Get Unstuck

Get your finances sorted and create a life not limited by money

Does managing your money leave you feeling stressed, overwhelmed, or anxious? Are you looking for tactics and strategies to get on top of your money and get ahead faster? In Get Unstuck, bestselling author Ben Nash covers the three key frameworks you can use to create a winning money mindset, make saving and investing easy, and get the results you want. Discover how your thoughts and emotions influence your money behaviours and spending, and learn how you can hack your thinking to set yourself up for financial success.

The truth is that success with money is simple. You need to spend less than you earn — and start investing intelligently. We all know that isn’t as easy as it sounds. But having the right systems in place will make your progress easier. In this book, you’ll learn the money behaviours you need for true financial security. You’ll develop the thinking you need to make your money actually work for you — and build the systems that will help you plan, save, and invest. All while you live well today.

With Get Unstuck, you’ll learn how to:

• Overcome information overload, procrastination, and analysis paralysis
• Set up your banking so it’s easier to save more WHILE you spend guilt-free
• Get started investing — and avoid mistakes and setbacks
• Create a clear and easy-to-follow plan for the financial future you want

You don’t need to know everything about money right now. You just need to know enough to take your next step. Get Unstuck will help you take that step with confidence.

About the Author ix

Acknowledgements xiii

Preface xv

Introduction xvii

Section 1: Structure 1

Chapter 1 Don’t think yourself poor 5

Chapter 2 It pays to tame your brain 29

Chapter 3 Why you don’t have a six-pack 47

Chapter 4 Why you suck at saving 61

Section 2: Strategy 83

Chapter 5 You can’t have it all 87

Chapter 6 Know your knowns and unknowns 97

Chapter 7 Saving sucks 111

Chapter 8 WTF is financial advice? 127

Section 3: Solutions 149

Chapter 9 Death and taxes 153

Chapter 10 Don’t shoot the lights out 171

Chapter 11 The house always wins (or does it?) 195

Chapter 12 Don’t be old and poor 225

Chapter 13 Reality, roadblocks and results 243

Take action with confidence 255

What’s the next step? 257

Bibliography 259

BEN NASH is Australia’s most followed financial adviser and the founder of Pivot Wealth, Australia’s most awarded financial advice company. Ben is the host of the Mo Money podcast, the bestselling author of Replace Your Salary by Investing and the lead financial educator for leading Australian corporates such as the National Rugby League (NRL). Over the last fifteen years, Ben has helped his clients create over a billion dollars in wealth with his practical and easy-to-follow advice.

Get your finances sorted and create a life not limited by money

Does managing your money leave you feeling stressed, overwhelmed or anxious? In Get Unstuck, bestselling author Ben Nash shares the key frameworks and tactics you can use to create a winning money mindset, make saving and investing easy, and get the results you want faster and easier.

In this book, you’ll learn how your thinking, habits and mindset influence your saving and investing behaviours and results, and how you can hack your thinking and set yourself up for financial success.

With Get Unstuck, you’ll discover how to:

• overcome information overload, procrastination and analysis paralysis
• set up your banking so it’s easier to save more WHILE you spend guilt-free
• get started investing — and avoid common mistakes and setbacks
• create a clear, easy-to-follow plan for the financial future you want.

When you know the rules of the game and how to use them to your advantage, instead of working harder for your money, you can get your money working harder for you. Through Get Unstuck, you’ll learn and build the systems now that will help you save, invest and plan for the future you want — all while you live well today.