Smart and Simple Financial Strategies for Busy People, Quinn Jane Bryant

To start with, she tells you to forget all the complicated stuff the financial industry sells. You dont need it, it costs too much, and some of it is downright bad. Its designed to make the banks, brokers, and insurance companies rich, not you.

The best ideas (a super-short list!) are simple, low in cost, and easy to use. Theyre also sophisticated and smart. The strategies shown here are followed by some of the most successful planners and money managers around today, yet theyre something everyone can understand. Theyll give you what you need from your money -- regular savings, financial security, long-term investment growth, personal control, and best of all, peace of mind.

Once youve set up a No Worry plan, you wont have to pay much attention to it. The choices youll find here are all good ones. All you have to do is arrange for automatic payments and contributions and then get on with the rest of your busy life. You can focus your energies on your job, family, leisure, and friends, secure in the knowledge that your finances are okay.

Heres what youll do on the No Worry plan:

• Save more money without feeling pinched


• Get rid of debt the automatic way


• Keep yourself safe, with the right amount of insurance at the lowest cost


• Zero in on the right mortgage, every time


• Pick the best college savings plan for your kids


• Understand your finances, in ways you never did before


• Find the smartest and simplest ways of investing money, to earn superior returns over the long run