How To Control Your Personal Finances: Earning More Beyond the paycheck is a guide to take control of your finances. It is going to help countless reader's budget their funds successfully, rein in debt and build a strong foundation for the future. It also covers the basics to create a solid financial plan, build your network over time, emphasizes paying off debt versus leverage, and focusing on your biggest investment: your career. This book will help you assess your financial style and encourage you to stick with it; change, as the author says, rarely happens, so in a crisis you will tend to revert to your bad habits. You have to create a plan that helps you avoid those bad times so you aren't tempted to make the serious mistakes most of us do.