Freedom First

True freedom is within your grasp with this powerful wealth creation strategy. Freedom First challenges you to rethink your ideas about how to become financially free. Drawing on historical financial insights as old as Confucius, as well as lessons gleaned from modern psychology and economics, this book explores a counterintuitive approach to wealth creation: if you want to become financially free, you need to become free first. Author Matthew Klan walked away from his professional career and the promise of financial security in the pursuit of freedom. Now a self-made millionaire, Klan reveals his two-part wealth-building principle, and shares stories of others who have harnessed the power of getting free first. This book will enable you to: Learn the counterintuitive financial insights of the rich Understand the traps of not being free: Dependence trap, Debt trap, Income trap Learn how to free yourself from what is holding you back Free up time and energy to unlock your full creative potential Adopt a growth mindset and go beyond the traditional ’passive income‘  approach Whether you’re a millennial or retiree, this book will teach you the wealth generation secrets of the rich and enable you to become financially free now.

Introduction ix Prologue xvii Part I: Putting freedom first 1 1 The primacy of values 3 2 Is it our family’s fault we aren’t rich? 9 3 We can choose what we value 15 4 Dominant Values 21 5 The path of freedom 41 6 Putting freedom first 49 Part II: The traps that come from not being free 67 7 The Dependence Trap 71 8 The Debt Trap 85 9 The Income Trap 109 10 Growth, cycles and the econosystem 131 Part III: Getting free first 155 11 Free from the short term 157 12 Freedom is having more choices 167 13 Buy back your time so you can buy back more time 171 14 Get free, so you can get freer 189 15 Pulling the levers 199 16 Free from tax 213 17 Free to grow 223 18 The path of Freedom First 239 19 Free minds create 243 Index 251