Michael and I have never met in person, but we were on a Canadian talk radio show earlier this year and had many similar views on how to get out of debt and live a life of abundance. Michael and I hit it off because his background is Aerospace Engineering (He truly is a rocket scientist!)and I was a pharmaceutical biochemist.(Major geek factor here!) After the radio show, Michael and I continued to correspond and we started traded books and philosophies.
Michael’s focus is definitely for anyone who is in debt and wants some no-nonsense simple systems to bail out of it. My two favorite chapters of this book were Chapter 4: Be aware of the ongoing campaign to separate you from your money and Chapter 10: How to plan your finances. I immediately felt a connection with Michael because he and I both lost a parent before we were 25. His Dad died when he was 13 and my mom died when I was 21. When I first read Michael’s dedication of his book my throat seized up with emotion. He had dedicated his book to his Dad just like I had dedicated my first book to my mom. Of course, I was off and reading after that!
Michael’s systems for gaining control of your finances are simple and easily accomplished in a spiral ring notebook or you can use a computer spreadsheet. The Appendix section is a boon where Michael discusses and defines all those crazy financial terms that you may have never heard around your family’s dinner table. Such crazy words like: Amortization, Collateral, Equity, and Interest. Different mortgages are also demonstrated with lots of tables so you can see how each one works. I wish someone had taken me by the hand after college and explained all these principles to me. I would have become financially stable a lot quicker! Good job on the book, Michael. Give his website a view and tell him, Janine sent you.
