The Great Money Reset

Worth to read. High recommend to whom is lost in financial management. Easy to understand, practical samples, case studies.
During the pandemic, many things have been reset. You have to learn to adapt yourself to new situation. Reset your life, your social relations, your financial status. How to do? How to treat everything well, just read this book

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Jill Schlesinger is back with a great new money book that really makes you think about what you NEED to think about before making huge life decisions.
During the pandemic, many people re-evaluated their lives, their careers, and even their retirements.
The Author walks a person through what they should think about before making a drastic change in circumstances.
Giving examples of real people, the book delves into many situations that ordinary people may find themselves in.
This is a great book to read before contemplating any changes in your life, your living situation or work place.

This was an excellent book on personal finance and career direction. The author's tone was highly readable, and the advice was sound and timely. Most of the book deals with life after the pandemic and the need to re-think your life and your finances after a time of tremendous change. Even though I had already gone through some major changes in my life, I found the book interesting and helpful.

This book comes at the right time -- post pandemic - many of us are wondering what are we doing with our lives and as a consequence how can us looking at our money reset help guide us to new choices. What I particularly liked about this book is that it is full of practical tips -- not theory. Each chapter has case studies and personal stories that really help illustrate the points -- so there is something for everyone in this book regardless of where you are at in your career or life. At the end of each chapter is a summary of the key tips which I also like. There are ten chapters and my favorite was to challenge our own spending assumptions/beliefs we set for ourselves. What is great about this book is it is not really an investing book but rather has us self-reflect on our beliefs, our choices to help identify where a reset is helpful. Don't get me wrong -- there are chapters on investing and taxes and whether to seek more education, or sell or buy a business but the underlying theme is to push us to identify our overall goal. To me, that is what makes this book unique and extremely timely! I recommend this book.

Thank you to Netgalley and St. Martin's Press for the ARC in exchange for my honest review.

Great book with timely information in our modern, post(present?) Covid-19 world. Makes you really think about what you NEED. The title is spot on. Let's take time to RESET our thinking about our finances and make better, more informed decisions. I recommend this book often and tell everyone to get it in January.

As a committed daily listener to Jill on Money, I knew I was going to love this book before I even started.

I read the whole thing in Jill's humorous, no nonsense tone and got a little thrill whenever I recognized a story from the podcast.

Did the book offer a ton of information that I wouldn't have gleaned from my daily listens to the pod? Probably not. But it does put it all in one place so you don't need to compile all the steps and things to think about yourself by taking little bits of information from dozens of different episodes.

I enjoyed it but depending on availability I'd probably recommend the audiobook for friends who are less familiar with Jill's tone of voice and humor to help them understand her intonation a little more!

This book has many good suggestions on how to start to get out of the money making rut. Read it and work out your plan but my suggestion is “Do It!”. I am 76 years old and did do it but I did it very differently. I never let the desire for more money get in the way of living a great life. My philosophy was you only go around once in life so enjoy it. If you like working and making money then do it. If you want more experiences then get out and do it. I found jobs and money were always there when they were needed.. I now live in Ecuador where the philosophy is that life is made for living, I like that philosophy. Read this book and enjoy your life. You only go around once so Do It!

I'll say it - Finance can be an overwhelming topic for me. I want to understand it more, and sometimes, er, most of the time, I just don't. This book makes the topic so accessible even for someone like me! What I really liked is that this isn't just about money, but it's about looking at money in the context of your life. It isn't just about amassing wealth, rather it leads with figuring out what you want and need and how to make informed decisions around to get there. Throughout, it also offers options. What works for one person might not work for someone else, and I appreciated there wasn't just one prescribed path. Overall, this was a really strong reflection of what financial health and care is within the scope of your life and passions. It's a hard sell for me to dig a finance book, but this one achieved that! Thanks to NetGalley and St. Martins Press for the early look at this January 2023 release.

This book is a worthwhile guide for anyone reevaluating their lives and choices after the experiences of the pandemic. The financial advice is both timeless and timely, and relayed with both humor and compassion. The plentiful stories make the financial advice come to life.

"The Great Money Reset" poses the question, "How far am I willing to go to change my life for future me?" because the changes you are about to make, with Jill's kind guidance, will set your future self up with a nice cushion to fall on. She addresses many worries that the reader may have, such as 'Can I retire early?' or 'Can I quit my job for a year to pursue my passion or hit the road?', with example stories and a step by step guide to success. Jill asks you to rethink your financial mindset from day to day survival mode to holding onto a long term vision and the endless possibilities it holds for you.

As a reader asking myself a lot of the questions Jill poses, I found this book to be a helpful guide in the new year as we enter 2023 and its economic uncertainties. With Jill's guidance, I can confidently say that I feel more prepared to faced the coming recession than I did two months ago.

