The Path to Financial Peace

By Mckala Mcleod and Dean WIlliams

Wow! The Path to Financial Peace is a treasure chest full of wisdom. This book is a dream come true and a breath of fresh air for anyone who desires to acquire wealth. The authors have managed to creatively package the best financial success principals throughout time and pack it all in one book. Sprinkled with humour and exciting practical action points, this is one of the best financial tools I have come across. It doesn’t do justice to simply call this a book. It’s more of a manual and home study course to develop the millionaire mind-set. Junior Ogunyemi Author of How to be a student Entrepreneur "Concise, practical, to the point. If you are ready to take control of your finances, this book is a great place to start." Kolarele Sonaike President 100 Black Men of London

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu Publishing Services
• Release date: Sep 25, 2015
• ISBN: 9781483436302

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CONTENTS

Part One

Refining You

1. Personal Responsibility

2. Confidence

3. The Differences Between Wealth And Riches

4. Your Habits

5. Being Broke And Being Poor: Are They The Same Thing?

Part Two

Eight Principles For Financial Peace

Principle 1:   Pay Yourself First (Save 10%)

Principle 2:   Spend Less Than You Earn And Set Financial Goals

Principle 3:   Learn The Basics Of Asset Management

Principle 4:   Make Your Money Grow With Compound Interest

Principle 5:   Create Three Income Streams

Principle 6:   Clear Your Debts

Principle 7:   Give To Charity

Principle 8:   Set Up An Emergency Fund

Conclusion

Financial Quotes To Live By

Resources

Glossary

PREFACE

This book was written to help individuals transform their current financial situation and to leave a legacy for the next generation. We had a vision of a society full of people who would be better positioned to look after their personal, mental and professional lives once they were equipped with the financial tools to fulfil their needs. From January 2014, we sat and worked side by side on how we could best produce a book accessible to everyone and that would allow our readers to implement the techniques required in order to achieve financial peace.

Unlike other books on finance and achieving wealth, The Path to Financial Peace is written with a step-by-step guide including eight key principles that, when applied consistently for at least a year, will help you build your finances.

The essence of the book is to give you peace of mind about your finances and provide a remedy for your financial mindset. We aim to reset the status quo so that everyone has the ability to experience life in abundance.

Mckala Mcleod and Dean Williams

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Dean Williams is dedicated in his mission to inspire people from all walks of life to develop their economic and personal wellbeing. Dean, an empowerment speaker, mentor, entrepreneur, volunteer and author, has transformed his reality and is determined to inspire others to do the same. Dean started his journey when he made the difficult decision to leave the corporate banking world in early 2012. With the burning desire to embrace the challenge of success for himself and others, he set up the Exclusive Visions Ltd a Business Consultancy Company. As a young, black male from Hackney, having faced many previous barriers such as being born with a visual impairment and dyslexia, he wanted to use his experience from banking and studying the art of wealth and riches to help others. What drives Dean is his passion to help people uncover their purpose in life, their why in life and how best to maximise their time. It is his main aspiration to uncover the untapped power that lays dormant in people so that they are able to leave a positive legacy for the next generation.

Mckala Mcleod works in education and has a deep love of politics and Caribbean history. Her passion is to write books on topics of identity and personal development. In her spare time, Mckala has volunteered for a number of charities for young people that are dedicated to raising personal and academic aspirations. Although her background is in teaching and humanities, Mckala undertook the challenge of writing The Path to Personal Financial Peace because of her desire to help inspire economically and financially responsible future generations. She hopes to complete a PhD in social science very soon in order to help uplift and empower individuals through books and seminars.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

We would like to take the time to thank all those individuals who have supported the work on this book in different ways. Our friends and family, most especially the Williams Family, the Mcleod Family, the Charles Family and the Tabannor Family as well as our editors, Sam Amalemba, Imaan Wallace, Ian Charles, Cherry Mosteshar, Ndu Amaechi, Kris Foye, Dianne Watts, Shauna-Kay Grant and the work of Jannat Ferdaus whose influence in the bank helped Dean to become more financially astute (thanks for helping a brother out!).

We would like to thank Pastor Mark Amadi, Anthony Owusu as well as the congregation at the Fountain of Peace Church for their unwavering support. If it were not for you, this book would not have happened.

To Brad Burton and Kevin Ferguson for sharing your stories with us, as well as all those others not named here who have provided help and guidance through their words of encouragement.

Thank you!

POWER EQUATION

Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power. If you realise that you have enough, you are truly rich.

Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

There is a saying, "knowledge is power" and if this is true then imagine that you have read all the books in the British Library and