You're wasting time and money prolonging inevitable
595677
Did not stop bed bugs, you'll need to get the expensive treatment by a company or burn your mattresses eventually sorry. Put this on and saw bed bugs on top the next night
4304223
You can tell that the authors (1) wrote a strong book proposal that (2) covered the first two weeks of work.  The proposal sold, and then they were stuck with trying to come up with ten more weeks of advice.  The result is a deeply repetitive, inadvertently condescending book that gives you advice that is both obvious and ridiculous.  Don't wear T-shirts to the office.  Ask everyone around you what they think of you.  Pay attention to trends.  Manage your time.  And don't forget - don't wear T-shirts to the office!  It's well-meaning, but perhaps most useful for recent college grads.  It would have been helpful for the authors to target a more specific audience.  The authors' attempt to be as general as possible gives the impression that they've never actually worked in an office - only read business books and watched Office Space.  If I could figure out how to demand my money back for a Kindle book, I would.
3119616
I couldn't help but think the author was in need of money and so put this together with little thought. It's a good reminder that we all make the plans for our life. Don't waste your money.
653487
If you do more things in less time then you will do more things in less time.

I just saved you 3 hours.
3480229
Does not save time, is a waste if you know how to fold you can do it faster.
4640221
Doesn't provide any "cost savings" advice other than thinking of spending less,saving more. This is definitely geared more towards people that have zero concept of saving for the future.
1264343
This book may have the word "I" more than any book I've purchased. If you are not a fan of authors telling their extended life stories, then I suggest you stay away from this offering.

The ideas in this book are long and drawn out because of his inability to concisely author his thoughts. Mr. Sterner's writing style is tedious to read with basic vocabulary and a convoluted message. I had no "aha" moments that urged me to access the highlighter option.

An exercise that may suit you better is to take a look at this line. How can it be applied to your life?

"The process is better than the end result."

With all successes, this is a belief in action. How you manage to apply this to your life is up to you.
3018747
Ultimate guide??! This was a waste of 15 precious minutes of my life because that's how long it took to read it. This author makes it sound like you will get rich overnight. For example, he/she suggests starting a blog...then get a following...then use an affiliate program. He/she doesn't describe what this entails, how long it will take or how much money you will have to SPEND! This person just grazed the top of the subjects, just enough to put it in a Kindle book and sell it. There is so much information lacking here! I feel betrayed and ripped off by this book's title and the author.
The way this person has written this book compares to someone telling you, "If you want to make a lot of money, become a doctor. It may take some perseverance but soon you'll be on your way". Yeah, in about 10 years and with thousands of dollars spent!
2878194
This was a total waste of my time.  Everything in this should be painfully obvious to anyone who takes the time to read it.  Also, the authors put there blinders on; if all you want to do is collection wealth, eat PB&Js and ramen,  While I still qualify as wealthy via their formula, I understand that quality needs to play into the mix and they do not seem to understand this concept.
4714918
I bought this book based on the hordes of positive reviews on Amazon but found it to be a huge disappointment.

I suppose if you are under 35 and have a lot of debt BUT you can still pretty much pay your bills on time, this book might be for you. It does help you look at how you spend your money (and how you shouldn't spend it) in a general way, busts some myths, and can help you avoid making mistakes while helping you get out of debt and start saving money.

But after patiently reading pages containing a lot of what is frankly, by now, conventional wisdom that you can get for free during an internet search (never buy a new car, pay cash, etc.) I finally got to Baby Step #1, which is to immediately save $1,000 and make a budget. However, Ramsey assumes that you already have enough money to pay your bills and that you are current. If you're not current, his advice is to "get current." That's it. If I knew how to do that, Mr. Ramsey, I wouldn't have bought your book.

So after you "get current" (magically, apparently, or maybe this info was in one of his other books) you need to save that extra $1000 fast. That is a great idea. How to do it? Take a second job and/or sell something. Duh. Really? I would have never thought of that.

I guess if you already work more than one job, have sold all your gold and antiques, drive old and paid-for cars, have a kid in college (yep, she already gets scholarships and financial aid--no loans), bought your house with 1/3 down (but it's now worth less than what you owe) and you still have credit card debt and can't pay your bills on time (because you had a couple of those every-10-year life emergencies he talks about preparing for), you need a different book. This one is way too glib to help you.

The success stories on every other page are inspiring, but there are few if any specifics on how they achieved their debt-free status, other than to say they followed Mr. Ramsey's advice. And it is worth nothing that perhaps only 1 story was from anyone over 50.

I will, however, pass this book along to my teenage daughter (the one in college) to help her learn the basics of family finance and debt before she gets into trouble. An ounce of prevention, as they say.
4776834
I was fascinated by the title  - and the "Exposing of the Dark Side of the personal Finance industry". I believe a more apt title would have been a "A complaint about the Personal Finance Industry with no conclusion". The book goes through and blisters everyone from radio, TV, print, corporations, lobbyists - anyone who offers anything with the word "Financial". Her point is that their advice is worthless, they're out to scam you and you can never achieve any financial goals because the 'system' is against you --- unless you already have money. Then you are an evil 1%'er.

