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Serious Money - How To Make It And Enjoy It
Barrie Pearson, Realization 2005
PART ONE
Achieve the wealth and success you dream about 21
1. Take stock, and set your financial goals 23
Take stock of your financial situation 24
Prioritize and address your financial problems 29
Review and reorganize your financial
assets and liabilities 29
Consider the income and wealth you want to
be much happier 32
Decide your commitment and sacrifice 33
Set your income and capital goals 33
Create your personal 10 year vision for wealth
and happiness 35
Commit to a month by month action plan 38
Key point summary 40
2. Vital touchstones to create serious wealth 41
Get to really know yourself 42
Turn your dreams into conviction, belief and reality 43
Identify and lock onto the jugular vein of opportunity 43
Rehearse success daily 44
Develop your self-esteem 45
Good luck is an attitude of mind 46
Exploit your talents 47
Regard disability as an unfair advantage 48
Assess the upside and downside of risks… always 49
Respect people and beware arrogance 52
Key point summary 53
3. Do yourself some valuable favours 55
Meet and learn from the rich and influential 56
Network seriously 57
Become image conscious and invest
in your appearance 59
Develop your poise and charisma 60
Improve your skills and qualifications 62
Find a rich life partner (if you are single) 63
Create a will 64
Commit to a personal action plan 64
Key point summary 66
4. Become richer with spare time opportunities 67
Proven opportunities 68
Investment opportunities 74
Risky opportunities 84
Key point summary 87
5. Get to the top… or higher than you thought possible 89
Be unswervingly honest, loyal and reliable 90
Become a resultaholic not a workaholic 92
Maximize your enjoyment and minimize stress 93
Benefit from a mentor and coach 94
Make yourself redundant or reinvent your role 95
Think, talk and act strategically 96
Be at IT’s leading edge 99
Sharpen your decision-making skills 99
Demonstrate leadership 101
Improve your financial know-how 103
Invest in a world class MBA 104
Really learn a second language 105
Market yourself, internally and externally 106
Ask for shares or share options 108
Key point summary 109
6. Become self-employed or start your own business 111
Procrastination is your worst enemy 112
Opportunities are staring you in the face 113
Mundane chores are a route to success 114
Test your idea in your spare time 115
Personal traits for success 116
Skills needed for success 118
Research your market and your competitors 122
Write a convincing business plan to raise finance 123
Cash flow is life or death 124
Become a franchisee 125
Buy an established business 126
Decide when to cash in your chips 127
Key point summary 129
7. Pursue a management buy-out (MBO)
or buy-in (MBI) 131
A committed top management team 132
A suitable business 133
A carefully handled request for an MBO 135
Appoint an experienced corporate finance adviser 136
Write a convincing business plan 138
Select a compatible private equity house or investor 140
Set a realistic timetable 141
Appoint expert lawyers and tax advisers 143
Satisfactory due diligence 144
Professional fees involved 144
Particular requirements of MBI’s 146
PART TWO
Become truly happier as well 151
8. Manage your health 153
Weight 154
Diet 156
Exercise 158
Sleep 160
Stress management 161
Relaxation techniques 162
Create work-free periods 163
Leisure and holidays 163
Alcohol 164
Smoking 166
Drugs 167
Gambling 167
Positive mental attitudes 168
Consider investing money in your health 169
Personal action plan 170
9. Invest time in family and friends 173
Your partner or spouse 174
Your parents 176
Your children 177
Your other relatives 179
Your friends and acquaintances 179
Coping with separation and divorce 180
Coping with bereavement and terminal illness 183
Finding a partner 184
Gifts that count 185
Family and friends action plan 186
10. Reinvention not retirement 189
Dismiss any thought of retirement, think reinvention 190
Develop ideas and interests well ahead 191
Ease down to part-time work 192
Start a part-time business or self-employment 193
Consider charity work 193
Build mental stimulus and social contact in your life 194
Learn for the hell of it 195
Keep abreast of technology 195
Exercise sensibly 196
Avoid a golden oldie ghetto lifestyle 197
Personal action plan 197
11. Enjoy your wealth 199
Don’t put all your eggs in one basket 200
Don’t attempt to walk on water 201
Use an expert wealth manager or do-it-yourself 202
Give your children and grandchildren
the ultimate gift 203
Tax effective giving 204
Reward your own achievement 205
Maintain a value for money attitude 205
Be generous but avoid hangers-on 206
Key point summary 207
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