It's Your Money: Achieving Financial Well Being [Spiral-bound]

Karen McCall (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 1, 2000

Bargain Books are non-returnable.

For those whose idea of smart money management is a half-filled piggy bank with no visible hammer damage, It's Your Money is the perfect guide to building a sound financial future. With simple strategies and plenty of space for tracking expenses and creating a monthly and annual spending plan, the goal of this cleverly designed guide and workbook is to help even the most financially fearful develop a better relationship with money. Author and financial counselor Karen McCall encourages readers to shed their self-defeating money behaviors and establish for themselves a new (and brighter) financial future. Whether evaluating finances before retirement or making a first contribution to a 401(k), every step of the process is made easier with this accessible workbook. It's Your Money is here to show you the money.

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Karen McCall is an internationally recognized counselor, speaker, and educator. She has helped pioneer the emerging field of financial counseling. Author of the Financial Recovery Workbook, she has maintained a private practice in the San Francisco Bay Area for the past thirteen years.

Product Details

• Spiral-bound: 200 pages
• Publisher: Chronicle Books (September 1, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0811825035
• ISBN-13: 978-0811825030
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 7.8 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,083,076 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Karen McCall, founder of the Financial Recovery(sm) Institute, has revolutionized the financial counseling industry with her highly acclaimed Financial Recovery process -- a compassionate, comprehensive system that liberates people from the core beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors that keep them stuck in a self-defeating relationship with money. This highly acclaimed system, which was developed by Karen after she struggled for years to heal her own crippling relationship with money, has saved thousands of people from the nightmare of financial ruin and given them the insight, understanding and tools they need to sustain financial stability for the rest of their lives.

Today Karen runs and owns the Financial Recovery Institute, which she founded in 1988. The Institute trains mental health care professionals and entrepreneurs in how to use the counseling processes and practical tools of Financial Recovery to help people transform their relationship with money and create life-long financial well-being. Successful graduates are certified Financial Recovery counselors. A nationally recognized speaker and financial expert, Karen is often quoted in publications such as Entrepreneur, Money Magazine, Kiplinger's Personal Finance, Bankrate.com, Bottom Line, Women's Day, Working Mother, and USA Weekend. In addition to her most recent book, Financial Recovery: Healing Your Life by Exploring Your Relationship with Money (New World Library), she is the author of It's Your Money: Achieving Financial Well-Being and is creator of several MoneyMinder® products. Karen lives in Petaluma, CA, where she spends her limited spare time gardening and spoiling her grandchildren.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

19 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Worth the work, December 12, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: It's Your Money: Achieving Financial Well Being (Spiral-bound)

I have read more than a few financial planning books that promise to make sense of the mess that I have gotten myself in, but "It's Your Money" was the first to deliver on the promise. Instead of confusing you with pages and pages of mutual funds, insurance tips, tax breaks or rules, Karen McCall takes you through her unique step-by-step program. You answer questions that really make you examine why, how, and what you spend and how to make sense of it. By learning your personal spending and saving behaviors, the program is more personal to you and your situation. It takes work on your part, but the writing and self-examination is more than worth it. I HIGHLY RECOMMEND IT IF YOU FEEL FINANCIALLY OUT OF CONTROL.

18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Money slips away through your fingers? Here's the cure!, January 15, 2001

By 

Rocco (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: It's Your Money: Achieving Financial Well Being (Spiral-bound)

As I started reading this strange spiral-back, "my own diary" format, book I found out , once again, that no script shall be judged by it's cover. Yes, this book is a well done, step by step, answer and help to those people who are not naturally gifted with the capacity of keeping in mind how much money they have, how they want to spend it, and most of all responding to the question "hey, what happened to my last months earnings, where the hell did they end up?". Simple tables, simple talk, no big words, the author breaks up the main concepts to what to do to keep track of your money and of your condition. You will finally understand the techinques for "holding on to your money till the moment you can do something really useful with it".

Leave the book alone if you're an economist, it's not for you, but buy the book if each time you look at your bank account you have a heart attack.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great even if you're not in debt, August 4, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: It's Your Money: Achieving Financial Well Being (Spiral-bound)

As others have implied, this book was focused more on people with problems with debt, but as a chronic saver (hey, I picked this book up at the library!), it helped me, too. I now have invested my money in diverse things instead of keeping it all in a savings account that had comparatively low returns. The workbook format worked well to demystify the issue of money and helped me to build a more complex, informed, and calm approach to money issues (I even read the business section every day -- it's no biggie, just a regular part of my life I take at my pace). In fact, her workbook is so good I've copied the basic questions/format to make my own workbooks on entirely different topics, and to good result! So this book has changed my life beyond just money. If I had bought it, it still would have paid for itself many times over by now.