She goes in depth in detailing Dave Ramsey's, Stanley's, Orman's words - but skims over the basis' Keynes, pension issues and the transition to 401k's, and the CRA Act?

I gave it two stars because I think it worth a read if you are interested in reading a complaint book with a conclusion that we need to just have a "conversation". Also, I believe she is a good wordsmith, it is obvious she is practiced in the art. Her snarkiness missed with me because I did not think it was used appropriately, at the right time, and in the correct fashion. Snarkiness for snarkiness sake is not snarky.

You will not learn anything from this book - just read a better review than this one and you can move on to your next book idea.

The big finish, "Please let us begin a conversation about our money. From there all things will become possible."
2225545
This book is a waste of time and money, especially if you have already started law school. I have already read about 120 pages, and the only advice I have gleaned from it is stuff your mother could tell you (even if she never went to law school): get enough sleep, exercise regularly, take time out to do something other than study, and--try not to crap your pants, cause this is the hum-dinger--believe in yourself and do your best.  If you need to read a book to tell you these things, consider a career as coffee shop barista instead of spending $100,000 to go to law school.  In light of that amount of debt, don't waste ten bucks on this book.  Take your money, go down to the local Good Will and look for either an inspirational poster with a kitten cowering on a tree branch that says, "Hang In There!", or a coffee mug enscribed with the declaration, "World's Greatest Dad" and purchase them instead for a quarter.  Either would be equally as invaluable as this book and will likely add even more to your law school survival skills.  Plus, kittens are really cute, and you will surely need a mug.
91826
Some useful information, BUT IF YOU IMPLEMENT ALL THIS IT WILL COST A FORTUNE. Where is the funding supposed to come from? The author doesn't cost out anything he writes about. This would be like writing a book on how to build a well built house and putting in steps that would cost 2 million dollars. Who can do that? The author continues to act in a clued out way by continually focusing on 'GET THE BEST QUALITY" (of everything) even if it is more expensive!" Where is the money coming from? How much should be budgeted? Some good "resource info" but the writer has failed the reader by behaving as if cost and funding make no difference at all to any reader.
832124
Your time and money would be better spent if you were to commmit these rescources to the study of your own ass!
3179613
I think you would be much better spending your money elsewhere.  I find the video to basic for just about anyone.  My opinion.
3989385
I'm writing this review in hopes that someone finds an objective point of view about the game helpful. This is NOT a review colored with nostalgia or overly influenced (and blinded) by the games artwork.

Roll the dice, choose whether to move left or right, draw a random card or roll the dice again depending on where you land. I'd write more, but that's all there is to the game. Talisman is no more than the recycled mechanic from Monopoly with a fantasy theme tacked on. Oh sure, there are stats (health, manna, strength); there's good artwork; there's a plethora of expansions that can potentially suck your money in faster than it takes to play this 5 to 7 hour game (seriously: a game this simple shouldn't take as long or longer than a game of RISK. If you play this, be prepared to spend an entire afternoon or evening, and the time it takes to play increases with expansions).

Don't believe the hype; don't get distracted by the artwork; please please consider that there are better games out there for your hard-earned money (like Thunderstone Advance or Mage Knight or Stratego or the Space Hulk Card Game). In short, don't buy this game. If you do, be prepared to leave your brain at the door.
3343515
Holy crap I am sorry I bought this. just another self help book that spends a narcissistically unbearable amount of time describing its theory and zero time talking about real life actions on how to go about changing things.
Also, the book begins by speaking about how the tradional response to a procrastinator is to say, just do it. Yet, the book spends two chapters dancing around the same advice without saying the exact words "just do it" (productive people just choose to do things where procrastinators do not). Just CHOOSE the responsible action, just CHOOSE the now habit. Just CHOOSE to sto procrastinating. Just do it.
He says in the hour long introduction that this book will be a positive support for procrastinators but still goes on to repeat over and over all the ways procrastinators fail to be producers.
In addition this psychologist looks too far into the trees to define the forest. He spends a large amount of time telling us we procrastinate because we have low self-esteem, we're fearful of success, failure, and criticism. Long stories that are probably fictional to fit his theory tell us jackSh** besides that he thinks he's right. I personally do not have low self esteem, fear of anything he mentions, nor do I mentally abuse myself over procrastination. I just have a habit of procrastinating. It's just a forest with trees, sir. The trees aren't there because they didn't like themselves. Stop telling us what the trees look like, and tell us how to navigate the forest. After 3+ hours of audiobook I couldn't tell you what the Now Habit actually is. All I can tell you is this man really thinks it's some gold-plated piece of cake though.
Obviously the first step to changing something is understanding it. This man doesn't understand procrastination.