{"product_id":"2940152583397","title":"Making Your Dreams a Reality: Taking The Mystery Out of Finanical Planning Not the Magic - One Quote at a Time!","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis is not your ordinary book about financial planning.\u003cbr\u003eAnd that’s because Betty-Anne is not your ordinary\u003cbr\u003efinancial planner.\u003cbr\u003eAft er all, before she was a financial planner she was\u003cbr\u003ea teacher and a social worker. Oh, and she also worked\u003cbr\u003ein a prison. And you thought financial planners were\u003cbr\u003eboring!\u003cbr\u003eI first met Betty-Anne at Kingston Writersfest. She\u003cbr\u003ewas attending the humour-writing workshop I was giving\u003cbr\u003eand came up afterward to tell me that she wanted to\u003cbr\u003ewrite a personal finance book that was interesting, relevant,\u003cbr\u003eand, above all, fun! She asked me what I thought,\u003cbr\u003eand I told her it sounded like a great idea—little did I\u003cbr\u003eknow that I would be helping her write that very book!\u003cbr\u003eTh at book, Making Your Dreams a Reality: A Stress-\u003cbr\u003eFree Guide to Take the Mystery out of Financial Planning,\u003cbr\u003ebut Not the Magic!, is coming out soon, by the way—a\u003cbr\u003esequel, if you will, to the book you have in your hands\u003cbr\u003eright now.\u003cbr\u003eBut back to the book at hand.\u003cbr\u003eYou are in for a treat. Why? Because soon you will\u003cbr\u003ebe rid of the uneasy feeling you get when you think\u003cbr\u003eabout your personal finances.\u003cbr\u003eI know the feeling, and it comes from fear—from\u003cbr\u003ebad habits formed in childhood, from the endless\u003cbr\u003estream of incomprehensible financial acronyms that\u003cbr\u003ebombard you, from that all-pervasive message you get\u003cbr\u003efrom newspapers, finance shows, and the media, telling\u003cbr\u003eyou that if you don’t get your finances in order—right\u003cbr\u003enow!—you’ll spend your golden years in a cardboard\u003cbr\u003ebox under a bridge fighting rats for scraps of garbage.\u003cbr\u003eIt’s no wonder so many people put off financial\u003cbr\u003eplanning. After all, what do we do when we’re scared?\u003cbr\u003eScurry into a corner and hide or spend money!\u003cbr\u003eHide no more! Come out and look around. See,\u003cbr\u003ethings aren’t so bad after all!\u003cbr\u003eThis book doesn’t tell you what to do. Instead it asks\u003cbr\u003ewhat you would like to do. It is an invitation, not an order.\u003cbr\u003eBreathe a little, take your time, and discover how to\u003cbr\u003emake money work in your life and how to make your\u003cbr\u003edreams a reality, one quote at a time.\u003cbr\u003eTrevor Strong\u003cbr\u003eAuthor, Songwriter, Humorist\u003cbr\u003eKingston, Ontario\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Betty-Anne Howard","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47081229353200,"sku":"2940152583397","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940152583397_p0.jpg?v=1764024506","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940152583397","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}