Combat Finance: How Military Values and Discipline Will Help You Achieve Financial Freedom

Preface

Combat Finance is a financial self-help book that takes the fog of the everyday financial battle and breaks it down into an easily understandable process that you can use to reach personal financial freedom. I think you’ll find it to be an uplifting read that uses basic military analogies to help explain financial concepts in a way that you can immediately apply to your personal situation, regardless of whether you are 18 or 81. The purpose of this book is to both educate and entertain and, therefore, it is not a financial dissertation, nor is it a white paper on military doctrine and tactics. It is not a book of war stories about staring down the enemy and it’s not just for those with military service. It is a book that will make sense even if the closest you have ever come to the military is making cookies with a Cub Scout den mother.

I wrote Combat Finance to help instill the values, principles, and discipline that it takes to succeed financially, so don’t expect any gimmicks or get rich quick schemes. But don’t get me wrong—getting your finances under control doesn’t have to be like getting a root canal, either. You’ll see that following the fundamentals and maintaining self-discipline is easy when you have a plan and a process. That is what I’m going to teach you in Combat Finance, and I think you’re even going to have some fun along the way. Who knows, you might even learn to appreciate what you have more and worry about what you don’t have less, all the while knowing ...