Set for Life

By: Scott Trench

Narrated by: Scott Trench

Length: 8 hrs and 24 mins

Publisher's Summary

Set yourself up for life as early as possible and enjoy life on your terms!

Are you tied to a nine-to-five workweek? Do you work hard making someone else rich? Are you financially free - the sort of free that ensures you spend the best part of your day and week, and the best years of your life, doing what you want? Would you like to retire from wage-paying work within 10 years? Why not build and follow a plan that allows you to live the life of your dreams?

This isn't about saving up a nest egg. It's not about setting aside money for a "rainy day" or just accumulating an emergency fund. It's about building out a Financial Runway. It's about creating enough readily accessible wealth that you can survive without work for a year. Then five years. Then for life. Set for Life is a three-step guide that gives listeners the fiscal confidence they need to achieve early financial freedom. Listeners will learn how to:

• Save more income - 50+ percent of it, while still having fun
• Double or triple your income in three to five years
• Secure "real" assets and avoid "false" ones that destroy wealth

Here's to fiscal confidence, here's to giving up a nine-to-five job, and here's to being set for life!

©2017 Scott Trench (P)2017 Scott Trench

Loved the audiobook, very insightful

This book has helpful information from the average earners standpoint. Definitely something to listen to over and over. Buy the book to have on hand if you ever need to go back and review the information

8 of 8 people found this review helpful

Set for American life

This book is mainly geared for the average American office worker with little or no understanding of personal finance. However the book have some main good points and will set the foundation for anybody interested in improve its personal finances. The best key points I like from the book are: focus on lower your mayor fixed expenses (housing), clean up any bad debt before you start to invest or acquire any good debt. Understand what your goals are. Review your net worth regularly. Understand how you are spending your time and how that will impact your finances in the long term. Understand how leverage can accelerate you to faster reach financial freedom. I think the best advice from the book is about the false idea / trap of stock picking as a way to reach financial freedom which I think many investor experience over a lifetime. The bad thing with the book is that it is heavy geared towards American people/context and based on the authors own experience and circumstances. Example of a strange advice given in the book: "if you cannot house hack the move to another city where you can". Should both me and my wife quit our jobs, move to another country/city just so that we can house hack ? just becomes house hacking was working for the author does not mean it will work for all.

47 of 57 people found this review helpful

Escape the matrix!

This book is critical to erase the brainwashing that society implants in everyone.

The strategies outlined by Scott will truly help a lot of people that seek to escape the rat race set themselves up you be financially independent.

Hopefully I can get all my friends to read this book.

3 of 3 people found this review helpful

Thank you Scott Trench

Scott,


You were talking directly to me in this book. I think you outlined the American Dream wonderfully. Through large marketing campaigns from Big corporations we have been taught that we need to consume to have happiness. This couldn’t be further from the truth because in reality, we create a lifestyle that is difficult to support without working your typical wage paying job.

You have given me the inspiration to purse more in life and take calculated risks. I am aspiring to build a financial runaway ($25-$40k). With little debt, $5k car loan and no student loans, I am in perfect position to do something more risky, Working for a startup or a sales position that has more ability to increase my income in the short term. I am currently working “the safe job” at a large multinational corporation as a financial analyst. I took this job because of advice I was given . Now, I see the way to give myself a chance at pursing my dreams and not someone else’s is by taking a “career risks”. It is less risky when you have your own capital to support yourself.

Thank you. I still have a lot to learn, but your book leaves me craving more knowledge and wanting more answers. This is what a good novel does!

3 of 3 people found this review helpful

An Excellent Money Management Book

Any additional comments?

I'm an avid reader of this type of book and content. I've read GoCurryCracker, Mr. Money Mustache, The Millionaire Fastlane, I Will Teach You To Be Rich, and a bunch of other books and blogs. This one is among the absolute best. There aren't too many revolutionary ideas here, but they are packaged in a way that is easy to understand and fairly comprehensive. I also loved that the author narrated himself and he does a great job. There are several absolute gems in this book. Awesome read.

11 of 13 people found this review helpful

get it!

If you're in your Twentys and thirtys or just got outta high school Not knowing what to do with yourself. Grab this book, this audio! Study it like it's your Bible!!!

3 of 3 people found this review helpful

Thougt Provoking

This book really made me step back and take a deep look at my current financial status and where I want to be. It provides step by step instructions to help you become closer to financial freedom. This book should be a must read for all young adults just finishing high school. What a difference it would have made for me 15 years ago, but snce its never too late, theres still hope for me!

7 of 8 people found this review helpful

Excellent content read with enthusiasm

This book is not only information, but motivating too.

A few things I loved:

-house hacking. Buying a house and renting out rooms is a fantastic way to build wealth.

-comparing spending time to beat the stock market to selling bottles of water outside of a stadium is a great analogy.

-the case for DIYing. You don't need to outsource everything to an expert. You save money and learn.

-fancy degrees earn you more money partially because they lock you into working.

-the cost of commuting. I love that he brings up Mr. Money Moustache's article. I just wish he would have used MMM's best case scenario $.17/mile figure, where the math for commuting still stinks.

24 of 30 people found this review helpful

New angles on building wealth

Very in depth and creative must read if interested in financial freedom. Provides new angles to building wealth thar many other investors haven't talk about.

6 of 7 people found this review helpful

Set your life up for Greatness

Wow was this audible great!

Anyone who wants to put their own luck in their hands & learn tips on living a life of frugality and creating opportunity, this book is for you!

6 of 7 people found this review helpful

wow. best book on finance for me.

awesome book. many tips and tricks for starting out and advance investors. you should read it