One Year to an Organized Financial Life: From Your Bills to Your Bank Account, Your Home to Your Retirement, the Week-by-Week Guide to Achieving Financial Peace of Mind

From sticking to a budget to getting out of debt, curbing spending to maximizing retirement savings, One Year to an Organized Financial Life makes it possible for anyone to live more richly on less.. One Year to an Organized Financial Life is a unique week-by-week plan to make saving money simple, automatic, and stress-free. Using Leeds's "Zen organizing" approach, which addresses the underlying causes of chaos and replaces them with routines, they now show readers the steps to improving finances within a manageable timeframe. For decades, professional organizer Regina Leeds and financial advisor Russell Wild have helped thousands of clients get their lives in order. Do you constantly feel anxious about money? Have unopened credit card statements piled up on your countertop? Are you forever losing receipts for items you meant to return? In an economic downturn taking charge of your financial well-being is more crucial than ever

I liked the first 4 chapters - it tell you to Calvin. C I had high expectations of this book.Written by 'Zen Organizer', I have expected a different type of financial guide book, the one that is different in its concepts & messages.I liked the first 4 chapters - it tell you to carry a smaller wallet, carry cash, and put all the bills in order, the same side - because you need to be organized in order to fill powerful & able. I liked this fresh approach the author brings - she sure is . Good concept, but not a thorough guide Casey I am a few months into this book and I have to say that I am slightly disappointed. I started off with high hopes. The book had some good tips in the introduction and the author sounded powered up about getting my financial life in shape and organized. I had a few gripes early on, but kept pushing through thinking that it would get better as it went, but it hasn't. I have found the book to be a mixture of irrelevance and surface-. "Very well said" according to John T. Seems like basic information at the first glance, but I got a real picture of my finances after taking her advice and implementing her system. A year later, after reading several other financial books, I still rely on the techniques in this book for the organization of my information and documents. Some chapters and sections are boring and unnecessary, but overall this book was well my time and money.

From Publishers Weekly Leeds (One Year to an Organized Life), a professional organizer, and Wild, a financial adviser, apply Leeds's Zen Organizing philosophy to replace financial mayhem with method through digestible weekly steps over the course of one year. . (Jan.)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. By devoting the entire month of November to getting ready for end-of-year holidays, the authors drive home how planning ahead can alleviate the pain of unforeseen expenses. January is time to take control, and the authors provide step-by-step instructions on preparing for tax season and retooling spending habits while laying the groundwork for protecting long-term assets. Savings and retirement vehicles are discussed at an extremely macro level&mda