financial freedom 1 course OUTLINE

Module 1: Understanding Money 
1.1. Getting Started - Glad You Are Here
1.2. Emotional Content of Money: Your Money Scripts
1.3. Three Truths about Money: Mr. Money Mustache
1.4. The Savings Rate: When Do You Want Financial Freedom?
1.5. The Seven Stages of Financial Maturity
1.6. You Know Everything Already
1.7. Douglas’s Story: Financial Freedom at age 42

Module 2: Reducing Consumption 
2.1. Status Roles and the Tiny Details Exaggeration Syndrome
2.2. Stress and Status in Capitalism
2.3. Poverty, Race, Status, and Conspicuous Consumption
2.4. The Story of Stuff
2.5. Voluntary Simplicity
2.6. What Is Enough? The Concept of Lagom
2.7. For Fun: Why We Buy Clothes (Bonus)
2.8. Let’s Start Thinking about Reducing Spending
2.9. BONUS: Stories of People Who Reached FIRE
2.10. Sneak Peak into Module 3: Getting Rich is More Mental Than It is Tactical

Module 3: Your Financial Manifesto and Budget
3.1. Prelude: The Stockdale Paradox - Financial Self-Determination
3.2. Vision, Attitudes - Behaviors and Tactics
3.3. Inspiration through Your Financial Manifesto
3.4. Owning Your Vision of the Future
3.5. Life Energy: Your Money or Your Life
3.6. Internal Locus of Control and Brain Food
3.7. Your Financial Mindset is Your Financial Destiny: Attitudes and Behaviors of the Millionaire Next Door
3.8. Loving the Miracle of Compound Interest
3.9. Get Rid of your Debt First!
3.10. Choose a Budgeting Tool and Link Your Accounts
3.11. Getting Real with Numbers: Monthly Budgeting of Needs, Wants, and Bullshit
3.12. Implementing FF1 with SMART Goals
3.13. The Money Scripts of the Rich
3.14. This is the End: AHA Moments?
3.15. BONUS: The Goal Is Not Knowledge. The Goal Is Change.