Can You Really Find Personal Finance eBooks for Free Download?

It can be hard to find any summarized information online for personal finance education without having to give away your email address or buy something. I have been reading a lot of blogs and websites and books, but for some reason, I do enjoy the occasional ebook. Often times, ebooks offer a great compressed version of key information from people’s blogs or books.

Here are some resources that I have found that offer truly free ebooks or PDFs of some very useful information and education on personal finance and a wealthy mindset. (Some of them do want to sell you something also, but you can still get these for free without purchasing anything).

List of Free eBooks on Personal Finance & Motivation

• Dream Manifesto from Thomas Herold -Herold offers an amazing site with topics ranging from Mind and Body to Personal Finance, to Simplifying Your Life. I also find his blog very refreshing. Download his free eBook, The Priciples of Successful Manifesting, right now. [PDF]
• Mint.com found 30 Free eBooks for Personal Finance – This list offers free ebooks from accross the web on topics ranging from personal finance to credit to privacy and consumer advocacy. What can I say? Thanks Mint for compiling such a great list. It will take me a while to get through it.
• The Incidental Economist Offers a link to an eBook on Roth IRAs from Blogger J.D. Roth, host of Get Rich Slowly – Great resource for Roth IRA information.
• Jess & Graeme Stuart Showcase Some Great Wealthy Mind Free eBooks – The Stuarts mainly want you to join their sales team, but the ebooks they have compiled on their site are really nice and timeless for matters of wealth, laws of attraction, and business.

Enjoy, and let me know if you know of other great free reads to add to the list, besides all the wonderful websites and blogs in the financial blogosphere that is!

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Free Timeline Template for iWork (my Mac) or Word

I love and recommend the goal tracker site for setting and measuring progress on your goals. However, I still have a desire to use a high view time line of where I want my life and plans to go in the next few years.

I have had a hard time finding anything decent without paying hundreds of dollars, so, I’ve created my own and decided to share it for anyone that wants to use a visual, big picture format for planning out events, projects or milestones in their own family or business.

UPDATE: Please visit OnTimelines.com for additional cheap ($3.50+) timeline templates for Mac or PC for life planning, wedding planning, childhood milestones, blank timeline templates and more.

Screenshot:

Free Timeline Template:

3 year monthly timeline on (11″ x 8.5″ horizontal)

• Timeline Template (Secure Download on Box.Net) iWork Pages 2009 Version (11 x 8.5 Inch Horizontal)

• Timeline Template (Secure Download on Box.Net) Microsoft Word 2003 Version (11 x 8.5 Inch Horizontal)

HOW TO USE:
To adjust the timeline, simply copy and paste the markers and stretch or format them to fit your needs. Change the text, colors, etc to whatever you’d like. Add notes for additional date specific details.

If you are having trouble with overlaps, select the item that you most recently added, right click and select “Bring to Front”.

I plan to use this and move the big ‘ol “NOW” along as I go and set it as my desktop or something so that I have a visual reminder of where I’m at and where I’m going. Of course my life WILL inevitably vere in different directions, but this way I can acknowledge that change and document what happened and what I’m going to do with the next phase. As I mentioned, I think it really complements the planning work that you can do in the goal tracker online software to get yourself organized!

Here’s to Planning!

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Free Finance Quizes:

Its always a good idea to take the time to test your knowledge to find out where you are with financial education and what you still need to learn.

• Rich Dad Financial IQ Quiz
  I’m pretty sure Robert first coined the term Financial IQ
• MSN – Can You Manage Your Finances?
  Offers some good insight on budgeting
• Bills.com Quiz – Credit, Debt, Budget, Wealth, Life Plan and Resources
  I liked the structure of this, gave me some ideas of areas to focus on including an insurance review, and getting our will notarized. I scored an 81% B on this quiz.
• Money Saving Expert
  15 to 20 minute quiz assesses your saving skills compared to others (UK based however)
• Rutgers Financial Fitness Quiz
  Looks at financial management, saving, investing and yes, impulse shopping habits
• ProProfs Financial Literacy Quiz
  You lost me at CPF and zakatable. I have a lot to learn.

I plan to continue adding to this list.

What other quizes have you tried and found useful?

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