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    Your Financial Life
    Your Financial Life
    Your Financial Life
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    Your Financial Life

    By Jeff Davidson

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    Set financial goals, and learn to efficiently accomplish them

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJeff Davidson
    Release dateApr 7, 2018
    ISBN9781370985227
    Your Financial Life
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    Jeff Davidson

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      Your Financial Life - Jeff Davidson

      1Your Financial Life

      by Jeff Davidson

      Accomplishing financial goals is a topic perennial topic of concern: In 1947, Ladies Home Journal polled thousands of American households and found that 70% of all their worries were about money. In seven decades, little has changed.

      Chances are excellent that of the seven major goal areas you have notable challenges when it comes to getting your finances in order.

      Preparation for Financial Success

      Some financial goals you'd like to reach by tomorrow or, at least, next week, but would you be prepared for the consequences?

      Most lottery winners are not prepared for the many dollars that suddenly enter their lives. For example, do they opt to receive the winnings over a 20-year period or do they want it all in one lump sum? Did you know that companies court the lottery winners to take their future pay outs and in exchange offer them less in the present as a lump sum? Such arrangements enable lottery winners to experience the instant gratification of receiving a huge (if somewhat reduced) pot of money now.

      What happens to those people who are unprepared to be a

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