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Review: Smart Woman’s Guide: The Money Belief Formula

Is your mindset sabotaging your ability to win with wealth?

Transform your life with Smart Woman’s Guide: The Money Belief Formula, a critical strategy to achieve financial success by examining money beliefs and behaviors and altering one’s attitude about money.

Money is present in every aspect of your life. As a result, focusing on the “money side” of economic literacy/financial capability will not improve your financial situation. For success, self-awareness and financial awareness are both required.

The more you understand the where, why, when, and how of your money thoughts, feelings, beliefs, and attitudes, the more likely you are to connect to your money, to recognize the need for better financial habits, and to make better financial choices.

In other words, one’s thoughts and beliefs influence one’s actions. Money is a result of our actions, not the other way around. Financial success can be yours if you have the proper mindset and technique.

The money belief formula is a proven approach that can help you:

Develop your financial foundation
Foster the habits needed to win with wealth
Substitute positive beliefs for the negative ones
Change mindset perspective from dollars and cents to habits and actions
Identify and dispel some of your irrational fears and doubts
Identify ways to reinforce the new beliefs you’ve developed. Why that sabotage is causing problems in your life (and what to do about it)
Better handle difficulties
Decrease stress levels
Produce a long-term change that creates successful actions based on confidence rather than worry or uncertainty
Permeate an environment more conducive to health and wellness
The book outlines a few simple steps involved: Self-talk (money affirmations), a positive outlook, and a plan of action are all part of the AAA Principles of Change (Awareness, Acceptance, and Action), which also include exercises to help you become more conscious of your thought processes. In addition, activities and worksheets are provided in each chapter to help you put what you’ve learned into practice.

To achieve your definition of success, you must first break the money taboo and empower your money relationship. Until and unless behavior changes, nothing changes.

In Smart Woman’s Guide: The Money Belief Formula, author, podcaster, money coach, and founder Herfinance Club Susan M. Diamond, MSW, CFSW, takes traditional money management to a whole new level by engaging the creative side of the brain in financial wellness, which includes looking at how you feel about money and how you relate to it. She outlines a simple, step-by-step process for getting started on creating your financial foundation for winning with wealth.

Susan has spent the last several years blending the latest research and compressed the most recent industry opinions from neuroscience, transformative learning, and psychosocial techniques into concepts and tools to help you improve your results with money.

It makes no difference where you are in your financial development, how much expertise you have, or how much cash you have in the bank. No one ever achieves ultimate financial success without first working on their relationship with money.

Smart Woman’s Guide: The Money Belief Formula is the key to understanding how your habits influence your money mindset. Your mindset plays a big role in money, and it’s often how we feel about our financial situation that dictates whether you create bad habits or sustain good ones. Our mindset is the foundation to building wealth.

You have the power to alter the way you feel, think, act, and relate to money. As soon as you do so, the money magic begins! Are you ready to get started?

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

Review: Bullets and Bandages: Bond of Brothers

Bullets and Bandages: Bond of Brothers is a story inspired by the words of a US Army Field Medic, 21st Infantry, and his stories about his tour in Vietnam 1968-69. Through those stories, the author was given the unique insight into the men who struggled to survive in a war many of us didn’t understand. The author also brings to us some of his own experiences, in this challenging time in our history. Fast paced and full of action and drama, this raw and powerful story takes you on a journey into the jungles, villages, and hamlets of Vietnam, and the men in the thick of the fight. The new fourth edition has new details to more accurately reflect the tour of soldiers in the Vietnam war. The author dedicates this story and all of his work to our Veterans and those that serve to protect our freedom today.

Review: The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire

Tells the story of the fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist factory in New York City on March 25, 1911. Written in graphic-novel format.

Review: The Running Wolf

It is 1687, and German swordmaker families seek refuge in England. This is the tale of the Shotley Bridge swordmakers.

When a German smuggler is imprisoned in Morpeth Gaol in the winter of 1703, why does Queen Anne’s powerful right-hand man, the Earl of Nottingham, take such a keen interest? At the end of the turbulent 17th century, the ties that bind men are fraying, turning neighbor against neighbor, friend against friend, and brother against brother. Beneath a seething layer of religious intolerance, community suspicion, and political intrigue, The Running Wolf takes us deep into the heart of rebel country in the run-up to the 1715 Jacobite uprising.

Hermann Mohll is a master swordmaker from Solingen in Germany who risks his life by breaking his guild oaths and settling in England. While trying to save his family and neighbors from poverty, he is caught smuggling swords and finds himself in Morpeth Gaol facing charges of high treason. Determined to hold his tongue and his nerve, Mohll finds himself at the mercy of the corrupt keeper, Robert Tipstaff. The keeper fancies he can persuade the truth out of Mohll and make him face the ultimate justice: hanging, drawing and quartering.

But in this tangled web of secrets and lies, just who is telling the truth?

Review: Everyone Is an Entrepreneur

Westerners today grow up with abundant opportunities to determine their own values, identities, and roles in society. But for generations, millions who lived under Soviet rule in the USSR had these essential freedoms withheld, determined instead by a central authority that claimed the right to choose for them and enforce their compliance. Thirty years after the Soviet Union’s decisive collapse, the old communist paradigm continues to limit those who come of age in a post-Soviet world.

Everyone Is an Entrepreneur showcases the experience of an American author acclimating to life in the developing post-Soviet economy of Armenia. Along the way, he examines how the intelligent and hardworking people he lives among are stuck in a state of transition away from all-encompassing, bureaucratic control. They struggle to adjust to the responsibilities of economic self-determination because they have never learned how to see the world through entrepreneurial eyes.