With THE GREAT MONEY RESET, Jill Schlesinger provides a map to navigate the unruly and unpredictable territory we are living post-lockdown and isolation. I so appreciate her down-to-earth advice, particularly the instances I live now where I pause and consider the future, my bigger picture goals. I am attempting now to make the shifts and work my way to decisions I know I have to make, but had been dragging my feet in denying. Will it be easy? No. Will it be perfect? No. BUT with this Schlesinger's guidance, I am better prepared to make smart decisions that work for me and my life.

The many fans of Jill Schlesinger – her podcast “Jill on Money,” her appearances on CBS News, or her 2019 destined-for-classic-status book “The Dumb Things Smart People Do With Their Money” – will likely need little convincing that the “The Great Money Reset” deserves a spot on their reading list.

“The Great Money Reset” is firmly planted in the post-pandemic world. It picks up at the point where the reader has already decided to fundamentally reset their life and livelihood, either by choice or unfortunate circumstance.

Reviewed, as linked below.

“The Great Money Reset” is describes the change you must make first in your mindset toward money. The subtitle, “Change your work, change your wealth, change your life.” Describes the results of that properly changed mindset.

The author presents financial principles and illustrates their veracity with the stories of callers to her podcast.

Unlike “Chicken Soup for the Soul”, the book is more than a simple collection of anecdotes; each story is presented to illustrate a point. And that point is get you thinking about the “money reset” you must accomplish either to adjust to an event you just experienced (like a job loss or illness) or to successfully accomplish the dream you have (career change, retire, marry, etc).

I recommend this book for anyone who has experienced or anticipates a dramatic change in their life. Reading it will get you thinking. Armed with a new mindset, you will be able to work more effectively with a financial advisor/coach/consultant to create and execute a specific plan to get you through to success.

Making Life Changes

The pandemic gave many people an impetus to think about their lives, and whether they were satisfied or wanted to make changes. Jill Schlesinger tackles the issue of making life changes through financial decisions. Making changes in the end is not just about what you want to do, but how you can arrange your finances to make the changes possible.

The book has ten chapters addressing issues such as: allocating your resources so you can make a change, taking advantage of the tax code, and more. The author illustrates the principles with anecdotes from people’s lives. My only criticism of the anecdotes is that most of them were about people who already were quite well set up.

The book is easy to read. The financial principles are fairly elementary and explained clearly. Whether you’re contemplating a career changes, getting more education, or planning for retirement, this is book that can give you good advice for making these changes.

I received this book from St. Martin’s Press for this review.

I found a good book by accident

Posted on February 1, 2023 by Jack

It was an accident and later I thought it was a mistake. This is how I remember it. I had finished the book that I was reading on my Kindle. Since it was a Netgalley book, I figured I should review it. But I did not feel like it. I’d just put it off for a few days and look for a new book.

Truth is that I enjoy reading books more than writing reviews. So the next book I picked was The Great Money Reset. Title sounded good but when I started reading it seemed to be about stuff I was not very interested in. I thought I should write to Netgalley that this book was not what I thought and I would neither finish it nor review it. It was probably my mistake in not reading the book description completely.

But I’d give it a few more pages before writing. So I read a bit more and decided I liked this book despite my initial reaction.

I thought this was a financial planning book for the general reader and maybe the reset in the title referred to making changes because changing economic conditions. So I started reading and saw that the focus was on people who wanted to make a big change (or reset) in their life. Often the change involved changing a career from something very financially rewarding to something more personally rewarding.

This did not seem to apply to me who is happily retired and pleased with how his career and personal life worked out. But despite my initial impression, I found a good book by accident. The financial advice was sound and much of it would apply to all of us. The stories of people making major changes in their lives were much more appropriate than my first impression. I found reading these stories interesting. So my thanks to Netgalley for giving me a chance to read this before it was published.

The book is The Great Money Reset: Change Your Work, Change Your Wealth, Change Your Life by Jill Schlesinger. I did enjoy her style of writing and recommend this book.

Jill’s website is https://www.jillonmoney.com/. You might want to look at that before deciding if you think you might want to read this book.

This book covers personal finance for a post-COVID world, specifically, addressing how you may want to adjust your financial plan based on how the pandemic has made you rethink your life. A lot of us found that when our daily life was interrupted, we realized that we weren’t totally happy with the way things were going, and I found this inspirational to hear about some of the big changes others were making. For myself, I don’t feel the need to do a “great money reset”, but I still got ideas for smaller changes I may want to make. I would say about half the book focused on current events and a true reset, and half was more personal finance 102. But it’s well-written, a very easy read with an approachable tone, and includes both advice and personal stories to illustrate the tips.