Suze Orman's Financial Guidebook: Put the 9 Steps to Work [Paperback]

Suze Orman (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 26, 2002

A One-on-One Financial Planning Session with Suze Orman.

With her national bestseller The 9 Steps to Financial Freedom, Suze Orman launched a personal finance revolution—transforming the concept of money for the millions of people across the world who have embraced her message of understanding the psychology involved in our relationship with money. Now, with Suze Orman’s Financial Guidebook, you have all the tools you need to put the 9 steps to work for you.

Reading Suze Orman’s Financial Guidebook is like having a one-on-one financial planning session with Suze herself. Full of self-tests, thought-provoking questions, and Suze’s own brand of personal finance advice, it will encourage everyone, no matter what their income, to rethink their approach to money. Included in this informative guidebook are:

* The “Money Messages” Exercise: A series of insightful questions about your childhood interaction with money, as well as your parents’ approach to finances
* The “How Much Is Going Out” Exercise: An in-depth analysis of all your monthly expenses, providing a realistic picture of just how much money you have to work with
* The Long-Term-Care Worksheet: A checklist of questions you should be sure to ask if you are considering purchasing long-term-care insurance
* The Financial Advisor Information Sheet: An outline of key questions that every financial advisor should ask you upon your initial meeting
* The Generosity and Cheapskate Quizzes: A revealing exercise that helps determine your attitude toward giving and spending money

Whether you have read all of Suze Orman’s bestselling books or you are just discovering her as the leading voice in personal finance, Suze Orman’s Financial Guidebook is an essential step in gaining control of your money—so your money doesn’t have control of you.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

A companion to the bestseller The 9 Steps to Financial Freedom, Suze Orman's Financial Guidebook distills the most important points in 9 Steps, providing work sheets and self-assessment tests for each step that allow readers to take full inventory of their spending habits and attitudes toward money. Through probing questions and quizzes, Orman helps readers explore formative childhood experiences with money and understand how these influence their current financial anxieties. She also gives a crash course in wills, retirement plans and mutual funds, as well as guidance for getting out of debt.

Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.

About the Author

SUZE ORMAN is a Certified Financial Planner® professional and the #1 New York Times bestselling author of personal finance books, including The Road to Wealth, The Courage to Be Rich, and The 9 Steps to Financial Freedom, which was on the New York Times bestseller list in both its hardcover and trade paperback editions and was also a USA Today, Wall Street Journal, and BusinessWeek bestseller.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 192 pages
• Publisher: Three Rivers Press; 1 edition (February 26, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0609808931
• ISBN-13: 978-0609808931
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.3 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #999,273 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Suze Orman has been called "a force in the world of personal finance" and a "one-woman financial advice powerhouse" by USA Today. A two-time Emmy Award-winning television host, #1 New York Times bestselling author, magazine and online columnist, writer/producer, and one of the top motivational speakers in the world today, Orman is undeniably America's most recognized expert on personal finance.

Orman has written seven consecutive New York Times bestsellers and has written, co-produced, and hosted six PBS specials based on her books. She is the host of the award-winning Suze Orman Show, which airs on CNBC and XM and Sirius radio, and a contributing editor to O: The Oprah Magazine.

Orman was twice named one of the "Time 100," Time magazine's list of the world's most influential people, and was the recipient of the National Equality Award from the Human Rights Campaign. In 2009 she received an honorary doctor of humane letters degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Orman, a Certified Financial Planner™ professional, directed the Suze Orman Financial Group from 1987 to 1997, served as Vice President--Investments for Prudential Bache Securities from 1983 to 1987, and was an account executive at Merrill Lynch from 1980 to 1983. Prior to that, she worked as a waitress at the Buttercup Bakery in Berkeley, California, from 1973 to 1980.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

84 of 84 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This is hands-on, October 29, 2002

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"discord972" (Tucson, AZ United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Suze Orman's Financial Guidebook: Put the 9 Steps to Work (Paperback)

Reading the Nine Steps To Financial Freedom is one thing, but using the workbook companion along with it makes implementing the steps much easier. For exaample, finding the root of your money issues that are based in childhood, with only the reading book, and without the workbook might be a bit difficult. Sure, there are example stories, but books like this were written for those of us who need a little hand holding when we're attempting to change our understanding of finances and how it all works.

I am not one to want extra books around that I don't love and use, and though I was lucky and found my own copy of this book used, and in pristine condition, had I known it existed before then, I would have ordered it with the reading book, it's that helpful. If you can follow directions, and be honest with yourself, with this book it would be very hard not to implement the Nine Steps in your life.

36 of 38 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fabulous!, September 27, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Suze Orman's Financial Guidebook: Put the 9 Steps to Work (Paperback)

As a self proclaimed "artsy, spiritual, mushy" type, I absolutely hate left brained detail oriented personal budgets. However, my lack of attention to detail was reflected in my personal financial situation. This booked helped me to look at the details of my finances through a psychological framework that included specific exercises to walk me through those details that I dread. It helped me to get very clear on my financial motivations, dreams and blocks. I loved it!

45 of 49 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Overcome previous disbeliefs, September 22, 2002

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Alix Dvorak (Clewiston, Fl) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Suze Orman's Financial Guidebook: Put the 9 Steps to Work (Paperback)

What this little book did for me was to take me back to when I formed my financial philosophy, eliminate negative false beliefs and form a better, more productive philosophy that actually works.