Entrepreneurship is a principled way of seeing the world, a paradigm that applies to people in all cultural and economic circumstances: artists, office workers, doctors, teachers, farmers, and laborers alike. By adopting this universal outlook, anyone can produce more wealth, accomplish bigger goals, and take control of their life like never before.

Review: Sunwise

Sunwise is the sequel to Helen Steadman’s best-selling novel Widdershins. Both novels were inspired by the Newcastle witch trials, where 16 people were hanged. Despite resulting in the largest mass execution of witches on a single day in England, these trials are not widely known about.

Sunwise continues the story of women’s struggle for survival in a hostile and superstitious world. Spurred on by the successful execution of 17 proven witches, the witchfinder travels north to Berwick, where he continues his quest to rid the world of evil. But will he hoodwink the Berwick authorities as easily as those in Newcastle?

Sunwise begins after the Newcastle witch trials as Jane Chandler’s lover, Tom Verger, returns from the navy to find her unhappily married to his betrayer. Jane is caught in an impossible situation. Still reeling from the loss of her mother at the hands of the witchfinder, Jane has no choice but to continue her dangerous work as a healer while keeping her young daughter safe. As Tom seeks a way for him and Jane to be together, the Scottish witchfinder is still at large. Filled with vengeance, John Sharpe will stop at nothing in his sworn mission to free the world from the scourge of witchcraft.

The Historical Novel Society said of Sunwise: “The novel is rich in fascinating details: Jane’s remedies and the village customs, partly Christian, partly pagan. Ancient names for plants and festivities, both seasonal and Christian, add colour to the narrative. Jane’s story is based on true events, and Jane represents the many women whose healing gifts made them victims of superstition and violence.”

Recommended for anyone who has enjoyed Stacey Halls’ The Familiars, Beth Underdown’s The Witchfinder’s Sister, AK Blakemore’s The Manningtree Witches, Elizabeth Lee’s Cunning Women, Louisa Morgan’s A Secret History of Witches, Jeanette Winterson’s The Daylight Gate, Madeline Miller’s Circe, or Deborah Harkness’ A Discovery of Witches.

Review: Widdershins

Widdershins is inspired by the Newcastle witch trials where sixteen people were hanged. Despite being the largest mass execution of witches on a single day in England, these trials are not widely known about. In August 1650, 15 women and one man were hanged as witches after a Scottish witchfinder found them guilty of consorting with the devil. This notorious man was hired by the Puritan authorities in response to a petition from the Newcastle townsfolk who wanted to be rid of their witches.

Widdershins is told through the eyes of Jane Chandler, a young woman accused of witchcraft, and John Sharpe, the witchfinder who condemns her to death. Jane Chandler is an apprentice healer. From childhood, she and her mother have used herbs to cure the sick. But Jane soon learns that her sheltered life in a small village is not safe from the troubles of the wider world. From his father’s beatings to his uncle’s raging sermons, John Sharpe is beset by bad fortune. Fighting through personal tragedy, he finds his purpose: To become a witchfinder and save innocents from the scourge of witchcraft.

Review: A True History of the United States

Written by a combat veteran of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, A True History of the United States grew out of a course that Daniel A. Sjursen taught to cadets at West Point, his alma mater. With chapter titles such as “Patriots or Insurgents?” and “The Decade That Roared and Wept”, A True History is accurate with respect to the facts and intellectually honest in its presentation and analysis.

Review: Blood in the Water : A True Story of Small-Town Revenge

A brutal murder in a small Nova Scotia fishing community raises urgent questions of right and wrong, and even the nature of good and evil, in this masterfully told true story.

Blood in the Water offers a dramatic narrative set in a unique, lovingly drawn setting, where a story about one small community has universal resonance and raises a disturbing question: Are there times when taking the law into your own hands is not only understandable but the responsible thing to do?

This is a story not about lobster, but about the grand themes of power and law, security and self-respect.

In June 2013, three upstanding citizens of a small town on Cape Breton Island murdered their neighbor, Phillip Boudreau, at sea.

While out checking their lobster traps, two Landry cousins and skipper Dwayne Samson saw Boudreau in his boat, the Midnight Slider, about to vandalize their lobster traps. Like so many times before, the small-time criminal was about to cost them thousands of dollars out of their seasonal livelihood.

Boudreau seemed invincible, a miscreant who would plague the village forever. Meanwhile the police and local officials were frustrated, cowed, and hobbled by shrinking budgets.

One man took out a rifle and fired four shots at Boudreau and his boat.

Was the Boudreau killing cold blooded murder, a direct reaction to credible threats, or the tragic result of local officials lacking the resources and authority to protect the community? As many local people have said, if those fellows hadn’t killed him, someone else would have.

Review: The Legend of Korra: The Art of the Animated Series–Book Two: Spirits (Second Edition)

Go behind the scenes of the animated series Legend of Korra Book Two – Spirits—created by Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko—the smash hit sequel to their blockbuster show Avatar: The Last Airbender!

This handsome hardcover contains hundreds of art pieces created during the development of the show’s first season, along with new sketches from the original creative team! Featuring creator commentary from DiMartino and Konietzko and a brand-new foreword by Korra voice actor P.J. Byrne, this is an intimate look inside the creative process that brought a new generation of Avatar heroes to life!