Incisive guide to transform your relationship towards money and finally start building real wealth
Start Thinking Rich: 21 Harsh Truths to Take You from Broke to Financial Freedom delivers an inspirational, tough-love, and step-by-step guide for readers to finally start building their own legacy of wealth no matter where they're starting from. Filled with proven money-making, saving, and investment strategies, this book helps readers take an honest look at their spending habits, unconscious biases about money, and self-sabotaging money behaviors in order to start living their best lives.
Heavyweight institutional finance executive Dr. Brad Klontz and self-made millionaire Adrian Brambila combine their expertise, grit, and firsthand knowledge to provide unparalleled and eye-opening perspective on topics including:
- Your ideal path to success as either an employee, entrepreneur, or “grinder”
- Trauma-based psychology that leads to a counterproductive “broke mindset”
- The value of education in sidestepping common financial pitfalls
- Steps to increase and diversify income, save what you make, and grow your money in your sleep
Start Thinking Rich: 21 Harsh Truths to Take You from Broke to Financial Freedom earns a well-deserved spot on the bookshelves of all ambitious individuals who are sick of tepid, uncontroversial, and ultimately ineffective financial advice, and want to cut through the noise to discover highly effective wealth-building moves that are proven to work.
Table of Contents
Introduction xi
Chapter 1 Being Poor Sucks 1
Chapter 2 Only Poor People Think the System Is Rigged 11
Chapter 3 You Don’t Want to Become a Millionaire, You Just Want to Spend a Million Dollars 27
Chapter 4 Your Beliefs About Money Are Keeping You Poor 39
Chapter 5 Your Teachers Can’t Teach You How to Get Rich 53
Chapter 6 It’s Not Your Fault if You Were Born Poor, But It Is Your Fault if You Die Poor 65
Chapter 7 You Don’t Deserve More; You’re Getting Paid What You’re Worth 77
Chapter 8 Only Liars Say They Love Their Jobs 89
Chapter 9 Lottery Tickets Are for Lazy People 99
Chapter 10 Get Rid of Your Poor Friends If You Want to Get Rich 109
Chapter 11 Poor People Buy Stuff; Rich People Own Time 121
Chapter 12 Only Broke and Insecure People Flex Luxury Brands 131
Chapter 13 If You Want to Get Rich, Go to College, Get Married, and Buy a House (or Not) 143
Chapter 14 Retirement Is for Dead People 163
Chapter 15 Only Poor People Are Afraid to Ask for Help 173
Chapter 16 Your Political Party Doesn’t Give a Shit About You 185
Chapter 17 Complaining Is for Losers 197
Chapter 18 Get a Roommate, Get on the Bus, Get Sober, Get Bald, And Get a Side Hustle Or Shut Up About Being Broke 215
Chapter 19 People Who Binge Netflix Without A Side Hustle Will Be Broke Forever 229
Chapter 20 You’re Not Allowed to Use Your Credit Card if You Don’t Pay It off Each Month 239
Chapter 21 You’ll Be Poor Forever if You Don’t Start Thinking Rich 249
About the Authors 257
Acknowledgments 261
Appendix 263
References 269
Index 279
