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    No Debt Zone: Your 9 Step Guide To a Debt Free Life
    No Debt Zone: Your 9 Step Guide To a Debt Free Life
    No Debt Zone: Your 9 Step Guide To a Debt Free Life
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    No Debt Zone: Your 9 Step Guide To a Debt Free Life

    By Ashley Brewster

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    This 9 step guide is exactly how a millennial paid off all of her debt in just 13 short months. These are steps you need to help you live and thrive instead of survive. It's time to stop living paycheck to paycheck.If you have been struggling with your finances, now is the time to take control of your money and eliminate your debt for good.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAshley Brewster
    Release dateSep 7, 2019
    ISBN9780463927793
    No Debt Zone: Your 9 Step Guide To a Debt Free Life

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      No Debt Zone - Ashley Brewster

      NO DEBT ZONE

      Your 9 Step Guide to a Debt Free Life

      ASHLEY BREWSTER

      Copyright © 2019 Ashley Brewster

      All rights reserved.

      DISCLAIMER: I am not associated with any firm, business, or association. The concepts presented in this book are from my own research and personal opinions. I am not a financial planner or advisor.

      CONTENTS

      Acknowledgements

      Introduction

      Step 1 – Assess Where You Are

      Step 2 – Your Financial Statement

      Step 3 – Create a Neat Spending Plan

      Step 4 – Decrease Your Expenses

      Step 5 – Raise Your Income

      Step 6 – Save One Month of Fixed Expenses or $2,000

      Step 7 – Create a Debt Pay Off Plan

      Step 8 – Save Six Months of Expenses

      Step 9 – Invest in Assets and the Proper Insurance

      About the Author

      ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

      I want to thank everyone who ever made an impact on my life. I want to especially thank my parents, Alfred and Renee Brewster, for always providing me with a life that encouraged and inspired me to do better. I want to also thank my godmother, Carol Wade, for her years of financial education to make me believe that wealth was possible for me.

      I also want to thank you for reading! I hope you learn something that completely changes your financial future!

      INTRODUCTION

      Is all debt bad debt? This question is often misleading. The question you should be asking yourself is, how many years of my life will I spend paying it back? If the answer is longer than two years, you truly cannot afford the purchase. The world makes you believe that good debt is what you use to acquire assets. But the only winners are the lenders. We have been misled into financial prisons disguised as mortgages, car notes, and student loans. These are all debts that are considered good by societal standards with the idea that these types of debt provide tax benefits or advantages in life. But at what cost? When you cannot make the payments, whether you have good debt or bad debt, the outcome is the same; financial ruin.

      A job is supposed to be a means to an end. A job was never supposed to be an end to your dreams or what you did until you die due to debt.

      We often get too comfortable in what others think we should have according to the false realities that are showcased on social media. Once we stop caring about the opinions of others, not only will our self-esteem increase but so will our net worth.

      The purpose of this book is to help you create your own, personal no debt zone. I will teach you how to manage your debt, and then eliminate your debt. The less debt you have, the more likely you are to become financially free. The more financially free you are, the better off your life will be. Ask yourself, if I did not have debt, would my job and the stress it brings be necessary?

      I have a plan for you. A plan that will change your life. In this 9 Step Plan, I will teach you how to become completely debt free for the rest of your life. This process will only take up to 60 months to complete. Within 24 months, you will be consumer debt free. I will explain consumer debt in depth later. It is time to buy back your freedom, but your freedom is 100 percent dependent upon you.

      STEP 1: ASSESS WHERE YOU ARE

      You may think that because I am a millennial that I have never struggled with money or that I have always been financially savvy. That is not the case at all. As a college graduate, I racked up close to $20,000 of debt that I carried right into my early stages of adulthood. During college, I was not concerned about the loans I owed as I did not even know how much money I had borrowed. Although I was a responsible student, I still was not keeping up with my balances. It was not until after I graduated that I made a plan to pay off all my debt balances. First, I had to get organized by accepting that this money had to be paid back no matter how I felt.

      No one makes perfect money decisions all of the time. However, no matter what your situation is, it can be fixed with a plan. The first step is to assess where you are. You must fully embrace your current state and then take charge of your financial health. You have to be very clear about where you are as well as where you want to go.

      I know, this may seem like a defeating task if you have not been the most organized with your finances. Many people go day to day without even checking their bank accounts due to lack of interest or fear of the damage they have done. However, money should not be viewed as a monster but as a tool to live life freely.

      DEBT IS A MINDSET

      Most of the debt you have was the result of your mindset. Look around your house. How many purchased items do you see that used to be needs? All that clutter used to be money. Advertisers have programmed many people into subconsciously believing they must have an item they could not afford. Their tactics encourage consumers to buy things with money they do not have. You did not need that credit card. You could have waited and saved before buying that item. Why pay up to 29 percent in interest on a credit card when you could have been earning 12 percent annual returns in the market? But I need my credit card for emergencies! That purchase was not an emergency. You just did not prepare for it.

      Lenders know most credit card users will forget to pay off their balances every month even when they can afford to do so. Credit cards are not emergency funds. Your own cash should be your emergency fund. You should expect tires to blow, house expenses to occur, a tax bill to be due, and other inconveniences to emerge. You should not hope for an illness or to be laid off, but even these situations should be prepared for. You just lacked patience to build. You did not have to attend that private college. Your local community college or public state colleges provided the same opportunities. You did not need that new car smell; you had a $2,000 car budget. You should have bought the car your bank account said you could afford. You did not need that big house in the suburbs if you could not put down at least 20 percent before acquiring that mortgage. As you can see, most debt is because of lack

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