty pounds by December 30th so health and so easy for me now?

on a regular basis, your brain will focus on providing you with answers to those questions. Then it's up to you to take action from those nudges from your inner voice.

Next, they get into specific strategies and tactics you can use to generate cash. They explain that some of your best ideas for generating cash will come from the problems and frustrations you are currently experiencing. This point was driven home in the second book. The book is two books in one, a how to book and a novel.

One of my favorite quotes from the book was,

'How you look at a problem is more important than the problem itself."

So you can turn trash into cash, problems into profit if you are willing to look for something good. Problems are always gifts if we develop the courage to see them that way.

John Hinds
Author of "What's In Your Water?" available on amazon

I've read a lot of Mark Victor Hansons stuff and struggle at times. He's obviously successful so how can you argue with his advice. This one isnt that much different than One Minute Millionaire when you get down to it. They have put two books in one. The right page is a novel and the left a how to book. I dont like that format but I guess they do. I had a hard time getting started, the first part of the how to book was a little trivial but I gutted it out and when you get to the 'cash in the flash' part and identifying your skills, achievements yadayada, they had some solid questions and tests that were quite helpful in guiding a person to find out where they might have something in their past that can be converted to well, cash in a flash. Its worth the discounted price I see here on Amazon.

Interesting and easy to read. The book is actually two books in one. On one side of the book is the nuts and bolts on the other side is a "story" that the reader can relate to. You can skip to the end to get to what you really need to know. The suggestions to get "cash in a flash" are not really new ideas and can be doable but if you really need to pay the bills you might want to look at those want ads.

Very simplistic. (Note I bought the audio, so I'm not sure if the book is different.) I know too many people who have followed similar paths and ended up in serious trouble. Find a great a idea and become a millionaire overnight. If only it were that simple. 3/4 of the book is told in a fairy tale fashion about the "Broad Squad". Women who come together under adversity form a mastermind group and are megamillionaires in a few months--in fact within a year they are running foundations and saving the planet.
This is a fairy tale. The end.

I bought this book the day it came out and had it read in 2 days. I couldn't put it down. I have done a lot of work with positive growth and this book touches on some of the things I have done. I loved the fact that it had the two stories in one. The fictional side and the side with the principles of the teachings. I felt connected with the women in the story as if I actually knew them :)

I recommend this book to everyone! Especially if you have ever done any work with PSI Seminars.

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The book comes in two sections--the first, read by the authors, mostly discusses how to have a positive attitude, and identifies the negative voice that exists in all of us. It also includes a brief section on HOW to make money. The second half is a fictional story used to illustrate the principles in the book.

I know we all strive to be optimists--but optimist or not, I strive to see things as they truly are--and sometimes, truth comes through that negative voice. I read books like "Cash in a Flash" as a source of inspiration, although the hype bothers me.

I found the section on identifying the negative voice instructive. But the fictional story about Michelle and her friends in the second half was disappointing (for a good example of using a fictional story to teach principles, read the excellent book, "Leadership and Self-Deception" by The Arbinger Institute). Michelle's story, at first glance, feels like a true story--the story of an amazing success (i.e. a woman earning $1,000,000 in 90 days to gain custody of her kids). But it's not. It's fictional. The numbers are arbitrary. Later in the story, fictional character Francie manages to make $11,000 in three days selling an e-book. Later, fictional character Lei Kim designs the "E-Broom," a broom with a looped handle, which then takes 1% of the U.S. broom market. Such a broom has not yet been taken to market. If it in reality would have been such a raging success, the authors would have designed and marketed the broom (or its patent) themselves, or if they already have, it was a flop in the market place. This is not inspirational. Inspiration comes from TRUE stories. Would "Chicken Soup for the Soul" have been so successful if the stories had been made up? No--because it wouldn't have inspired anybody.

Since there are so many better books out there, read those other ones first. Start with Napoleon Hill's "Think and Grow Rich" (virtually every other business-related self-help book is a knock-off of this original), just one of Robert Kiyosaki's "Rich Dad" books, Stephen Covey's "Seven Habits," and for the more-serious entrepreneur, Jim Collin's "Built to Last" and "Good to Great."

I bought this book Jan. 4, 2011. Though it has been out since 2009, I am now living and working in Asia and the book (paper back edition, likely edition 2) just hit the bookstores here.

The book lays down foundations of successful financial thinking (how to think about wealth creation and how to stay motivated as you pursue your wealth creating goals). In some ways it reminded me of T. Harv Eker's "Secrets of the Millionaire Mind" which looks at our thinking/programing regarding money and wealth.

Then, "Cash in a Flash" delves into detailed, pratical and enlightening discussions and exercises about specific money making ideas. It's obvious they are well read in finance, self-help, entrepreneurship etc. and it is a worthy read for these reasons. If you have ever read Napoleon Hill's classic "Think and Grow Rich", then "Cash in a Flash" is a good second book to read. However, the links listed throughout the book are already obsolete.

For example on page 280 while talking about real estate it gives a link to access 'nothing down techniques.' The link has been removed. On page 284 they discuss making money online and give a link 'online profits.' That site too is now down. This is the case throughout the entire book.

So, they should spend the small amount it takes to keep these external inks open or stop selling the book and update it for international readers. For these reasons I give it a 3-star rating instead of 4 or even 5-stars.