You Only Live Once - by Jason Vitug (Hardcover)

About the Book

"You Only Live Once redefines the millennial mantra into a practice of mindful financial decision-making to engineer one's dream lifestyle. There are numerous books, seminars and apps created to address the issue of financial illiteracy but none highlights the fundamental reason why financial knowledge is important. There is a growing movement among personal finance bloggers and educators to refocus financial education from the "how" to the "why." It's important to address the inner motivations and habits that are preventing many from living their dreams"--

Book Synopsis

Get your finances in order with smart budgeting and money mindfulness

You Only Live Once is the guide to achieving your best life through smart money moves. Before you even begin making a budget, you need to think about why. Where do you see yourself financially in ten years? Five years? This time next year? What does money do for you? Once you know your destination, you can begin charting your course. Step-by-step guidance walks you through the budgeting process, and shows you how to plan your financial path to point toward your goals. You'll learn how to prioritize spending, how to save efficiently, and how to take advantage of simple tools you didn't know you had. Next comes the most important part: taking control. You need to really look at how you perceive and use money day-to-day. Chances are, changing a few habits could give you some breathing room and help you reach your goals sooner.

You work hard for your money, yet there never seems to be enough. You don't need to live like a pauper, but you need to be truly aware of just where your money is going, and why. Financial awareness is the key to a financially secure future, and this book unpacks it all to help you get where you want to go.

• Accept past decisions and articulate your financial goals
• Align your lifestyle with your budget
• Explore your relationship with money
• Re-evaluate financial habits and behaviors

You know you need a budget, but you never seem to get around to doing it. Or maybe you did, but you can never seem to stick to it. Smart planning is a major factor in financial security, and it involves just as much introspection as math. You Only Live Once is more than a budgeting guide--it's a guide to revamping your financial behaviors to achieve the life you want.

From the Back Cover

You may think more money is the key to living the life of your dreams, but in reality, most people are unable to live the lives they want because they lack a clear vision for their life and are setting financial goals that do not align with what they truly value. If you want to rediscover your passions and define your purpose, You Only Live Once is your complete guide to understanding your money mindset and teaching you to manage money with a purpose--to live your dream lifestyle in this lifetime.

In seven years, author Jason Vitug went from cleaning toilets and serving drinks to making decisions in a Silicon Valley boardroom. He had a walk-in closet as big as the room he and his brothers once shared, but he found himself living paycheck to paycheck. Through his personal story of how he redefined the way he sees money to live a more fulfilling life, he shares memorable lessons learned to motivate you to create a lifestyle budget, save purposefully, spend consciously, and rethink retirement. Addressing issues on a much deeper level than nuts-and-bolts financial plans, this revolutionary guidebook sheds light on the behaviors and spending habits that shape a person's money mindset. By enhancing your approach to money, you can avoid the irrational financial decision making undermining your rational goals. You can make actual progress your very first day with:

• A step-by-step process for assessing your spending habits and how to improve them to benefit from the power of time
• Focused exercises enabling you to identify your unique financial goals and create a customized savings strategy to turn your vision for your life into reality
• A concrete framework for clarifying the values shaping your life, increasing your income, and spending money with the purpose of materializing your dreams

Money isn't a goal--it's a resource you need to live the life you see for yourself, and You Only Live Once shows you how to efficiently use your wealth to create and sustain the lifestyle you want.

About the Author

JASON VITUG is the founder of Phroogal, a financial -education start-up and lifestyle brand empowering millennials to live their dream lifestyles through financial knowledge. He is the promoter of the Smile Lifestyle movement, based on a belief that experiential and purposeful living can be achieved through informed financial decision making.