Live. Save. Spend. Repeat. is a primer about getting a handle on your budget, but it is so much more than a book on finance. Author Kim Anderson tackles the why behind what motivates one to save or spend, live on credit or thrive debt-free.
Kim Anderson is not a banker. She’s not an investment broker. She’s not a CPA nor does she have an MBA. What Kim does have, is a success story of getting out of debt and paying off her home mortgage. On one income. $93,000 eliminated in two years.
Her book outlines the Easy Sync Budget she developed to create a plan of attack, the dreams that became Momentum Milestones, and the day that changed her beautiful perception of debt.
Kim debunks the theory of using credit cards to earn rewards with the real facts of interest rates and convenient money. If it’s easy money, then why are the banks so eager to hand out cards? Live. Save. Spend. Repeat. is an important book for an era when so many live on credit. In fact, Kim says, “Americans as a whole have gotten in the habit of using money that we don’t actually have. Carrying around debt only leads us to a constant cycle of stress and dissatisfaction.”
What do you trade for your money? Entertainment? Keeping up with the Joneses? How about boldly wanting more out of life and funding it with your own hard earned money, instead of interest building up against your payments? Kim teaches you how to do that, with questionnaires for self-reflection, charts for breaking down the budget into bite-size portions, formulas for your lifestyle and places to dream about your life goals.
Kim Anderson allows you to see her own life unfiltered, in order to help you live a life without regrets. Isn’t it time to become strategic about your legacy?
I am giving away a copy of Live. Save. Spend. Repeat., courtesy of Harvest House Publishers, to one reader in the continental United States. Leave a comment on my blog (at the top of this post, under the title) and answer this question, “What goal would you pursue, if there was room in your budget?” You will be entered into the drawing to be held three days from now, April 17. I can’t wait to hear the dreams you would fuel!
Sally
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I also, like Gail does, would like to know how she got out of debt and what things did she give up to do it?
Elaine,
Kim says the best plan is awareness. “Conquering your money situation will require a clear plan of attack. It’s called the Easy Sync Budget so that you can
1. feel confident that you can budget.
2. be in sync with your bank account every single month.
3. be in sync with your spending and saving each day.”
Elaine!
You’re the winner of the drawing… Congratulations!
I’ve always had a dream place to retreat to and it’s a little log cabin type of home with a front porch and sits right on a creek bank so that I could sit in my lawn chair out by the creek and watch the water flow down the creek in between reading chapters in my books! Aaaahhh, the life!
oooh Elaine, I can just picture your cabin and hear the bubbling creek! It’s good to have a dream!
I’m especially interested in learning how the author got out of debt. The plan, the struggles, the set backs and finally her feeling of success and how she keeps the strength and persistence to sustain a debt free life in today’s pressure filled environment to “buy more, save more” get, get, get, from store ads to shows such as “extreme couponing” which gives the illusion of saving money by buying more and stock piling all under the guise of living on a budget.
Interesting you should mention the buy more, save more, Gail. Kim is not a fan of stock piling. She says it perpetuates the mentality of never having enough!
Kim asks, “What motivates you?” The answer is different for everyone, and so Kim talks about 5 motivation styles to help you work it to your own advantage & persevere when the going gets tough.
Good thoughts!