Book Review: Mom to Millionaire
Author: Dr. Margaret Curlew
Writing a book from the First-Person Perspective can be difficult, confusing, even demanding at times, but you don’t have to lose yourself in the *I’s* of the story. There are so many active verbs and objects that can be used to write the same thing with less self-emphasis. Once *I* was able to step past the author of the book and read the content, concepts came to life. Ideologies became relevant. And the actual meat of the story became vividly real.
The concept of saving money to create great wealth is an absolute fact. You don’t create wealth that way. You save money. You spend time. You waste your life worrying about how much you’re saving by not spending anything, and you get caught up in what YOU are doing to save money. Once again, the concept trumps perspective.
Rebound! Please, bounce out of that perspective origin!
And the reality of financial awareness begins to dawn by about the third chapter when she begins to talk about using OPM (other people’s money) to grow your wealth. Adapting the mindset of a Big Money Player means you use the processes to develop your own money mindset and grow your wealth. Big difference from being a saver and pocketing the change.
This concept of growing your net worth and improving your list of assets with your purchases creates a dynamic relevance and adds perspective. She shares the process of growing wealth by realizing, recognizing, and investing in your dreams, then sharing those by inspiring others to invest in your dream too. The persuasion of pulling other people into your dreams and goals implies tribe building and other vast interactive networks that share and build on a given message. The processes she uses in the book are sound, and her recommendations have value. Reading them and comprehending the value is difficult because as I mentioned earlier — she makes the book all about her.
Some writing classes might have been helpful or encouraged, and perhaps an editor with a knack for seeing past the purview of perspective.
Overall the author has a great perspective of what does actually build wealth, and how to use money as a wealth builder, not just as income. Her perspective needed work but when you realize the concept of doing it by yourself, the first-person perspective was navigated rather successfully.
Her conclusion was on target. You have to do what nobody else is willing to do to build the kind of wealth that will allow you to retire without debt, with money in the bank, and with continuing income. Significant mindset analysis of what you expect from yourself and how you think about financial independence can make all the difference in your life outcome. When Curlew said, people of different segments of society act the same, think the same, and behave the same with money, she was exactly right. And to escape those restrictive mindsets you have to think like the kind of person you want to be and use your money in that way to achieve your goals and live your dreams.
There’s never a bad time to access your current position, write some new goals, and do something different with your life.
3.4 stars.