Motivate Your Money!

Home

Motivate Your Money! on Amazon.com for only $19.98

Or, on Kindle for only $9.99

If you’re looking for straightforward and easy to understand financial guidance, you’ve picked up the right book. Over the past two decades, as the world of personal financial planning has become more complicated than ever, Mac Gardner has consistently managed to synthesize the most complex financial strategies into a coherent, easily understood message to his clients. This ability to relate to them and set realistic expectations for them is what has moved many of his clients to consider Mac an integral financial resource in their lives.

Mac believes that life is a collection of experiences and stories shared by those we encounter on our lifelong journey. He has spent his career collecting and sharing stories about finance and personal financial planning—stories covering retail banking, trust administration, commercial lending, investment management, private banking, and comprehensive wealth management.

Mac has hosted financial planning seminars across the country, representing some of the nation’s largest financial services firms. Over his career he has interacted with thousands of financial advisors and clients about the importance of financial planning and practicing healthy financial habits. His journey across the various lines of finance has given him the unique ability to help his clients face the continuously complex challenges of personal financial planning.

This book serves as a compilation of some of Mac’s most influential interactions and thought-provoking experiences. His professional journey over the last two decades has been emotional, rewarding, and fulfilling. The journey continues…

About Mac

About Mac v1

Motivate Your Money! Seminar

5 Steps to Financial Success

5 Point Wealth Management Plan

Investment Management Matrix

Retirement Planning

Money Tools

Family-finances-future

Family – Finances – Future [pg 27]

Understanding how Family, Finances, and Future work together is a critical first step in learning how to motivate your money.

5-Steps

5 Steps to Financial Success [pg 48]

There isn’t one key to financial success; there are actually 5. The “5 Steps to Financial Success” can serve as the path on your financial journey through life.

5-point-pentagon

5 Point Wealth Management Plan [pg 12]

Financial planning is complex. Where do you start? Investments, Insurance, Taxes, Retirement, Estate? Managing your “5 Point Wealth Management Plan” will allow you to proactively set financial goals.

needs-Pyramid

Financial Needs Pyramid [pg 128]

Segmenting Needs, Wants, and Wishes in life can help to prioritize a personal financial plan. This structure will affect your budget as you move to and through retirement.

Financial-Lifecycle

Financial Life Cycle [pg 74]

Your financial plan should address the opportunities and pitfalls in your respective stage of life. Having a plan for all 4 stages of the financial lifecycle will play a critical role in achieving financial success.

financial-asset-questions

Financial Impact Questions [pg 33]

Questions about how your personal finances should work are just as important as the answers. Asking the right questions will help you better understand how your money works and how to set a financial plan.

Risk-Reward

Risk / Reward Graph [pg 59]

Every investment involves a certain level of risk and reward. This simple graph can serve as a general guide to motivate your investment management plan.

Retirement-Challenges

5 Retirement Challenges [pg 119]

Retirement distribution planning is far more complex than retirement accumulation planning. The “5 Retirement Challenges” must be addressed together to achieve a successful retirement income plan.

3-R-graphic

Relatable – Retainable – Repeatable [pg 157]

Every successful financial strategy is based on its ability to be Relatable, Retainable and Repeatable. If the strategy passes these tests, it has a higher probability of impacting a financial plan and impacting your financial future.

Money Links

Let’s Make a Plan

CFP Board

Financial Planning Association

Foundation for Financial Planning

National Association of Insurers and Financial Advisors

LIFE Foundation

U.S. Small Business Administration

U.S. Department of Labor

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

Business USA

Social Security Administration

IRS Retirement Plan Site

Insured Retirement Institute

AARP

Retire on Your Own Terms

American Institute of CPAs

The American College of Trust and Estate Counsel

Women’s Institute for a Secure Retirement

Reviews

A. Vasquez:

“I think this is a great book that breaks down what are usually boring topics into an engaging read. It’s easy to tell that Mac knows and understands these issues. Someone got this for me as a gift and I have marked many pages and covered it in highlights. The kind of information that Suze Orman and Dave Ramsey can’t convey. Look forward to future publications by this author.”

M. McInerny:

“The author takes ‘the elephant in the room’ and makes it an open discussion. A lot of people are afraid to tackle their financial lives until it is too late. The author engages the reader to want to ‘motivate’ their money and get to the next chapter. His straight forward, easy to understand strategies and explanations make this a MUST READ for every age. One is never to young to understand his or her money.”

D. Graham:

“I love how the author brings the complex and controversial world of money matters into a real life perspective that regular people can understand!”

S. Arnoux:

“This is something that most don’t discuss either in school or at home…read it and become educated in your finances and the finances of your children!”