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Retirement often seems like the distant finish line of a long career, but what if you could retire decades earlier than most people? In Set for Life, Scott Trench explains how to achieve financial freedom earlier by generating enough passive income to cover your lifestyle without needing to work a regular job. With his three-step approach of living frugally, increasing your income, and investing wisely, you can gain the freedom to pursue your passions, travel, or spend more time with family without financial constraints.

In this guide, we’ll examine Trench’s methods for cutting major expenses, making strategic housing choices, pursuing higher-paying opportunities, and investing for passive income. Drawing from the insights of other personal finance experts, we’ll also provide adaptations of Trench’s strategies for those with different life circumstances who want to accelerate their path to financial freedom.

Many people feel helpless when it comes to managing their money. They’re consumed by debt or worry that they'll never be financially secure.

In The Barefoot Investor, Scott Pape offers guidance and a 10-step plan for how to manage your money so that you eliminate debt and build wealth. Though the plan is written for an Australian audience, the basic principles are universally applicable. Starting with establishing regular date nights with your significant other to discuss finances, then covering reducing debt and buying a home, the steps in this book will help you make informed money decisions.

The modern world lures us into giving away our freedom, argues early retiree Jacob Lund Fisker. The vast majority of adults are caught in an unfulfilling cycle of consumerism: They sell decades of their lives to employers so they can buy consumable goods and status symbols that don’t make them happy. Luckily, Fisker says, it’s possible to break out of this system: He did this by learning how to survive on just $7,000 a year, which allowed him to permanently retire at age 33. In Early Retirement Extreme, he teaches others how to do the same.

In this guide, you’ll learn the basic principles of Fisker’s frugal mindset and how you, too, can retire at an extremely early age. In our commentary, we’ll examine popular ideas from the early retirement community that provide intellectual context for Fisker’s argument and help you save even more money. We’ll also highlight counterpoints to Fisker’s point of view from books including 168 Hours and I Will Teach You to Be Rich.

Retirement often seems like the distant finish line of a long career, but what if you could retire decades earlier than most people? In Set for Life, Scott Trench explains how to achieve financial freedom earlier by generating enough passive income to cover your lifestyle without needing to work a regular job. With his three-step approach of living frugally, increasing your income, and investing wisely, you can gain the freedom to pursue your passions, travel, or spend more time with family without financial constraints.

In this guide, we’ll examine Trench’s methods for cutting major expenses, making strategic housing choices, pursuing higher-paying opportunities, and investing for passive income. Drawing from the insights of other personal finance experts, we’ll also provide adaptations of Trench’s strategies for those with different life circumstances who want to accelerate their path to financial freedom.

Just about everyone dreams of wealth, but why do so few people turn that dream into reality? Self-made millionaire Felix Dennis wrote How to Get Rich to teach you the mindset and the skills you need to start a business and build a fortune, and to explain why so many fail at doing so.

In this guide, we’ll start with Dennis’s warnings about how difficult it really is to get rich and what you might lose in the pursuit of wealth. From there, we’ll discuss how to start and run your own business. Finally, we’ll examine Dennis’s advice about how to live a healthy, happy, and satisfying life with your newfound riches.

Our commentary will compare and contrast Dennis’s ideas with those from other business guides such as Purple Cow and Start With Why. We’ll also discuss which of Dennis’s principles are backed by scientific evidence and which are currently not. Finally, we’ll provide some actionables to help you start your journey to wealth.

In your business, do you settle for good enough results or strive to be extraordinary? In Getting Everything You Can Out of All You've Got, business leader and executive coach Jay Abraham argues that business success demands more than maintaining your status quo. To thrive, you must consistently seek ways to serve your customers better, outperform your competitors, and maximize your profits. He offers practical strategies to enhance every aspect of your business, paving the way for exponential growth and success.

This guide walks you through his strategies for driving long-term growth and profitability. Additionally, we’ll supplement Abraham’s ideas with research and advice from entrepreneurs and management professionals, and we’ll provide actionable methods for implementing his suggestions in your own business.

According to Tony Hsieh, the former CEO of online clothing retailer Zappos, happiness is good for business. Happy employees work harder and more efficiently, and happy customers spend more money. So how can you make your customers and employees happier and maximize profits? In Delivering Happiness, Hsieh says the answer lies in implementing three principles: Encourage a healthy business culture, provide great customer service, and invest in continuing education.

In this guide, we’ll explore each of these principles, how to implement them, and how they turned Zappos into a billion-dollar company in a decade. Along the way, we’ll compare Hsieh’s ideas with those of other business experts like Jim Collins (Good to Great) and psychologists like Jonathan Haidt (The Happiness Hypothesis). Finally, we’ll explore the psychology behind happiness and why Hsieh’s dedication to cultivating it led to his success.