Discover the Wealth Within You: A Financial Plan For Creating a Rich and Fulfilling Life

by Ric Edelman

Book Overview

Most people say they want money so they can buy a home, send children to college...and retire comfortably. Those are fine goals. But, as Ric Edelman points out in this book, there is -- or rather,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0060008334
• ISBN13: 9780060008338
• Release Date: April 2003
• Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 1.0" x 6.1"

Customer Reviews

Clear, understandable and comphrehensive

Most financial books are boring at best and many times written by unqualified people. This new book by Ric Edelmen is like a fireside chat with a warm and funny advisor. Edelmen's writing style is clear and understandable and the material is comphrehensive and fresh.In Discover The Wealth Within You, Ric Edelmen willt ake you on a journey to self discovery. Edelmen shows you how to choose fun, enriching and rewarding goals and gives you a simple straightforward plan to achieve them.You'll discover that creating wealth isn't all that difficult, once you set the right goals. According to Ric Edelmen, all you need to do is decide what you want to do with your money. With enticing personal goals in place, you'll motivate, excite and suatain yourself in your quest for wealth.After using Ric's worksheets to help you set goals properly, you'll embark on a detailed exploration of personal investing. You'll discover Ric's formula for creating a plan to achieve your goals, build your financial future and finance your dreams--all through his unique, time tested investing strategies.By following Ric's plans and guidelines, you can achieve a healthy, balanced and richly rewarding life. Anyone can do it, says Ric, with the tools and techniques he provides.Informative and entertaining, Discover The Wealth Within You is a must read in everyone's personal financial planning and investment libraries.

Awesome and Inspiring

What a pleasure it is to read someone like Edelman who is not only uniquely qualified to write on the subject of money but also writes in such a breezely easy to read style.I just picked up this book after reading "What You Need to Do Now" and "Ordinary People, Extraordinary Wealth" by Edelman. The previous books helped me more than anything to overcome the bad advice I got from reading other financial books.Besides Ric's books, I also recommend "The Road to Wealth" and "The Laws of Money" by Suze Orman. I believe that Ric and Suze are the two best financial authors out there right now. Both are CFP's and Ric's firm is ranked among the top 5 firms in the country by Bloomberg. Obviously Edelman would not have this many clients if he didn't know what he was doing now would he?

Put More Fun In Your Life

Edelman's new book, "Discover the Wealth Within You," tries to get the reader to move beyond typical goals such as funding retirement, buying a home, and sending a child to college. I went through several of his exercises, and am now planning two adventures that I had previously only dreamed about. He also tries to get people to see Morningstar as a much more valuable resource than just using their star rating system to select mutual funds. The book is certainly worth the money for anyone who needs some solid suggestions on how to put more fun in their life.

Loved him on Oprah, and love his new book!

This guy really has a way of taking into account the human elements of financial planning and explaining all that difficult to understand money stuff like no one else -- if you've ever read any of his other books you're already nodding your head in agreement. This book goes past understanding the basics of how things work (The Truth About Money); and seeing how other people are getting rich (Ordinary People, Extraordinary Wealth); into how YOU can become wealthy. Discover the Wealth Within You is packed full of all the knowledge you would need to overcome struggling with your finances and motivate you toward a successful plan for your life, health and wealth. This is by far the most $valueable$ book than any of his previous titles. If you're a math genius, you might find this too basic, but for the rest of us (99.9% of the population), this book is awesome and inspiring. Thanks Ric!p.s. Maybe this book should be in the spirituality section instead of the fincance section of the book store

Solid Advice From a Solid Guy

I'm tired of boring books with columns of statistics, or the unsubstantiated ravings of "feel good" advisors. I bought this book because I enjoyed Edelman's "Financial Security in Troubled Times" and I was not disappointed. It is solid advice, and very well written. Yes, the author is humorous and entertaining, but who really wants to read 300 pages without any effort to smile? The cartoons that spice up the statistics are well chosen, and they reinforce the points. If you are looking for a textbook with which to put college students to sleep, look elsewhere. If you want to better understand how to set your goals, achieve them, and feel that you are in control of the financial products and the practices, then buy this book. But don't expect to recoup part of your cost by re-selling the used volume - you will want to keep this book, use and re-use it. And if you have a brother-in-law that needs a little help, buying him a copy will be cheaper than making a loan.